Join our classic shindig!! Ticket price, $65, includes the cost of the book and a cocktail!! Dress Fancy and enjoy yourselves with us and our classical authors!!
Make the acquaintance of two of New Orleans’ most beloved hosts and concert pianists, Michael and Quinn, who sure do know their shindigs. From seasonal celebrations to iconic book clubs to lavish parties for friends, family, and charities (both local and national), Michael and Quinn have seen, done, and decorated it all.
Enjoy the pairs’ authentic sense of style and design in their lush home and garden while exploring the joys of throwing unique and personal events. The pages are filled with hundreds of delightful photographs captured by twelve renowned Southern photographers that showcase the abundance of Michael and Quinn’s New Orleans Garden District home. Come away with hosting, interior design, and entertaining tips and tricks that even an amateur can execute.
Classical Shindig: Amateur Artistry from the Simple to the Sublime is complete with more than sixty recipes for every occasion, QR codes for recorded
movements of their concertos given in support of community causes, illustrations by acclaimed artists Paul Cox and Tug Rice, and delightful stories all the way from Mississippi County, Arkansas, to the oak-lined streets of New Orleans. Between adventures in piano concerti with orchestras and entertaining New Orleans’ natives, the British monarchy, and everyone in between—there’s nothing these two won’t do to celebrate their love of food, music, and people.
About the Authors:
Michael Harold, a lawyer and native of New Orleans, is the owner of YSR Search LLC. He earned a degree in Spanish from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee and a J.D. from Louisiana State University law school. He began studying the piano at the age of eight and, in 1979, played a Haydn piano concerto with a local community orchestra in New Orleans. He is an avid reader and, since 1994, has enjoyed membership in a beloved monthly book club which satiates his love of serving food to friends, discussing novels, and entertaining at home. He serves on the boards of numerousorganizations focusing on Spanish and French culture and education as well as classical music. He continues to study languages and piano music with local and national professors.
Born in Osceola, Arkansas and reared there and in Memphis,Tennessee, Quinn Peeper practices obstetrics and gynecology at Touro Infirmary, New Orleans, where he also researches postpartum depression. After finishing Washington and Lee University (B.S.), he attended University College, Oxford (B.A., M.A), and then entered Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D.). In 2015, Dr. Peeper graduated from the Harbert College of Business, Auburn University (M.B.A.). Quinn has had extensive piano training under the tutelage of acclaimed pianists--even winning a competition at the Istituto Musicale Nicola Vaccaj in Italy. His Carnegie Hall debut was in 1997. In 2004 and 2022, he played Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He is Chairman of The English-Speaking Union, US and a trustee of the National Trust for Scotland, US, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Pirate’s Alley William Faulkner Society. He is His Britannic Majesty’s Honorary Consul to New Orleans.