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Your weekly pairing of wine & song
Happy Friday! Hope you're doing well -- this week I'm thrilled to share with you a peek at my new one-woman musical show, "Beyond the Frame" -- real and imagined stories based on the artwork of Édouard Manet. This song, "Ennui," is sung from the perspective of the singer in "The Café-Concert" (1879.) (I was able to call on some personal experience for this one.:)) We're hoping to bring this show to museums as soon as we can, as we build up steam for a fully produced/orchestrated off-Broadway...
Welcome to your pairing, and to a happy Friday. A few notes before we get to it! I'm thrilled to be singing a short program as the finale to a special benefit for Fort Tryon Park (in my nabe!) this Sunday, September 29th, in the tree-nestled Bonnefont restaurant. Come for wine, wooded wanders and a set with me, Ted Nash, Russell Hall & Adam Birnbaum. Find tickets here. A warm welcome to those joining us for the first time this week after our meeting "Beyond the Frame." I'm thrilled to have...
Welcome to your pairing, and to a happy Friday. Hope you enjoy this week's duo as much as I did! Juice When you think of white Burgundy, you're usually thinking of chardonnay. Unless you think a little more...in which case it's time to talk about aligoté. While not as popular, or as widely planted, as the famed chardonnay, aligoté provides lots of pleasure. I think of it as white Burgundy’s B side. It’s also a more affordable way to get to know top producers — for instance, Burgundy’s lauded...