Savoring the Score - Music Meets Food Through Sensory Storytelling

Introduction:

Savoring the Score is an immersive experience that pairs a seasonal tasting menu with a live recital. Created upon a thoughtfully curated concert program, each piece is paired with an original dish that translates musical elements into flavors, textures, and culinary narratives. These pairings are crafted to evoke specific memories, emotions, and sensory impressions, guiding the audience through a cohesive arc of storytelling.

This edition of Savoring the Score traces love in all its forms, from grief and passion, romance and ambition, to transformation and farewell. Each pairing embodies a chapter of love, unfolding as a journey through the chambers of the heart. Together, the program embraces imperfection, complexity, and transience, asking us to savor love not as perfection, but as a journey, tender, flawed, bittersweet, and luminous.

More than just a tasting menu, the experience is interactive: guests are invited to engage with their food, add finishing touches, and quite literally shape their own journey. Through these moments of play and reflection, Savoring the Score invites us to savor love not as a fixed ideal, but as something lived, felt in layers, held in tension, and ultimately, shared.
Learn more about the project and past events at herbanomnivore.com.

Amy Beach Op. 23 - Romance for Violin and Piano (1893)

Jeno Hubay Op. 3 No. 3 - Carmen Fantaisie brilliante 1876)

Antonin Dvorak Op. 11 - Romance in F minor (1879)

Olivier Messiaen - Theme et variations (1932)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Souvenir d’un lieu cher Op. 42 No. 3 - Melodie in E-flat Major (1878)

Manuel Ponce - Estrellita arr. Heifetz (1912)

Phoebe Wu - Violin / Culinary & Creative Director

Vanness Yu - Piano / Musical Director

This edition features a six-course interactive tasting menu designed to evolve with the music. Guests will be invited to engage with their food through tactile elements, finishing touches, and edible symbolism.

Wine will be available for guests over 21 throughout the evening.

The menu is vegetarian-friendly; however, we regret that gluten-free and vegan diets cannot be accommodated.

General Admission: $70 (plus fees)

Hillside Club Members: $65 (plus fees)

Students: $55 (plus fees)

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