Fancy Night Out

This last Saturday I got to dress up and be fancy again. My brother, Doug is taking a Music Appreciation class in college and as part of the course he has to attend some fine arts concerts. So he and I went to the Las Vegas Smith's Center and watched the St. Petersburg's Philharmonic Orchestra.

The building was located just 20 minutes from our homes and was really easy to get to. I've decided to try and go to a concert at least once a year. To get more cultured.

We arrived just before 6:30 pm so we were an hour early, meaning we got a great parking spot, and we got to people watch for an hour.

 

We found a nice birds eye view spot up on the second balcony hallway. These pictures are of the lobby an hour early before the show. It filled completely up by the time they opened the doors. For his assignment, Doug had to observed the people who came to the concert. We noticed that there were a lot of the older generation. But we did see a couple young families with their children all dressed up. We even got to help a little old woman locate her confused and lost husband. They were cute and ended up sitting right behind us.

We were up on the second balcony and had a great view of the stage. I don't believe there was a bad seat in the house.

I didn't get a shot of the orchestra because cameras were band during the performance. But that stage filled up. The performance lasted almost two hours but it felt like it was only a few minutes, the music was so masterfully played you wanted to keep listening to it. And they looked like they were having a lot of fun. At the end the audience give a loud applause, some people standing, others shouting "bravo!" The concert master was happy to get the conductor to come out for two encores. Ending the night with a fun moment of the conductor dragging his concert master off the stage so he couldn't make him do any more encore.

It was a really fun and Doug still has to go to one more concert for his class. He is thinking of seeing the Las Vegas Philharmonic Orchestra in April...this time taking Mom and Dad. If you've never heard the St. Petersburg Philharmonics you need to, they are amazingly talented.