Well, the good news is that Dan's snoring was much better last night - he put one of those little strip things on his nose. More good news - he is not burning with a fever. The bad news - he was really cold all night. He kept rolling up to me and clinging, and he felt as if someone had just pulled him out from a refrigerator. Poor poor man. He made himself go to work this morning, but you could tell he felt all fuzzy in his head.
I have to go do my ankle weight exercises, eat lunch, take my medicine, and get ready for work.
I have tomorrow night off from work, maybe that will keep me going tonight.
Tomorrow a doctor's appointment for blood pressure/asthma and tomorrow night a really cool sounding concert if Dan feels up to going to it.
from the UMS website at http://www.ums.org
Myung-Whun Chung, conductor
Tuesday, March 20, 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
| Main Floor | $75 · $68 · $60 · $36 |
| Mezzanine | $60 · $50 · $10 |
| Balcony | $44 · $36 · $20 · $10 |
Symphonie fantastique was written by the 27-year-old Hector Berlioz just three years after Beethoven’s death and to this day, the piece evokes a wide range of emotions. Inspired by Thomas de Quincy’s 1822 autobiographical work, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, the musical narrative represents a man’s hallucination of a torrid love affair that ends in his execution for the lover’s murder.
Perhaps no orchestra is better suited to present this all-French program, which also includes Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite, than the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, which made its UMS debut in Detroit’s Orchestra Hall in November 2002 during the Hill Auditorium renovation. Their astonishing performance of Messiaen’s “Turangalîla” Symphony, also under the direction of their Korean-born music director Myung-Whun Chung, drew rapturous comments from those in attendance. Chung, who distinguished himself as music director of the Opéra Bastille in Paris, comes from a musical family and is a widely celebrated pianist as well as conductor.
Please Note: There will be no late seating before intermission for this concert.
Program
· Ravel : Ma mère l'oye (Mother Goose Suite, complete ballet music) (1911)
· Berlioz : Symphonie fantastique, H. 48 (1830
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