EngageYour Senses - join Lyn Farmer at these events where, as a Presenter or Participant, he shares thoughts on the relationship of taste in all its permutations.
I’ll be presenting a masterclass on Chianti DOCG for the wine trade with Chianti ambassador Luca Alves, followed by an extensive walk-around tasting.
I’m delighted to host a wonderful tasting of the iconic red wines of the Veneto region in Northern Italy. It’s open to all trade - click here for details.
I am passionate about the enormous variety of wines produced in Italy’s 20 vibrant regions, regions I’ll be discussing and touring with you at a tasting presented by the Italian Trade Agency on March 20. This is a great tour of the country from top to bottom with a lot of great wine along the way and followed by dinner. Open to the wine and hospitality trade only, and registration is required. Click for details.
An innovative tasting and food-pairing seminar for media and the wine and hospitality trade featuring 20 wines from Portugal’s beautiful Setubal Peninsula.
How could an opera composed in the 1760s be a revolutionary harbinger of the Romantic Era? That's one of the questions I'll explore in a pre-performance presentation at the Broward Center, setting up the Florida Grand Opera's production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice
A visit by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields prompts a wine-fueled exploration of the Romantic Era in a pre-concert presentation.
Gypsy jazz singer Cyrille Aimée joins the Shelley Berg Trio at the Broward Center, and Lyn previews the concert with a reminiscence of one of Cyrille's biggest influences, gypsy jazz great Django Reinhardt.
Lyn previews a holiday season performance of Handel's Messiah, one of the greatest choral works in the musical literature. The Master Chorale of South Florida performs the masterwork at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, and Lyn's talk prior to the concert is complimentary for all ticket holders. Hallelujah!
Ann Hampton Calloway graces the stage of the Broward Center for the Performing Arts on December 6th with a performance for the gold Coast Jazz Society. I'll preview the performance before the curtain goes up - you're invited!
The music of Ernesto Lecuona, with its sultry meshing of classical and popular elements, is at the heart of the season-opening concert by Symphony of the Americas on October 10. Just prior to the concert, Lyn, a devotee of Lecuona's music, gives an impassioned introduction to the work of the Academy Award-winning composer whose music captures an exotic and romantic time in music.
Lyn narrates Saint-Saëns charming Carnival of the Animals in a concert that links the French composer's music with hilarious verses by American poet Ogden Nash. Click the image for concert details
Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops return to the Broward Center on February 1st with a British program that includes music by Elgar, Britten and...The Beatles! Lyn previews the concert in a presentation and wine tasting complimentary to all ticket holders. Click for details!
We're setting up a musical bistro for one night only at the Broward Center - an informal evening with food, cocktails and quartet...the Amernet Quartet. Lyn keeps the music and conversation rolling during the pre-concert reception and from the stage during the program. It's a fun and informal evening of great music.
Tenor sax legend Houston Person comes to the Broward Center, and Lyn will provide a concert preview to all ticket holders. Houston is performing with Shelley Berg's Trio in a great evening of classic jazz, and it will be even better if you stop by early for Lyn's preview!
Thursday, December 8th conductor James Judd, violinist Jan Mracek and I join to bring you a wonderful concert with the Symphonia of Boca Raton, a concert that opens with Beethoven's Egmont Overture, continues with Schubert's fourth Symphony and wraps up with the gorgeous Violin Concerto by Johannes Brahms.
Romanticism with a capital "R" is at the heart of a concert February 25th by the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra. Lyn has a preview an hour before the concert (at 7 p.m.) including music by Glinka, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, and two wines from Israel. The presentation is free to all ticket holders, and will be in the Porter Ballroom.
In both opera and wine, passion runs deep and nuance is at the heart of the story. I'm delighted to use two wines to provide some insights into the nuances of Bellini's great opera Norma when Florida Grand Opera brings its production to the Broward Center for the Performing Arts February 11 and 13. Best of all, you get wine and great music at a very special package price! For details, read on...
Guitarist John Pizzarelli is in concert for the Gold Coast Jazz Society on January 15, and Lyn provides a preview, setting up the role of the guitar in jazz and pondering the perfect Manhattan in the process.
Just as Rossini’s music is cast in a light, comic vein that masks a deeper profundity, so we can find the same elements in wine - a quest we pursue at Florida Grand Opera's production of The Barber of Seville in two pre-curtain presentations in the intimate Intermezzo Lounge at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
Lyn is joined by conductor James Judd, who performs frequently in Australia to preview Wednesday's concert by the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts.
The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra is coming to town, and Lyn's got a preview, and a glass of wine...
Lyn previews an extraordinary and exciting piano recital by Jonathan Bish, wine glass in hand (Lyn's hand, not Jonathan's!)
James Beard Award-winning Writer, Educator, Presenter, Photographer and Sampler-of-Good-Things Lyn Farmer savors experiences and shares thoughts on living life more fully by engaging all our senses all the time. Here you will find essays on taste in all its permutations, wine tasting notes, travel reviews and photography, and reflections on the many ways food, wine and the arts intersect to increase our experience of the world around us. It's time to taste your world!
(C) Lyn Farmer
Benvenuto Brunello, an event held simultaneously in eight cities worldwide, was the debut of the storied 2019 vintage of Brunello di Montalcino, Tuscany’s classic, iconic and all-sangiovese wine. I was the presenter for one of the three American debut tastings, and have the story here.