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Rochester Music Guild helps locals listen and learn
2025-05-07 00:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
While the common phrase might be live and learn, the Rochester Music Guild is encouraging Rochesterites to listen and learn. In part, the guild is achieving this goal by presenting a series of free concerts in a series called, well, Listen and Learn.In 1963, the Rochester Music Guild was formed with the purpose of promoting and enhancing music enrichment in our community. Over the years, the service-oriented organization has lent support to Rochester Civic Music and the Rochester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale while also providing music scholarships and grants to area musicians and nonprofits. ADVERTISEMENT Linda Edd, the president of the Rochester Music Guild, says the guilds free concert series began 22 years ago. The Lunch and Learn program started in 2003, she says. It was renamed Listen and Learn in 2021 due to changes made during COVID. We are no longer able to provide a catered lunch at our venues.Though food is no longer part of the concert series, it offers a smorgasb...
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