Classical musicians were the rock stars of their day, much like the rock stars of today are the notaries public of tomorrow. Stamp your senses with the finely crafted tunes of today’s GrouponLive deal to the Festival City Symphony at The Pabst Theater. All seating is general admission. All performances begin at 3 p.m., with special children's program notes for young audiences beginning at 2:45 p.m. Choose from the following options:
- For $4, you get one child's ticket (up to an $8 value).
- For $14, you get two adult tickets (up to a $28 value).
- For $27, you get four adult tickets (up to a $56 value).
Tickets are valid for the following performances:
- "And All That Jazz" on Sunday, January 29, at 3 p.m.
- "Give Me That Country Life" on Sunday, March 25, at 3 p.m.
- "A Musical Grand Tour" on Sunday, April 29, at 3 p.m.
For more than 75 years, the Festival City Symphony has performed lively renditions of classic masterpieces in casual concerts that please the ears of children and learned music students alike. Against the lush backdrop of The Pabst Theater, this season's Symphony Sundays indulge ear palates in globetrotting sounds spanning a wealth of genres. "And All That Jazz" melds classical and bebop musicianship as jazz pieces such as Darius Milhaud's The Creation of the World stir in a melodious martini with the fluttery bombast of George Gershwin. "Give Me That Country Life" escorts audiences to rural France as the orchestra joins acclaimed soprano Patrice Michaels in a salute to rustic living, spotlighting traditional Canteloube folk songs and Rossini overtures that evoke the days before wireless cheese. Symphony Sundays conclude with "A Musical Grand Tour" of Scotland, Italy, and Fantasy Island, steered by the transcendent tunes of Mendelssohn, Marcello, and Howard Hanson's Romantic Symphony. Children's program notes boost enjoyment and comprehension in enhancing preshow activities that alleviate oboe anxiety in young-uns.
Though the Festival City Symphony offers discounted tickets for $8 for student and seniors, this Groupon still offers the best deal available.
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With the New Year's season barreling down upon us, the lyrics of the traditional anthem of annuity, "Auld Lang Syne," suggest that "auld acquaintance be forgot." Who are the most commonly forgotten acquaintances?
• Ex-brother-in-law's former mailman's stepdad
• "Soulmate" from space camp
• Various Glens
• Neighbor's jerk dog
• The hardware-store paint-mixer attendant whom you don't talk to as much now that the nursery is completed
• Bug-eating childhood friend
• Friend-eating childhood bug
• Waiter who sat down in booth with you
• Middle son
• Bill Clinton. Clonton? Clinton.
• Keith
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