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Monterey Bay Area Ensembles, Presenters, and Media

Concert Presenters and Venues

Instrumental Ensembles (mostly)

Choral & Vocal Ensembles

Annual Festivals

University Series

Music and Books About Music

Bookmark Music, Pacific Grove, California

Since 1994 Bookmark Music has been a world-class source of sheet music and music books.

The store is located at 307 Forest Avenue in Pacific Grove, and they also have internet customers all over the world. Visit their website: bookmarkmusic.com


Websites of Local Print Media


Radio and Online Music


A  great mix of music and talk on FM, they also stream an all-classical HD channel at kazu.org.
How to listen


103.9 FM in Monterey or streaming online
San Francisco's KDFC is one of the most popular classical music FM stations in the USA. It is listener-supported, all-classical, a service of the Universty of Southern California. How to listen


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Carmel Impresarios

The definitive biography of Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous, the two extraordinary women who created Carmel Music Society (1927) and the Carmel Bach Festival (1935). They were central figures in Carmel's artistic and architectural development in the years before WWII. This book paints a detailed picture of their lives and the development of theater and music in early Carmel.

400 pages, 300 rare vintage illustrations, a century of history, fully footnoted and indexed, extensive Appendix and Bibliography.   Learn More

“The reference material itself
is worth the price of the book”

- John Crosse, California
architectural history scholar

The page background displays the names of the more than 600 artists and ensembles presented by CMS since 1927. Click here to see a detailed list.