Deirdre and I went to the symphony last weekend in Madison. We saw D's favorite piece, Shostakovich's Violin Concerto and she loved it (she describes it as a demented circus), so it was such a nice evening. Here's a YouTube of the piece we saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qeIlgnme2U
The symphony plays at the Overture Center, which is beautiful, and if I were classy and had many, many more friends, I would get married there.
Inside the theater, there's a beautiful organ and the whole thing was just beautiful.
Afterwards we went to a bar across the street called The Icon (half off your first drink when you show your concert ticket!). The walls were covered with giant photos of old stars like Marilyn, the Beatles, and Audrey and they play old movies on the TV screens instead of annoying sports. It reminded me of a bar I love in Chicago called Kit Kat, minus the drag show that happens nightly.
The night may or may not have ended as classily as it began, but it was such a nice night! So much fun to see yet another side of Madison that didn't involve drunken sophomore boys.
Don't get me wrong, that's awesome too.
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