THE CROWDEN LETTER
SUMMER 2021
Live Performances Return to Crowden We welcomed audiences back to campus for live, in-person performances, 411 days after Crowden closed due to the pandemic. Last year on March 12, we cheered on our Crowden School sixth graders at their solo performances concert. The very next day, Crowden joined the entire Bay Area in closing our doors with the first shelter-in-place orders. We have weathered the pandemic better than many fellow arts organizations—being able to
continue many of our programs and even make
our Crowden School graduating class to their
music on campus for this entire year. This is
Eighth Grade Solo Night recording. It was the
due to enormous efforts from every corner of
perfect way to honor our Class of 2021, who
our community, from our faculty and staff to
have weathered a school year unlike any other
donors to our students and their families. We
in Crowden’s history and sacrificed so much
are deeply thankful that our community has by
with grace, determination, and an unwavering
and large stayed very healthy, and that we have
joy in music. Families sat in socially distanced
achieved such a low instance of coronavirus ex-
groupings as our eighth graders took the
posure and infection. Still, how sorely we have
Hoefer Auditorium stage for their first public
missed sharing live concerts together, in person!
performance all year.
So it was incredibly moving to gather
Then, on May 9, we opened our campus
together on campus once again for live perfor-
to members of the general public for a very
mances late this spring. For our very first in-
special event, Hear | Together. Co-presented by
person concert audience, we invited families of
Alternating Currents, a nonprofit that produces
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