white ballet slippers with hand embroidered art deco monogram

• Dr. Elmo and Wild Blue–You know him best as the guy who warbled “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” on the radio back in the day. But Dr. Elmo is also a banjo player, who will be plucking out his critically acclaimed versions of such traditional carols as “Greensleeves” and Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” as well as original bluegrass tunes. It’s a good bet the Doc will be convinced to recount the tale of Grandma’s sad demise as well. One night only, Dec. 15 at 8 p.m., Sunnyvale Community Center Theater, 550 E. Remington Drive. General admission tickets are $28; $22 for students and seniors. Call 408.733.6611 or visit arts.insunnyvale.com for more information.

The event will also celebrate the past century in California and the 100th birthday of Filoli House, Flower-accented vintage cars, floral interpretations, elegant table settings, children’s bouquets, horticultural collections, educational exhibits, flower arranging demonstrations, and garden vignettes created by more than 100 designers inspired by the theme will add white ballet slippers with hand embroidered art deco monogram to the gala, Live music will be provided all three days, On May 5, the Opening Night Preview Party will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m, to give attendees the first look at exhibits, a rare stroll in the Garden in the evening light, and a chance to talk with floral designers while enjoying live music, hors d’oeuvres, wine and champagne..

A Pacifican for over 25 years, Poon is founder and artistic director of the Shan-Yee Poon School of Performing Arts in San Francisco (formerly the Shan-Yee Poon Ballet School). The school teaches 15 levels of ballet, as well as jazz, tap, hip-hop, contemporary dance, tumbling and acrobatics, ballroom dancesport, boys’ ballet, capoeira, and they are starting a Chinese classical and ethnic dance division. In addition, they offer innovative rhythm and movement classes for toddlers and parents. They also offer an “Angelina Ballerina” class based on the PBS series.

Details: 7:30 p.m. Oct, 26-29; Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland; $20-$30; www.axisdance.org, Wendy Whelan, Brian Brooks and Brooklyn Rider: Like Mikhail Baryshnikov, Wendy Whelan’s post pointe-shoe career is turning out to be as interesting as her incandescent career with the New York City Ballet, SF Performances presents her collaboration with dancer-choreographer Brian Brooks to reprise their duet “First Fall” as part of the larger piece “Some of a Thousand Words.” The evening features a live score by the adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider playing works by John Luther Adams, Tyondai Braxton, Philip Glass, and white ballet slippers with hand embroidered art deco monogram a new piece by the Rider violinist Colin Jacobsen..

For Clark, an expert in the music of the pioneering 12th-century composer and mystic Hildegard von Bingen, the medieval devotional texts sung by Vajra Voices evoke a world in which spirit and flesh “comingle with such sensuality. I don’t know how Hildegard von Bingen gets away with it. Her ‘Antiphon to the Virgin’ is a very graphic text about how God chose to enter the docile female. You see that throughout her poetry.”. In addition to Petaluma-based contralto Clark, Vajra Voices features Allison Lloyd, Amy Stuart Hunn, Cheryl Moore, Phoebe Jevtovic Rosquist, and founding members Lindsey McLennan Burdick and Celeste Winant. The vocalists will be joined on vielle, medieval harp, recorder and psaltery by Kit Higginson, a founding member of Ensemble Alcatraz, and Shira Kammen, who’s recorded extensively in an array of early music, Sephardic and Celtic music settings, including Camerata Mediterranea, Ensemble P.A.N. and Ensemble Alcatraz.