Dear MTAC-SF Branch Members,

Here is an opportunity to give your students, both adults and children, performing experience and to do a good deed, all at once! Music teachers are also welcome to perform, too!! Come and represent the Branch as we contribute to community outreach.

The MTAC is giving two volunteer one-hour concerts for seniors who reside at the Jewish Home of San Francisco, in the Frank Family Lounge, at 302 Silver Avenue. Click here: Jewish Home of San Francisco I've been informed that the students will play on a grand piano. The dates are Sunday, January 22, 2012, at 2:00 p.m.and Sunday, May 6, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. Both concerts are one hour in length.

To enroll your students, please mail the following information to me for each performer:

• The name of the student.
• The instrument (i.e., piano, voice, violin, etc.) the student will be playing.
• In the case of ensembles, the names and ages and instruments of all performers.
• If the child is a student, their age on recital day, or "adult student" (21 years old and over).
• The piece or pieces he or she is performing, with as much detail as possible (movement, opus number, key signature etc.), and most important, the LENGTH OF EACH PIECE.
• The cell phone number for the student or family member. If someone turns out to be late on concert day, I need to be able to make contact.

The deadline for email enrollment is the Friday before the concert at midnight.

If there are more than hour's worth of submissions, students will be accepted in the order in which they apply.

If there are less than an hour's worth of submissions, I may ask students to play several pieces each, as the Branch has promised the Jewish Home 60 minutes worth of music.

Many schools and religious organizations require that their students do a certain number of community service hours per semester. Please inquire. This concert could help your students to fulfill their community service commitments. It's rewarding to play, too, even if there is no reason other than to be kind and musical.

Please volunteer! I look forward to your applications.

Best wishes,

Bonnie Knight, MTAC-SF Branch Community Service Chair

Our branch has sponsored an after-school keyboard program in the elementary schools for over sixty years. These group lessons, which have been minimally priced and in some cases fully or partially subsidized, have introduced children to the world of music via training on the keyboard. Many of the youngsters who began in our classes have gone on to private study and become outstanding musicians. At the end of the school year, high achievers have performed at the After School Keyboard Education Recital.

The fully or partially subsidized classes were funded by Ross McKee Foundation and the Crescent Porter Hale Foundation.