Lively sadly says good bye to Zheng Cao, a lovely lady, kind and warm human being, a beautiful mezzo soprano. Zheng and Leslie met when Leslie wrote a feature article for Asian Week about the many gifted Asian Americans at the San Francisco Opera. They met again when Leslie’s feature, New Faces of Opera, was the cover story on the first issue of The Hedgehog, the international arts review, in December, 1996. Zheng was known for her effervescent performances of Mozart, her touching portrayal of Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, and  in 2008 she sang the lead role in The Bonesetter’s Daughter, SFOpera’s premiere of Stewart Wallace’s opera of Amy Tan’s book. Zheng Cao’s generous spirit was well represented when, even though very ill, she appeared in Feb., 2012, to announce the creation of the Merola Opera Program Zheng Cao Fund which will go to support either mezzo sopranos or Asian Americans. Take a bow, Zheng Cao! You made the world a better place with your music and your presence. 

Great news! Our hero, Bini, at netmegs, has put wordpress on our website.

This will allow us to give the world Lively’s news and the Hedgehog’s Highlights

again. After Apple pulled the plug on the program that kept our website going,

we were not able to update it, but now we can. Just in time to announce that our

Lunar New Year Luncheon, Meet Us at Ming’s is on for March 2nd at noon. Don’t

miss it; it’s always great fun, and the food is amazing. Good to be back.

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Congratulations to Jonathan Clark. He is The Lively Foundation’s Technical Director, Co-Editor of The Hedgehog, the international arts review, Designer of sets and beautiful posters & announcement cards, and much applauded guest artist singer.
The Book Club of California has honored him with

This website was built using Apple Computer’s iweb system. As of June 30, 2012, Apple is doing away with iweb. Forever. Gone. Over.
We are working on having the website moved into a different system. We do not know yet how much of it will work. IT WILL STILL HAVE THE ADDRESS: WWW.LIVELYFOUNDATI

Larry Lynch is The Man in Irish Set Dances. Participants in Lively’s International Dance Festival–Silicon Valley will have a chance to dance with the master on August 25, 3 -4:30 p.m.
Larry was an international champion of Irish step dancing in his youth. His interest in Set dancing led him to w

The Lively Foundation presents the first edition of a great new festival: International Dance Festival-Silicon Valley, this August. Classes and rehearsals will be held in Mountain View and two performances at the Historic Hoover Theater, in San Jose. We are excited about these events!
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