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Rhapsody In The Classroom
Susan Spelius Gannon addresses the students.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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ighty-one students from The Sage School held classroom in Susan Spelius Gannon’s living room in Elkhorn Thursday afternoon. They were there for the inaugural concert in the Sun Valley Artist Series’ inaugural Piano Festival. Seated on wooden folding chairs, they watched as fellow classmates—16-year-old Sarah Verst and Nia Drougas—performed on a 9-foot concert Fazioli grand, one of the most expensive pianos ever built. The students were accompanied by their teacher, Gannon—on a 9-foot concert Steinway grand that was pushed right up against the Fazioli. Then they listened as FangFang Shi, a Beijing-born pianist now living in Los Angeles, took them on a tour of China in a piece played primarily on the black keys. “ ‘Autumn Moon over the Calm Lake’ is a very intimate song that’s well known in China,” Shi said. “The composer wrote the music after visiting the famous West Lake in Hangzhou, which is a gorgeous place of tranquility. In Chinese the title is very poetic—it loses something in translation. But it was exciting to share the music, to share something I’m enthusiastic about.” The concert kicked off three days featuring 11 piano concerts by pianists from New York and Los Angeles. “Classical music doesn’t have to be boring,” SVAS executive director Steve Gannon told the kids. One of the main differences between classical music and the pop you’re used to listening to, he added, is that the pieces are longer. Even so, the longest piece in the 50-minute concert is George Gershwin’s 15-minute “Rhapsody in Blue.” “It’s like watching a novel versus a short story,” Gannon added. The concert intrigued many of the students. “I think it was really interesting. It was cool how fast their hands move,” said Sara King-Nakaoka.
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These are some of the products that NourishMe uses to clear rashes and allergies from the body during a spring cleanse.
STORY AND PHOTOS BY KAREN BOSSICK
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uffy Ritz is used to coaching recreational athletes how to improve their fitness for Nordic skiing or bicycling. Last year she took others’ advice to pursue another avenue of fitness. She did a weeklong nutritional cleanse offered by Glow Live Food Café in Ketchum. She didn’t miss a beat as she led her Vamps through a rigorous dryland clinic. “I had read the book ‘Clean’ and was intrigued by how we can rejuvenate ourselves through diet and I wanted to see if I could do it,” she said. “I felt really light and cleaned up and I was never hungry. And it made me realize we don’t need to eat as much as we do or many of the kinds of things we eat. I lost eight pounds in the process—some of which I haven’t gained back.” This spring Ritz plans to do another spring cleanse. She’s one of a growing number of people participating in spring cleanse options that are sprouting up faster than the grass in Ketchum.
There are at least a half-dozen different nutritionists and medical practitioners offering spring cleanses. And, like the snowflakes that are fast melting away, no two cleanses are alike. Spring cleansing was long a natural part of man’s regimen before the convenience of supermarkets rendered the seasonality of eating, said chiropractic assistant Sylvie Dore. Cleansing now helps to restore balance to the body’s acid-alkaline mix, which often becomes a little too acidic because of the heavy foods we eat during winter, she added. “It used to be man would gather food and store it, do a little fasting as he ran out at the end of winter. Then he’d start eating the fresh shoots coming out of the ground,” said Dr. Maria Maricich, of Quantum Healing Arts. Maricich has assisted clients with detox or cleanse programs for 20 years, but this year she formalized it with a program that includes a free lecture and a three-week support workshop costing $15. She also offers cleanse consults. “Springtime is ideal for a cleanse,” she added. “There’s a reason we do spring cleaning now. We spend the rest of the
SAVE THE DATE!
Molly Peppo Brown holds a trio of juices that her Glow Live Food Café provides for its weeklong spring cleanse.
year accumulating stuff. In the spring, we want to open the doors and clear everything out.” While the natural rhythm of eating isn’t necessary anymore thanks to the availability of food in supermarkets, the need for spring cleansing —or detoxifying — the body is greater than ever because of “environmental toxicity that is out of control,” said Molly Peppo Brown, a nutritionist and owner of Glow Live Food Café in Ketchum. “We’re lucky here because we live in a place where the air is clean. But even so, there are an immense amount of pesticides we come in contact with,” she said. Today’s humans are exposed to 2 million toxins a day. And certain chemicals produce permanent mutations in our body that can cause cancer and other diseases, according to researchers at the University of Texas and Washington State University.
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