-- My teaching schedule for November will be mostly uninterrupted. I am not be teaching on Thanksgiving Day holiday, of course. I need to shuffle some Thursday and Sunday students to different times this month due to my ongoing performances in Berkeley. I will communicate schedule changes to everyone on an individual basis. During the first two weeks of November I'm continuing my work with actress Rita Moreno's one-woman play "Life w/o Makeup" at the Berkeley Rep Theatre . If anyone is still interested in seeing the show, you need to get moving: Sunday, 11/13 is the final performance. -- Fees for Certificate of Merit students are due with November lesson payments. As a reminder, here are the CM dates for this spring: * Performance evaluations will be held on the weekends of March 3-4 and March 10-11 . ** Theory testing will be conducted on the weekend of March 3-4 . -- The next student recital will be held on Saturday, Decembe