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The purpose of San Francisco Zen Center is to make accessible and embody the wisdom and compassion of the Buddha as expressed in the Soto Zen tradition established by Dogen Zenji in 13th-century Japan and conveyed to us by Suzuki Roshi and other Buddhist teachers. Our practice flows from the insight that all beings are Buddha, and that sitting in meditation is itself the realization of Buddha nature, or enlightenment.

Rae Serrano’s credits run the gamut from a gold record for the soundtrack of the movie “Beat Street”, to composing and producing his hit song “Clave Rocks” that can still be heard on Latin pop/dance radio and internet stations today. 

A few years have gone by since Rae Serrano played stadiums around the world with Afrika Baambaata. He also produced and performed his hit record Clave Rocks with his group. Nevertheless, he was still on other Amoretto Rae Serrano projects from 1989-1990, one of them being an album called "Gracias" with Yomo Toro, where Jeanette De Jesus was featured in two tracks, which was also a courtesy by Mr. Amoretto himself and the other yet to be released. 

Rae Serrano has lent his magical keyboard playing and uncanny production skills to dozens of projects along the way. But now, he is turning his attention to his most important project coming in 2020.

Discography:

Luna Salerno (CD Album): Rico Monaco & The Sol Suns - 2006
* My Dreams
* Say Cabo
* Luna Salerno

Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) (CD, Album) DBK Works - 2005

Freestyle Greatest Beats: The Complete Collection Volume 09 (CD, Comp) Clave Rocks, Tommy Boy Music -1997

Absolutely... The Very Best Of Old School Rap (3xCD, Comp + Box)	
B-Boy Style (Club Mix) w/ Lil Jazzy Jay - Deepbeats Records - 1997

The Best Of Minimal Records - Rough House Vol. 1 (CD, Comp) Revelation, Hot Productions - 1995

Chango Te Llama (Album) Mango Records - 1991

Yomo Toro - Gracias (12" & CD Album) Mango an Island Record Company -1989/1990 - Album produced by and courtesy by Mr. Amoretto, songs composed by Mr. Amoretto on this album are listed below
* Se Acabo
* Stop Playing With My Heart 
* Gracias
* Atrevate

An Introduction To Latin Hip-Hop (CD, Comp) Clave Rocks, 
Rhythm King Records - 1988 

Revelation - (2 versions)	Minimal Records - 1988
Rough House Vol. 1 (LP, Comp, 12") Revelation -	Minimal Records - 1988

Punk Funk Railroad on Celluloid Records - 1987

Bambaataa's Theme (Assault On Precinct 13) Tension 
(2 versions) Bambaataa's Theme (Assault on Precinct 13), Tommy Boy Music - 1986

Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere) (2 versions) Bambaataa's Theme (Assault on Precinct 13) DBK Works - 1986

Clave Rocks (12" & Radio Edit) PKO Records - 1986

Strung Out On You (Chasing A Dream) on Funky Town Groove Label - 1986

Bambaataa's Theme (Assault On Precinct 13) (7" Promo) on Tommy Boy Music - 1986

Planet Rock (The Album) (4 versions) Go Go Pop, on Sony Music Entertainment - 1986

The Fat Boys Ate Up The Food (12", Promo)	PKO Records - 1986

B-Boys Style (2 versions) Easy Street Records -1985

Cairo Nights (Album) (4 versions) Beatnik Celluloid - 1985

Beat Street: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Volume 1 (Comp) Frantic Situation, Atlantic Records - 1984

Frantic Situation, Tommy Boy Music - 1984

Heartbreakers (12") Tuff City - 1984
Punk Rock Rap - Tuff City - 1984

Somehow, Someway (12") Prelude Records - 1983
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AMORETTO Joint Statement
Dated  September 2018, Reads
“Rafael “Rae” Serrano” and “Jessica Lopez” hereby announce that they have resolved their dispute regarding the AMORETTO name. Mr. Serrano and Ms. Lopez have agreed to use different variations of the name AMORETTO going forward, and they have put their differences behind them. Mr. Serrano and Ms. Lopez are each moving forward with their own music and vision, and are not affiliated creatively, musically, or otherwise.

