"moist notes from the vine"
I think that there is a line written in Stephen King’s novella, ‘The Four Seasons’ that states, “I’ve no idea what those two, young Italian ladies were singing about but it was the most beautiful thing I’d ever heard.” Up until a few nights ago that was about as close as I’d been to the world of opera.
I was astounded at how good she, her husband and composer Jim Tomlinson and the bassist, pianist and drummer combined on a night, she divulged, they were playing together for the first time. During the show, which was split across two sessions and an obligatory encore, every song seemed to effortlessly release from her lips and melt into my ears like warm caramel.