News & Events
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Mon, 04/26/2010
Students from St. James Elementary School sang the National Anthem along with other selected San Francisco schools at the San Francisco Giants baseball game to a crowd of 26,011. -
Mon, 04/26/2010
ETM-Bay Area staff, supporters, guests, students, parents, and friends celebrated our work restoring music education to the curriculum of schools serving at-risk populations at our first annual benefit at the historic Women's Building in San Francisco's Mission District. The event highlighted the successes of our programs, and provided guests with a chance to experience the joy of listening to students from our partner schools and our consulting project, the Dominican Schools Music Project (DSMP), perform. -
Tue, 02/23/2010
Peres Teaching Artist Sings on Grammy Award Winning Recording
We are pleased to announce that ETM-Bay Area's Teaching Artist at Peres Elementary, Christopher Winslow, sang on the Grammy Award Winning recording of Mahler 8 with the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus. -
Tue, 02/23/2010
ETM-Bay Area would like to recognize the exemplary volunteer work of Sarah Quan for her efforts to organize the silent auction for our upcoming benefit. -
Mon, 01/25/2010
December is a time when the holiday spirit surrounds us with the sights of decorations, the smells of Christmas trees, and the sounds or carols. At the schools we serve, December was a time to showcase student learning from the first half of the school year through winter concerts. -
Mon, 01/25/2010
ETM-Bay Area attended the Volunteer Center’s Board Match event on January 12th as one of over 100 participating nonprofit organizations. The Board Match is a free job-fair style event aiming to pair the over 1,000 attendees interested in board service with a nonprofit organization serving a mission matching their own. -
Mon, 01/25/2010
ETM-Bay Area program staff members joined Orff master teacher Doug Goodkin and dedicated music instructors from around the Bay Area for a daylong workshop at the San Francisco School. Teaching artists from both of our partner schools attended the workshop, which provided our instructors with an opportunity to learn new, exciting teaching methods that they can use in the classroom. -
Mon, 11/23/2009
Coronado Students Receive Star Treatment
On Thursday, November 19, 2009, kindergarten and fourth grade students at Coronado Elementary got a first hand look at how music becomes a part of Hollywood films when LA- based singer/songwriter Lisbeth Scott visited ETM-Bay Area music classes.
Lisbeth showed the students clips featuring her music from Shrek and Narnia from the earliest stages of production beginning with storyboards to the final product with complete musical accompaniment to demonstrate the impacts sound and music have in transforming and enhancing the mood of a film. Ms. Scott is currently working to promote the ETM mission, and on tour with a portion of her proceeds benefitting our affiliate organization, ETM-LA. -
Mon, 11/23/2009
Chase Community Giving is sponsoring a grant program that gives you the power to decide who receives funding via Facebook. It's free and easy! -
Mon, 11/23/2009
Associate Celebrates One Year with ETM-Bay Area
ETM-Bay Area’s Marketing and Development Associate Charlie Cohn is celebrating one year working with us. We would like to thank Charlie for his hard work behind the scenes efforts necessary to effectively actualize our mission.
A donation of $150 sponsors a child's music education for an entire year!
Planned for 2009-10:
- Partnerships with 2 schools and consulting support to 7 additional schools serving over 2,700 children in the Bay Area!
Quotes
- My music class is happy, excited, and colorful. I chose those three because that's what I see when I come into the classroom.- A sixth grade student describes the music class at Peres