尺八演奏家。大阪府松原市出身。

琴古流、古典本曲(横山勝也師伝)、及び尺八奏法の全般を石川利光師に現在まで師事。

根笹派錦風流古典本曲(神如道師伝)を神令師、諸派古典本曲(高橋空山師伝)を藤由越山師にそれぞれ師事。

名もなき虚無僧たちの残した遺産「古典本曲」を軸としながらも、ジャンルにとらわれないボーダレスな活動を東京を拠点に行う。

2005年 全国邦楽コンクールにおいて最優秀賞・文部科学大臣奨励賞を受賞。(受賞曲：古典本曲「山越」)
同年 イタリア・トスカーナ "プッチーニフェスティバル"へ招聘されゲストコンサートを行う。

2011年より古典本曲のみによるコンサートシリーズ「古典本曲の現在」を企画・主宰する。

教授活動にも力を注ぎ、松本宏平尺八教室を主宰する他、2011年度より大阪・松原市文化情報振興財団の主催する「尺八体験教室」にて講師を勤める。

NHK邦楽技能者育成会53期修了。石川利光門人会石の会所属。

Byron Adams (b. 1955) is a composer, conductor, and musicologist. His essays have appeared in journals such as 19th-Century Music, The Musical Quarterly, Music and Letters, twentieth-century music, and the John Donne Journal, and have been included in volumes such as The Cambridge Companion to Elgar (2004), Walt Whitman and Modern Music (Garland, 2000) The Cambridge Companion to Vaughan Williams (Cambridge, 2013) and The Music of Herbert Howells (Boydell, 2014) In 2000, the American Musicological Society presented him with the Philip Brett Award. In 2007, he was appointed scholar-in-residence for the Bard Music Festival, and edited the volume Edward Elgar and His World (Princeton, 2007). In addition, Adams has been a Visiting Fellow for the Institute of Musical Research, School of Advanced Studies, of the University of London, and is an Associate Editor of The Musical Quarterly. In 2010, he was named scholar-in-residence for the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles.


Adams’s music has been performed at the 26th “Warsaw Autumn” International Festival of Contemporary Music, the Leith Hill Festival in England, the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France (where he taught in the summer of 1992), and the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra.  A recipient of numerous awards and grants, Adams’s music has been programmed in America by such ensembles as the West Virginia Symphony, Cantori New York, and the Riverdale Sinfonietta. His Serenade for nine instruments was performed during the 2013 Hot Air Festival of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Recent commissions include the Variationes alchemisticae for Chamber Music Palisades, Le Jardin Provençal, for Pacific Serenades, and Illuminations for piano, which was commissioned by the distinguished pianist Armen Guzelimian. In the summer of 2011, The Philharmonia Orchestra performed his Midsummer Music under the baton on Peter Oundjian; that same year the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra performed his Capriccio concertante, conducted by Grant Cooper. In 2013, the celebrated violist Nokathula Ngwenyama première d Adams’ Sonata for Viola and Piano; in March of 2014, the celebrated male voice ensemble Cantus sang the première of a score that they had commissioned, “Eventide,” which they featured on their annual Thanksgiving Day broadcast over NPR. In October of 2014, the distinguished ‘cellist Julie Albers gave four performances of Adams’s Concerto for violoncello and orchestra with Grant Cooper conducting the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra; in November celebrated pianists Alexander Peskanov and Rafal Lewandowski played the première performance of his Trittico for piano duet on a concert on the Bargemusic series in New York.


Sahaja Yoga, hayatımızı içsel olarak güzelleştiren çok özel bir meditasyon tekniğidir. 1970 yılında Shri Mataji tarafından kurulmuştur. Her yaştan insan tarafından kolaylıkla öğrenilebilir. Tamamen ücretsizdir.

“Sahaja” sizinle birlikte doğmuş olan, “Yoga” ise her yanı saran evrensel sevgi enerjisi ile bütünleşmek anlamındadır. Bu bütünleşmeyi hissetmek ve onun getirdiği denge ve huzur içinde yaşamak her insanın doğuştan getirdiği bir haktır. “Sahaja” aynı zamanda kolayca, kendiliğinden olan anlamındadır.

İçimizde bulunan iyileştirici annesel enerji “Kundalini” Sahaja Yoga ile kolayca uyandırılır ve böylece kişinin içindeki tüm güzel kaliteler bir çiçek gibi açılmaya başlar.

 Sahaja Yoga basit ve son derece etkili bir yoldur. Bu yolda ilerleyebilmemizin tek şartı düzenli meditasyon yapmamızdır. :)

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