Monica Ambalal
presenting excerpts from her Doctoral thesis on the history of the Accordion in Nothern California!
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In November, we diverge from our typical musical performance on the accordion, to a mini-lecture about the history of the accordion in the Bay Area.
Club member Monica Ambalal is a scholar, a professor, a cellist, a singer and a student of the Accordion. Please join us via Zoom as Monica talks about her recently defended Doctoral thesis: The Development and Sustainability of the Piano-Accordion by Italian Communities in Northern Ca.
Monica is the chair of the Department of Music at Merritt College and has recently completed a Phd from UC-Santa Cruz. Her doctoral dissertation focuses on the piano accordion and how it was cultivated and sustained by Italian communities in northern California.
Monica has agreed to offer the Club a glimpse back in time, when the accordion was in its heyday in San Francisco, host to many Accordion manufacturers and some of the most prominent teachers and accordionists of the time.
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