The Lively Foundation

Our Artistic Director, Leslie Friedman, has been invited by Stanford to present her new book, Coming Home to India. The annual program brings authors with new books.All are connected to Stanford. Historians, fiction writers, & scientists, all great writers. It's FREE. In person or watch over Zoom. It is PACIFIC TIME. Leslie chairs at 2:25 with two medical drs: Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, a medical oncologist who wrote 90 Seconds to Midnight: A Hiroshima Survivor's Nuclear Odyssey & John G. Brock-Utne, anesthesiologist specialist, wrote Memories from the German Occupation of Norway, 1940-45. Like books? Don't miss this event!

New Book COMING HOME TO INDIA. It's about my first time in India. On a Fulbright Lectureship. I was affiliated with Tagore's university in West Bengal. I circled India to perform& teach. Each place where I performed reinvited me to perform again. Stories: Dance, history, travel. I'll be at Stanford for Company of Authors. I chair a group & talk about my book, too. APRIL 18, 1 -5:30 P.M. Humanities Ctr, Zoom or live. FREE!

Lively is grateful for donations we are receiving today & through the holiday season. Lively works to create & present the best of the arts. One recent donor wrote, "Lively brings the best of the arts to everyone and every age. Your donors make it possible, but the hard work, dedication, & just plain great talent make it work." Stick with Lively. We are for you.

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted Stravinsky's Firebird. It was created to be a ballet, but it was still great. Of course, we'd love to have the whole show.

Esa-Pekka Salonen Meets the Firebird | Lively Foundation Esa-Pekka Salonen Meets the Firebird May 24, 2025 – San Francisco Symphony at Davies Symphony Hall – Esa-Pekka Salonen, Music Director of the SF Symphony, led the orchestra through a fascinating program: Chorale, by Magnus Lindberg; Violin Concerto, by Alban Berg; and The Firebird, by Igor Strav...