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Every true and aspiring ballerina loves the art of dance and those highly coveted pointe shoes! Keep her dance dreams growing with this beautiful painting duet featuring pointes shoes and a graceful, leaping ballerina.Paintings are done in acrylic with a unique distressed style over 8x10 or 11x14 wood supported stretched canvases.Paintings arrive complete with beautiful and 1-1/2" wide white bows. Bows are made from wire-edged ribbon to help keep form and beauty for years to come. Bows are both sewn and glued on for additional reinforcement. (For paintings with black, bows are 2" wide.) If you prefer no bow then simply state that in the notes section while ordering. Examples shown features a color pallet of softened white and aqua. See additional shop listings for more color combinations and examples.Canvases are lightweight and may be hung with ease.Custom orders always welcome! Additional colors, sizes and personalization options available upon request. If you have something special in mind, I will do my best to create the perfect piece for your special dancer.Art makes for a wonderful gift for kids, teens and for nursery rooms.Gift wrapping available upon request.Thanks for visiting Margo's Art Boutique!

“Susannah” begins with the 18-year-old title character already an outsider. Her parents have died, and she has been raised by her alcoholic brother, Sam. At a local dance, her neighbors call her a “shameless wench.” They’re certain she will come to no good. The newcomer at the dance is the Rev. Olin Blitch, who has come to town to cast out sin, save souls and build a faithful flock. Like every other man present, he has his eye on the vivacious Susannah. The drama turns on an incident the next morning, when the church elders, looking for a new place for baptisms, come across Susannah bathing nude in a nearby stream. She is quickly ostracized by the community, with the elders calling for her to admit her sin and repent.

Floyd, who set the score to his own libretto, conjures the story in forthright English, highlighting the conflict between Susannah’s naive yearnings and the mob mentality coalescing in Blitch’s newly formed congregation, His score — an elegant mix of unadorned ballet art, dancer art, ballerina wall art, kids rooms, childrens wall art, original canvas art, girls rooms, girls rooms aqua, melodies, folk songs, hymns and dances — is just as effective, Cavanagh directed the opera with plenty of forward momentum on Erhard Rom’s set of weathered woods, with hills, streams, verdant forests and night skies projected as backdrops, Gary Marder’s lighting and Michael Yeargan’s rustic costumes added to the atmosphere..

Racette gave a fully committed performance, letting Susannah’s shock and shame come to the surface gradually as the performance progressed. As always, she sang with focused power and lyrical beauty; her arias “Ain’t it a pretty night” and “The trees in the mountains are cold and bare” were especially touching. The other standout was tenor Brandon Jovanovich, who sang the role of Sam with rich tone and boundless vitality. Bass Raymond Aceto made a resonant, darkly unctuous Blitch, and tenor James Kryshak was an eloquent Little Bat. As Mrs. McLean, mezzo-soprano Catherine Cook led a pack of townswomen, sung by Erin Johnson, Jacqueline Piccolino and Suzanne Hendrix. The elders — Dale Travis as McLean, Joel Sorenson as Hayes, A.J. Glueckert as Gleaton and Timothy Mix as Ott — made fine contributions. Ian Robertson’s chorus sang with heft and vigor, and Kamensek, making her San Francisco Opera debut, conducted a dynamic orchestral performance.

Rohan Krishnamurthy, Ohlone College’s newest music professor, is an acclaimed performer who specializes in mridangam, an ancient and still-popular Indian percussion instrument, He started his musical career with ballet art, dancer art, ballerina wall art, kids rooms, childrens wall art, original canvas art, girls rooms, girls rooms aqua, an unorthodox method in, perhaps, an unlikely place, His first training in playing the double-sided drum came when he was growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, In later training sessions, his instructor in Boston gave pointers long-distace over the telephone, as Krishnamurthy listened and practiced 900 miles away in his parents’ home..

His fascination with mridangam (mree-DAHNG-guhm) grew with age. The drum is usually made from a hollowed piece of wood whose two ends are covered with goatskin and leather. Percussionists tap both ends of the congalike instrument with specific fingers to create several layers of sounds. “It’s an incredibly versatile instrument where you get a drum set’s worth of sounds from one drum,” he said. “Its rhythm system is mind-bogglingly complex.”. As he studied classical Indian music, he went overseas to practice in person with Guruvayur Dorai, one of India’s most experienced mridangam instructors and performers.

Krishnamurthy’s acclaim grew with his experience, Through the years, he has performed in hundreds of international concerts, including a private performance in 2007 for Abdul Kalam, then India’s president, A graduate of Kalamazoo College and the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, in New York, Krishnamurthy has branched out beyond performing, He designed and patented a new method of tuning drumheads, an invention that won him first place in an entrepreneur competition at the Eastman School, where he earned a ballet art, dancer art, ballerina wall art, kids rooms, childrens wall art, original canvas art, girls rooms, girls rooms aqua, doctorate in musicology last year..

Late last month he began teaching music theory courses at Ohlone’s Fremont campus, where he also offers a percussion ensemble class Thursday nights, giving students a chance to jam with him and classmates. Krishnamurthy, 27, sees the ensemble as more than just a class. “It’s a great way to meet the campus, and it’s an institutional bridge to connect the community to academic study,” he said. “It’s meant to be fun and accessible.”. African and Indian drumming tends to be more complex and technically difficult, which can make learning the Indian instrument more gratifying and profitable, said Alex Quick, a Fremont percussionist in the ensemble class. “If I’m able play mridangam and bring it over to a regular drum set, then I can play a style that most Fremont drummers can’t, and I can make more money.”.

Krishnamurthy said he moved to San Francisco about a year ago, in part because the region long has embraced a variety of musical styles, including his classical Indian genre, South Asia’s rich musical tradition, he said, might be especially appreciated in Fremont, where 1 in 5 residents are Indian-American, “The Fremont area is one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the country,” he said, “Indian music took root in the Bay Area in the 1960s, and it’s been a ballet art, dancer art, ballerina wall art, kids rooms, childrens wall art, original canvas art, girls rooms, girls rooms aqua, hub of Indian music and dance ever since.”..

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