News & Events

April 2009

NEW: ELM is a proud partner to San Pedro Elementary School’s Healthy Start Collaborative

NEW: ELM is consulting to San Rafael’s Heads-Up Foundation on their initiative to provide a music teacher for every 4th and 5th grader in the seven elementary schools in the district.

NEW GRANT:  ELM was recently awarded a Marin Arts Council grant to bring live music and workshops to Pickleweed Park Community Center.

ELM Summer Camp
Stay tuned for news about ELM's 2009 Two-Week Summer Music Camp in late July/early August!

The Marin Independent Journal, 5/11/2008, by Beth Ashley

Larkspur oboist pursues her dream of spreading love for music

"MORE THAN a dozen youngsters in San Rafael's Latino community are learning about the joys of music, thanks to a Larkspur woman with a dream.

"Jane Kramer, 52, an oboist with the American Philharmonic/Sonoma, is teaching fourth- and fifth-graders how to play, listen to and appreciate classical music in a Pickleweed Park Community Center classroom..."

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“I think today was a good day because I got to learn a new song. It was a beautiful song.”
(Daniel, age 9)