Live music unites people from all walks of life, unlike silence, which only unites librarians and people who crack safes. Bond over shared sound waves with today's GrouponLive deal: for $12, you get two general-admission tickets to see to see the Austin Civic Orchestra's classical pops concert at St. Martin's Lutheran Church on Saturday, September 17, at 7:30 p.m. (up to a $24 value).
Guided by the skillful baton of music director Lois Ferrari, the nationally recognized Austin Civic Orchestra tickles ears with classic and modern works performed by a volunteer, community-based ensemble. The classical pops concert brings listeners such time-tested favorites as Strauss's "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries," and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, filling concertgoers' minds with memorable melodies and dreams of being a Looney Tune. Music from Harry Potter leavens proceedings before Southwestern University music professor Eri Lee Lam showcases her skills in Bartok's Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra no. 2, bringing nimble fingers and lightning-fast bowing to the Hungarian-folk-dance-inspired piece. The concert will take place in the capacious St. Martin's Lutheran Church, with high ceilings giving quarter notes plenty of space to resonate and play games of Red Rover before finding their way to ears.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Animal Sounds
Identifying animal sounds isn't just for schoolchildren and the professional hunters who capture most of the meat our nation eats today—it's a skill that might just save your life. Test your knowledge by matching the animals to their telltale noises:
The Animals
1) Dog
2) Parrot
3) Tony the Tiger
4) Dodo Bird
5) Human
The Noises
A. Er-Er-Ber
B. Cluck-Cluck
C. Argh!
D. Bow-Wow
E. They’re Grrrrreat!
The Answers
1) D Dogs go Bow-Wow. Animal behaviorists believe this signature howl is short for "Bow, humans! Wow, you're not doing it…." Dogs hate humans.
2) B Parrots go Cluck-Cluck, assuming that the parrots have been living with a chicken.
3) E Frosted Flakes' spokescat Tony the Tiger went They're Grrrrreat!, though he was recently fired after being photographed eating Cheerios in a men's hotel outside Orlando.
4) A Dodo birds went Er-Er-Ber. Or did they? We'll never know, because man hunted the flightless dodos to extinction, believing their bellies to be filled with gold. Granted, they were filled with gold, but now there's no bird-gold for the rest of us. Thanks a lot, humans.
5) C Humans go Argh! to express their innate frustration that stabbing plants doesn't cause a delicious sugary goop to come out, even though that worked once, with maple syrup.
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