A couple of e-mails resulting from my comments about male & female rival visions of heaven raise a few questions. One lady in Lithuania is a tad confused because she loves Vilnius and dislikes chocolate. A friend from New York writes that his idea of heaven would be Bruges populated by leggy blondes, which sounds to me like trying to have your cake and eat it (or at least your chocolate)! But I suspect that Korngold would have agreed. His opera Die tote Stadt is based on a book named Bruges-la-Morte by the Belgian symbolist writer Georges Rodenbach - and there's no greater chocaholic in music history than dear old Erich Wolfgang K.
I'm wondering whether to change the heading on this blog to 'music, writing and food in London, UK'....
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Seems like chocolate is in the air these days. Could it be the result of an overactive Chocolate Marketing Board? Here in Berkeley there are now a number of Chocolate Cafes, including one called, simply Bittersweet
My friend Leonard Pitt has created the
Berkeley Chocolate Club that meets regularly to taste the stuff and report back. So Berkeley!
And now I find myself doing the music for a dance performance that will be called Chocolate Box that has something to do with the experience of chocolate. Never thought I'd be making chocolate into music.
Jessica - Love your blog! Chocolate and Classical Music and Korngold, it's all good.
I'm writing from Baltimore, Maryland (USA) to say I hope you're okay after the horrific morning Londoners have had!
Just started my own blog - will post some Korngold & chocolate comments, too.
Meanwhile, keep up the good work and stay safe!
Welcome aboard, Andrea B! I'll add Music to Live By to the blogroll prontissimo.
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