Decatur Fall Break, Sept 13 through 17
Are you a Decatur parent looking for a day camp that provides a meaningful set of activities during the September 13-17 fall break? Look no further.
A Note from the Faculty
Welcome to the CMC of Atlanta On our site you will find information about the vibrant educational programs we offer to children and adults through our neighborhood music schools in Little 5 Points, Decatur, and Dunwoody.
We encourage you to take the time to reflect on what you are seeking from a music education, and we hope you will carefully compare your desires with our programs in Classical, Jazz, Rock, and Roots music.
In short, we're offering you the opportunity to encounter and to learn how to develop beauty through an authentic musical practice in a community of faculty, students and their families. Beauty is not to be confused with "pretty"-- because let's be frank, beautiful things usually come with a bit of awe, sometimes rough edge, and often even hilarity or levity. Beauty also varies from one style to another: it is, as they should say, in the ear of the beholder.
Interested in Lessons? Learn More About Our Program
From the opening of our first Center in Little 5 Points, we've been committed to realizing a single pedagogical goal: providing students of all ages and varied backgrounds the opportunity to cultivate a genuine musical practice in the style of their own choosing... or making. We honor discipline and hard work, but we also embrace the critical role fun plays in learning and making music.
Spring Festival Performance Wrap Up
Featured Video :: Music Center Students at the 2010 Dogwood Festival
Through our Core Program, we prepare students of all ages to perform with one another in venues and contexts appropriate to the chosen style of music. Spring is festival season in Atlanta, and we've just wrapped up two months of student and faculty appearances at six area festivals.
Atlanta's Got Roots
In the fall of 2009, the Music Center expanded program offerings to include a new track in Roots Music. The Roots Department provides students the opportunity to study traditional American music, including folk, bluegrass, country roots, and Old-Time, under the guidance of a faculty who actively perform in these fields. Leah Calvert, the Director of the new Department, sings and fiddles with the Dappled Grays, an Atlanta-based band whose latest album, Doin' My Job (2007) made it into the top ten in the Sirius/XM bluegrass charts.
Now available: lessons in fiddling, bluegrass and other Roots style singing, banjo, mandolin, guitar picking, and accordion
Listen :: the Dappled Grays' Music Box
Read more :: Americana jam hosted by our Roots Department at Twain's in Decatur
Featured Events
-
The Moving Image 2010
Music Video Day Camps
Little 5 Points June 21-July 2
Decatur July 5-July16
Campers make music videos with the Director of the Center’s Moving Image Project, Dan Greene. Students participate in every aspect of the creative process.
-
Berklee City Music Network
Site Visit
CMC Decatur Tuesday, June 22 2:00 pm
We welcome J Curtis Warner, Associate Vice President for Education Outreach at Berklee College of Music and the Executive Director for Berklee City Music, to the Decatur Music Center on Tuesday, June 22.
-
Adult Division Student Recital
Salon Recital for Adult Students & Friends
Candler Park Private Residence
Sunday, August 15, 2010 2:00 to 4:00 pm
An informal and relaxing afternoon recital for adult students only in the Candler Park home of a student in our Adult Division.