Below are excerpts from our 4th Annual Afternoon of Enchantment. To view a listing of the whole program, click here (pdf). (You can also see clips from our Spring Concert.) If the movies do not play, you may need to install RealPlayer (free). Click on "Free RealOne Player" at the upper right hand corner of the Real.com page. (If you have a Mac with OS 9 or earlier, click here.) |
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The Living Wisdom School 2nd-8th grade choir performs There's No Business Like Show Business. The choir is directed by singing teacher Dharmini Iyer. Listen for the surprise third verse! |
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Fourth grader Stephen Waarts performs the beautiful and complex Introduction and Tarantella Opus 43 by Pablo de Sarasate. Stephen is accompanied by Steve Lightburn on piano. |
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Eighth grader Rose Frazier sings Musetta's Waltz from La Boheme by Puccini. She is accompanied by Dahveed Behroozi on piano and her father, Richard Frazier, on double bass. |
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Seventh grader Pooja Desai performs an Indian classical dance choreographed by her teacher Shalini Saxena and set to an original composition by Pandit Habib Khan. |
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Living Wisdom School parents Cynthia Drayer and Andre Reyes perform the pas de deux that they choreographed to the poem He Said, She Said by Hafiz. This video is of their original performance in our 2004 play about Hafiz's life, The Subject Tonight is Love. Cynthia and Andre spent years as principal dancers with the San Francisco Ballet. Cynthia currently dances with the San Francisco Opera Ballet and teaches dances at LWS to grades K-1. Andre performs with Smuin Ballets in San Francisco and is on the Dance staff of San Jose State University. Together Andre and Cindy lead the Volee Classical Ballet School in Palo Alto. |
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Seventh grader Anjali Madison performs one of the poems she recited in our Hafiz play. This video is her original recitation of the poem Poetry Leaves No Empty Space. |
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Eighth grader Casey Jones also performs a Hafiz poem. Here is her original recital of I am Full of Love. |
| The entire 90-minute show features additional performances by local artists in support of Living Wisdom School. The show is available on DVD or VHS for $15. If you would like to purchase a copy, please contact us. The video on this page may be freely copied and distributed. Back to main movie page. |
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