teatro del maggio musicale florentino - better known as my shower

We wish we could sing - not shower sing, or humming to ourselves in the stock room or lip sync time in the car. You know what we mean. That magic voice only we hear in our heads.

In this Tuscan week here at the shop we were thinking about this some when one of our local characters wandered in to enquire about the tasting (Saturday - 3 to 6pm - 132 Front Street here in Greenport - Tuscan Wines, Great Rustic Breads from Blue Duck Bakery, the view from the store window...and smiles, lotsa smiles....and some thoroughly Italian music

in the background.  He knew of our composer hero, Puccini,  who died half a century back.  Puccini was born in Lucca, Tuscany - a town just about due east of us (over the horizon) and found his way to New York after WWI - hopefully to Greenport on some vacation jaunt (now that would indeed be a neat thing). He promised to drop by a CD of our hero's music sung by people who actually can sing - wow! Just the ticket.

Hey! In for a dime, in for a dollar we always say. ... and by the way, we will be the store with music from heaven pouring forth along with bread and wine... This is gonna be fun.