RICHARD FENNER

Richard Fenner and his wife, Pinjie in Shanghai.

RICHARD FENNER

Music Department
City College of San Francisco

Greetings to anyone searching for an accredited, challenging, and interesting
program of learning in music in the general areas of:

HARMONY (Music 3A/3B) as you know is a search for general principles regarding
the past use of combined notes or chords. We attempt to make this search and
discovery enjoyable and real through the use of music-writing excercies,
keyboard studies, and the analysis of composiitons. At City College we
provide students with an opportunity for one year's study in this area,
starting from a blank screen and progressing through chromatic harmony. After
one year you have only just begun your life-long harmony-studies, but you will
have had a good start and a general over-view of the field.

MUSICIANSHIP (Music 1A/1B) is the name commonly given to courses and methods
of study relating to the development of the perception and performance of the
elements which combine to form music -- rhythm, melody, harmony. In these
classes students develop their abilty to know what they are hearing, to be
able to separate these elements and then recombine them. The clearest way to
demonstrate what students learn in this two-semester sequence is to imagine
yourself with the ability to write down in music notation the essentials of a
piece of music of your own chosing.

CELLO(Music 7C) is that heart-rending, rich instrument that you have always wanted
to learn. You can study at City College in a once-a-week small class for
$13 each <<semester>>! You provide the cello, we provide everything else.
After one year's conscientious study, beginning students are well on their way
to playing. There is also an opportunity for players at any level to enroll
and pick up where they left off years ago.

I was born in mid-winter on a small, inhabited island where my music-training,
began at age 5 on the piano not the ukulele (This should give you a hint about
the island.). I studied at home through a process like osmosis since my
musical family oozed musicianship. Balking at formal study as many kids do,
I prefered being outside to the discipline of piano-practice, but with the
guidance of my family I
did both, and survived.

My music education was at Queens College, Brandeis University and the
University of California at Berkeley. Composition interested me most during
those years but I subsequently became involved with cello-playing and have
retained that interest throughout my life. For a more detailed description
of my professional life, see our music department brochure, also available at
this web-site.