The best meals and the best music make up a menu for the senses
By Paul Horsley
It's the night before Dubravka Tomsic's recital on the Friends of Chamber Music's piano series, and dinner is served.
The guests have worked up a sharp hunger in the living room with appetizers of Cognac-cured salmon on cocktail loaf, spread with butter-horseradish mustard.
Hosts Cynthia Siebert and Larry Hicks have spent the day preparing a gourmet meal for their guests, among them the Slovenian pianist who the next night would deliver two hours of stellar pianism to a Folly Theater audience.
Such dinners are an integral part of the Friends series, Siebert said, engendering a relationship that nourishes body and soul.
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