If you grew up in a big Italian family with a last name like Giannetti, Marangi, or in my family’s case, DiAgostino, you’ve been drinking Italian, French, and Napa Valley wine with your Sunday plate of rigatoni and homemade red gravy since you were young. Growing up in such a food-and-drink driven culture with generations of foodies, top notch cooks, cheese snobs, and wine connoisseurs in my own family made me acquire strong predispositions about what I think “good” food and “good” wine is.
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PA Wines—Molto Bene!
Posted in Green Initiatives, Performing Arts, tagged behind-the-scenes, Cabernet Savaigion, Chaddsford, Chaddsford winery, chardonnay, cheese, eric miller, food, italian, jazz, june 4, lee miller, local food, Longwood, Longwood blog, Longwood Garden, Longwood Garden’s, Longwood Garden’s blog, Longwood Gardens, Longwood Gardens blog, Merican, naked chardonnay, red wine sangria, sangria, the brandywine valley, wine, wine & jazz, wine & jazz festival, wine and jazz festival on June 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Notes from the Longwood Organ
Posted in Exhibits, Performing Arts, tagged aeolian organ, aolian organ, behind-the-scenes, event, events at Longwood, events at Longwood Gardens, exhibits, largest organ in the world, largest pipe organ in the world, Longwood, Longwood blog, Longwood Garden, Longwood Garden’s, Longwood Garden’s blog, Longwood Gardens, Longwood Gardens blog, Longwood organ, longwood's organ, performing arts, pipe organ on January 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Then there are those who know about our wonderful Aeolian Organ and have heard it before, live, on CD, or on the internet. The great news is that the restoration of Longwood Garden’s pipe organ is nearly complete! All 10,010 pipes have been restored. When the restored organ debuts during Longwood’s Organ Fanfare Weekend, February 4–6, the organ will sound just like it did when it was brand new in 1930.
Bluegrass in the Garden
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged behind-the-scenes, blue highway, bluegrass, garden groove, guest blogger, Longwood, Longwood blog, Longwood events, Longwood Garden, Longwood Garden events, Longwood Gardens, Longwood Gardens blog, music at Longwood, music at Longwood Gardens, Rob Ickes on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Longwood welcomes Rob Ickes, founding member of Blue Highway, as a guest blogger for Behind-the-Plants. Blue Highway will be performing at Longwood Gardens this Saturday, July 11 at 7:30 pm.
Fire & Water—A Magical Combination
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged ABBAcadabra, Adagio, Aram Khachaturian, artistic display, behind-the-scenes, Dance of the Rose Maidens, design, display, du Pont, du Pont family, fire, fire and water, fireworks, fireworks and fountains, fireworks display, fireworks impresarios, Founder’s Favorites, fountain show, fountains, Galop, Gayaneh, Khachaturian Cavalcade, Lezghinka, Longwood, Longwood blog, Longwood Garden, Longwood Gardens, Longwood Gardens blog, Masquerade, Mazurka, Music, Nocturne, Pierre du Pont, pyrotechnics, romance, Sabre Dance, show stopping, showstopper, Spartacus, spectacular, The Magic of ABBA, Waltz, water on May 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The du Pont family has been fascinated with pyrotechnics for nearly two centuries, which is not surprising since they manufactured explosives. Longwood’s founder Pierre du Pont (1870-1954) was one of the family’s most enthusiastic fireworks impresarios. The interest in both pyrotechnics and fountains that Pierre began nurturing more than a hundred years ago has exploded into arguably the most artistic display of fire and water to be found anywhere.
Jazz in Bloom
Posted in Performing Arts, tagged audio, behind-the-scenes, cabana, denise king, floral, garden jazz, gardening, guest blogger, informal, jazz, jazz fest, jazz festival, jazz performance, jazz singer, jazz venue, kennett square, Longwood, Longwood blog, Longwood Garden, Longwood Gardens, Longwood Gardens blog, music in the garden, picnic, relax, singing, wine and jazz, wine and jazz fest, wine and jazz festival, wine fest, wine festival on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Longwood is thrilled to welcome Jazz Singer Denise King at a “guest blogger” on Behind-the-Plants! Denise will be performing at Longwood this Saturday, during the Wine & Jazz Festival, as the opening act for McCoy Tyner. This will mark her second appearance at the Festival. Find out more about Denise on her MySpace page.
