From our friends at the Community Music Center on Capp Street:
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CMC is buzzing with students preparing for end-of-year concerts. It’s a great time of year to be here. A few other highlights this month at CMC: our last Sunday Open House and Jam Sessions event of the school year on June 7, and the final Shenson Faculty Concert Series performance by The Gestaltish Ensemble on June 27! Read on for details… Monday, June 1 at Saturday, June 6 at 7:30pm Sunday, June 7 at 1:00pm Sunday, June 7 from 3:00-5:00pm SCHEDULE: Jazz Jam with Harvey Robb (Sax, flute, clarinet and Richmond District Jazz Ensemble). Latin Music Jam with Miguel Govea (trumpet and Accordion faculty) and Javier Cabanillas (percussion/Mission District Young Musicians Program) Music for Children with Irene Chagall Instrument Petting Zoo with Chris Borg and other CMC faculty and students Piano and Voice Working Together with Erik Walker (piano faculty) and Nicole Lumetta (voice faculty) Strings and Chamber Music Repertoire Workshop with Sin-Tung Chiu (violin/viola faculty and chamber music coach) with Paul Dab (piano faculty) Piano Lesson Demos with Kristine Zhang Guitar and Percussion Lesson Demos with Pepe Jacobo Tuesday, June 9 at 1:30pm Thursday, June 11 at 1:30pm Saturday, June 13 at 7:30pm Sunday, June 14 at 1:00pm Monday, June 15 at 7:00pm (Doors at 6:45pm) Wednesday, June 17 at 7:30pm Sunday, June 21 at 1:00pm Friday, June 26 from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm FREESaturday, June 27 at 8:00pm
The Shenson Faculty Concert Series Presents: Gestaltish Gestaltish is a Bay Area ensemble that explores improvised music in both playful and methodical ways with a surprising array of results. Performers Rachel Condry (clarinet), Gretchen Jude (voice), Jacob Peck (guitar) and Jennifer Wilsey (percussion) have diverse musical backgrounds and met while working with Fred Frith in the Mills College Improvisation ensemble. Since 2012, they have been shaping and exploring sounds to create evocative yet open-ended musical experiences. Using game structures as temporal architectures in which to play, Gestaltish deeply listen to each other and their surroundings, encapsulating sonic moments and reinvigorating the notion of free improvisation with unexpected instrumentation and intuitions. The audience will have the opportunity to determine the program by choosing from a “menu” of improvisation approaches this evening and all are encouraged to attend the free improvisation workshop with the ensemble the night before. Read an interview with CMC’s Rachel Condry to get a window into this evening’s performance and “trans-idiomatic” improvisation! Special thanks to the Shenson Foundation for making this concert free to the public. FREE Sunday, June 28 at 4:00pm |
Unless otherwise noted, performances take place at
Community Music Center’s Mission District Branch 544 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA (415) 647-6015 www.sfcmc.org |