About Us | Jazz and Classics for Change

Jazz and Classics for Change (“JCfC”) was established in the summer of 2019 with the mission, “To connect and to heal through music in our changing world.”

JCfC believes that everyone deserves to experience the unique joy that music brings. Our goal is to present programming that is inspirational, meaningful, and restorative, performed by world-class musicians.

It is through our outreach programs, thanks to the generosity of our donors, that we are able to connect with children of underserved communities, individuals with special abilities and with seniors who live in assisted living homes.

Please consider supporting our mission as we strive to build connections through music that enrich, inspire and honor the lives of all people.

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

—Margaret Wheatley

“I’d like to offer these words about why gathering for the purpose of basking in the beauty of music — matters:

‍Especially now, when so much of our attention is pulled outward, fragmented, and unable to settle, beauty invites us into another tempo — one in which we can feel, again, what is whole. Not as an escape from the world, but as a way of remembering what is most alive within it.

‍Perhaps more than any other art form, music creates a field we enter together. We don’t have to agree, explain, or even understand. We simply listen — and in that listening, something in us begins to align, soften and open.

‍What Gili has created here — and what these musicians are offering — is not just a performance, but a moment. One that will never happen in exactly this way again. And we are part of it.

‍So I invite you to arrive fully. To listen not only with your ears, but with your whole being. Let the music find you, in whatever way it does.

‍And perhaps, in the field of our shared attention, we will rediscover — if only for this interval — what we truly care about.”

‍—Diane Rossman

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Craig Bender

George Brooks

Roberta Cooper

Eugene Drucker

Mark Evans

Ronald Feldman

Joe Gold

Gwen Gould