Cognac Reign

Get out on the danse parquet and let your powdered wig down to vivacious viola de gamba grooves. It’s baroque, baby!

Baroque music has been a fixture in my life since I was very young. Many a morning did I jolt awake to Royal Fireworks or Lully’s Te Deum. When we were kids, my sister & I hated it. But in college I fell hard for Classical Music. It has become a constant in the background of my life. I like to think about the wild soirees that must have gone down at the court of Louis the Sun King: Bacchanal bliss with baroque tunes that now sound quite prim & proper. We need to start having parties like that again.

You get on the subway & get off at Versailles. What would a 300-year-old cognac barrel cracked open on the F train smell like?

-D.S.