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Annual Fund Drive
Help CMC create a harmonious and vibrant community with your year-end gift

At this time of year we ask Oregon residents, if you have not recently given, to help us by making a year-end donation to the non-profit Community Music Center, Inc.

We rely on gifts from you, our individual donors, for keeping doors to music education open to all, regardless of the student’s financial status.

Learn more, and donate today. Contributions to CMC Inc. are tax deductible to the full extent of the law.

You can also help CMC while you shop, at no cost to you:

• Shop online at Amazon Smile and link your account to CMC Inc.
• Shop at FredMeyer stores and link your rewards card to CMC Inc. (TIP: If you last linked your card before July 1 2016 you have to relink it.)

Thank you for making the gift of music available to all!

Winter Term 2018
Start the new year with play (or song!)

We have classes in January for all ages, available for registration now. If you are not yet enrolled at CMC, view the full catalog online at www.communitymusiccenter.org, and give us a call at 503-823-3177 to join in a class - you'll be warmly welcomed to any new beginning activity, or continuing classes if meeting the prerequisites. Use the links below to see the class lists for each age group.

• Preschool Age Music
• Music Classes for Youth and Individual Lessons (PDF)
• Classes for High School Students and Adults

We offer up to 90% scholarship for music at CMC (application PDF). Full-scholarship lessons available at Rosewood Music Program.

Discount Ticket Offer
$5 Off O'Connor Christmas for CMC students/families

Thanks to allclassical.org, CMC students and their families can enjoy "Mark O'Connor's An Appalachian Christmas" featuring the O'Connor Band with other guest performers, at $5 off the normal ticket price.

The concert is a fundraiser for the radio station. Info: https://www.allclassical.org/spotlights/an-appalachian-christmas-3/ Use REJOICE as the discount code.

NW Piano Trio @ CMC
Two concerts in January to benefit the Center

Hear CMC instructors Heather Mastel-Lipson (violin) and Hannah Hillebrand (cello) with pianist Susan McDaniel perform chamber music in two concerts that benefit CMC’s need-based scholarships & other programs. Learn more about this impressive group at northwestpianotrio.com. Call CMC at 503-823-3177 or visit communitymusiccenter.org for more information and reservations.

• Children’s Concert, 3 PM. Suggested donation $5 per family.
• Evening Concert, 7:30 PM. Admission: $10 adults/$7 children age 12+ with advance reservations. At the door: $15 adults/$10 youth.

Student Schedule Reminder:

Winter Break (no classes or lessons)

December 18 - January 1

Office hours vary: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/467903

Drop-in Practice Hours: https://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/467764

Winter Term 2018

Private Lessons continue from January 2

Group Classes start the week of January 8

For a full list of CMC holidays and office hours, see: http://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/article/467903

Most classes are either school-year-long or automatically roll over from Fall to Winter to Spring (with tuition due by the first week of each new term), except Early Childhood music and Senior Piano, which require re-registration to continue.

Musical Greeting
CMC students send a message of harmony for the holidays

KBPS AM 14050 is recording area schools performing holiday music, and the CMC Orchestra III just finished their live taping. Listen to the KBPS Musical Greeting Card on December 24th and 25th on AM-1450 and kbps.am. Info: https://www.pps.net/Page/5380

Job Opening
Early Childhood Music teacher sought

PP&R is looking for a qualified early childhood classroom music teacher for the Rosewood Music Program in East Portland. Please see details.