AMN Stories - Amateur Music Network

(Take me out to the) music game

Lolly Lewis on how baseball and music both inhabit a world of shared impulse and improvisation.

Lonely for music

Lolly Lewis wants to be back in the concert hall, where music is a communal acoustic voyage into the spaces of our shared imagination.

Kathy Angus: singing like a big girl

Kathy Angus "loves music down to her toes." But she found her own voice only after years of teaching others the importance of theirs.

Jerry Simas: home-grown musician

Jerome Simas has been a professional musician for so many years now that he's not even sure he could ﬁgure out how long. Now he plays with the SF Symphony.

Music resources for when you're stuck at home

Collecting ideas and resources to help musicians get through the pandemic and a time of enforced isolation. Don't let being apart keep you from being a musician!