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First Note Launches This Fall
After 3 years of researching, consulting, planning and testing, Year 1 of the First Note music curriculum will be offered in several classrooms in the Seattle area. Most recent additions include Hawthorne Elementary, The Kindergarten After School Academy, and St. Paul's, St. Therese and The Visitation Catholic School in the Seattle Archdiocese. For 20 -30 minutes each week, 4- to 8-year-old students will be treated to a fun and engaging learning experience right along with their teachers (yes, teachers, you will have fun with this also). Students will take a trip each week to the First Note Music Store and join Miss Melody, the Music Friends and a surprise visiting cultural guest for their new word, song and instrument introduced at each of the 30 lessons.
If you would like more information about how you offer First Note in your school, you can contact us at info@cmfinc.org or 425.250.2390.
CMF Welcomes Linda Sherran
CMF is fortunate in welcoming Linda Sherran as our incoming volunteer Executive Director. With the completion of the development phase of the program, the Foundation is now focused on assisting those schools that aren't as fortunate so that ALL young students can have the First Note music curriculum if they wish .
Linda is currently the Major and Planned Gifts Officer for Kindering, Washington State's largest and oldest neurodevelopmental center for infants and children with special needs. Prior to joining Kindering, Linda spent 25 years as a fundraiser for national symphony orchestras and major cultural institutions. These included various positions at the Seattle Symphony, The New York Philharmonic, The Baltimore Symphony, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Carnegie Hall, The Little Orchestra Society, Lincoln Center Theater, Seattle Arts Museum, and The Morris County Arts Council. Linda is passionate about bringing music into the lives of all children and has raised millions of dollars to make music education programs available to underserved children coast to coast.
Linda also spent a stint in music management and booking, working with such artists as Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Phil Collins, Rosemary Clooney, and members of the Count Basie Orchestra, among others. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Goucher College, where she was the Rosenberg Scholar in Music and studied with the first flutist of The Baltimore Symphony. She also holds a Master of Art's Degree in Performing Arts Management from New York University. Welcome aboard Linda!
Congratulations Eric Booth!
Teaching artist and CMF Advisor Eric Booth was awarded an honorary degree from the New England Conservatory as he addressed graduating students, families and and friends at the 141st
Comencement Exercises last May.
He begins with, "Hello, Everyone. I am all wired up like Madonna with my headset mic, and was just informed it isn't working. So it is back to the podium for me, with this note to self-the first moment you think for a flash that you're Madonna, remember, you're not...."
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