Mel Bonis, reading about food, and an interview gone awry

Sharon's Weekly Head Dump

At the Spotlight lunch in Chicago, I was seated next to Carlos Carrillo, who leaned over after I talked about playing the music of French Romantic women composers like Louise Farrenc and Cécile Chaminade, and said, “Have you heard of the composer Mel Bonis?”

I love when people do this, because the fact of the matter is that I started this micro-journey b…