CMC Presents! features outstanding music and educational events such as “Concerts with Conversation” with internationally acclaimed artists (in partnership with SF Performances), concerts by our award-winning faculty, master classes, clinics, and special CMC productions such as our annual Performathon, “Field Day at CMC.”
CMC piano faculty member Jon Jang presents: Come Sunday:The Music of Duke Ellington in Celebration of his 120th Birthday Anniversary, featuring the works of Duke Ellington. Because the title “Come Sunday” refers to a recording by Duke Ellington and Mahalia Jackson celebrating African American people’s struggle to have their own church, the program will also feature songs that Mahalia Jackson sang in the context of the black church.
The Shenson Faculty Concert Series 2019 is lighting up the stage with four free concerts featuring CMC’s talented faculty and their collaborators! The concerts spans genres and instrumentation, encompassing classical, jazz, gospel, neo-classical, and avant-garde genres. These concerts are free and open to the public.
CMC piano, guitar, and theory faculty member Jono Kornfeld performs with the band Hop Sauce. Hop Sauce is a concoction of instrumental groove, funk and jazz, balancing improvisation with composition and a knack for fun, tasty jams. The core trio (Jeff Cleland on bass, Chris Gamper on drums and Jono Kornfeld on guitar) has a rich history of playing together going back nearly 30 years. Hop Sauce’s first CD, “Le Tasty,” features their diverse compositional prowess blended with an obvious love for in-the-moment playing and nimble improvisation.
This concert features the rarely-enjoyed quintet version of the group, with Simon Rochester on keyboard, and Daniel Heffez on saxophone.
This faculty concert series is made possible by support from the Shenson Foundation.
Woodwinds faculty David Steinberg presents works that feature a combination of live instrumental performances paired with electronic and sampled elements and will feature works that are inspired by jazz, R&B, gospel, musique concrete, and avant garde. The program is an exploration of the concept of “lifestyle” and puts forth the hypothesis that the popularity of lifestyle journalism and content is due to the need to fill the void that traditional and now largely-unattainable sources of meaning such as owning a home, raising a large family, or working in a field that provides both a strong sense of purpose and a living wage, have left behind. By attempting to imbue consumerist habits with the pretense of social activism or spiritual enrichment, lifestyle journalism and content foster a soothing but ultimately artificial sense of purpose.
This faculty concert series is made possible by support from the Shenson Foundation.
Every 2nd Saturday of the month, CMC and Tango dance faculty member Sonja Riket host a monthly Milonga (Argentine Tango social dance gathering) with a drop-in class and dancing to Tango music from the Golden Era and beyond. This Milonga series will include live music and dance performances by local and international Tango guests.
Enjoy dancing in the beautiful Victorian concert hall with smooth wooden floor and outdoor patio! Come to listen and watch or join in the dance. All ages are welcome!
Parking garage at 21st St & Bartlett and lot Capp St (b/w 19th& 20th). Also street parking at Folsom St., 2 blocks away
More info: Sonja Riket 415.661.1852; www.tangorevolution.blogspot.com; www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
Opera Parallèle presents Xochitl and the Flowers in collaboration with Community Music Center
Based on real-life events in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, Xochitl and the Flowers tells of a family’s determination to put down roots in a new country, while still preserving the heritage on their homeland. Xochitl and the Flowers is part of Opera Parallèle’s acclaimed annual ‘Hands-on-Opera’ program, which features children center stage as full project participants and performers. Community Music Center’s faculty and students from the Children’s Chorus and Coro Cámara collaborate in this production.
Reserve your free ticket HERE.
Opera Parallèle presents Xochitl and the Flowers in collaboration with Community Music Center
Based on real-life events in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, Xochitl and the Flowers tells of a family’s determination to put down roots in a new country, while
still preserving the heritage on their homeland. Xochitl and the Flowers is part of Opera Parallèle’s acclaimed annual ‘Hands-on-Opera’ program, which features children center stage as full project participants and performers. Community Music Center’s faculty and students from the Children’s Chorus and Coro Cámara collaborate in this production.
Reserve your free ticket HERE.
Opera Parallèle presents Xochitl and the Flowers in collaboration with Community Music Center
Based on real-life events in San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, Xochitl and the Flowers tells of a family’s determination to put down roots in a new country, while
still preserving the heritage on their homeland. Xochitl and the Flowers is part of Opera Parallèle’s acclaimed annual ‘Hands-on-Opera’ program, which features children center stage as full project participants and performers. Community Music Center’s faculty and students from the Children’s Chorus and Coro Cámara collaborate in this production.
Reserve your free ticket HERE.
