Anticipating an unusually sweltering summer day, Jennifer Howard moved one of her casual house concerts to the Dance Palace, hoping to offer both the audience and musicians a cooler venue. What she found there was more than respite from the heat: the community center’s gorgeous Grotrian piano and the beginnings of a project.
Ms. Howard, the founder and executive director of the Point Reyes Chamber Concerts, grew up in the San Geronimo Valley surrounded…