With the Valentine鈥檚 Day festivities behind us, you might well have had all of the chocolate you can stand. Chocolate hearts, flowers, sauces, chocolate-dipped strawberries, your dreams are no longer in color, but in white, milk, and dark.
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Allow me to mention the subject once more, if you will. For some of us, chocolate is not simply for special occasions, unless that occasion is a day ending in Y. Chocolate goes with a variety of things. It pairs well with various wines and scotches, for instance. Coffee is always a great accompaniment. Actually, I would be better off listing the things with which chocolate does not go. Ummm鈥hhh鈥鈥檒l get back to you on that.
Cellist Joshua Roman is an admitted chocoholic. He is also a musician and music lover. It only stood to readson that he would pair two of his favorite things..
Josh recently presented a performance with the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, he called, 鈥淐ello & Chocolate: An Exploration of the Senses.鈥� It all started when a friend of his gave him some bacon chocolate from , an upscale Chicago shop. In Roman鈥檚 words, 鈥淚 became addicted.鈥� So much so that he is a regular at the chocolatier鈥檚 kiosk at Gate B6 at O鈥橦are Airport to place an order. Something tells me he may be spotted in Chicago on a regular basis.
In an article in the Chicago Tribune, Donna Vickroy said much research went into the performance pairings. Roman would end up sampling some 25 different truffles. To quote a great scholar鈥︹€滾ife is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you鈥檙e gonna get.鈥� Apparently, a performance by Josh Roman is much the same.
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