• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Scientific Ink

Dunrie Greiling Ph.D., Ann Arbor, MI 48105

  • Author
    • Internet Marketing Start to Finish
      • Internet Strategy
    • Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life
  • About Dunrie
  • Contact
You are here: Home / Life / Dead Composers

Dead Composers

November 6, 2006 by Dunrie

So, on a lark I attended the Dead Composers Society event on Saturday evening. It was dinner at Cottage Inn followed by tickets to the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra‘s concert at the Michigan Theater. Husband was otherwise committed so I went solo. And though I’d planned to meet a friend there, I saw only strangers when I entered the downstairs banquet room at Cottage Inn. (Gulp, flee!!)

Happily for me, the strangers were quite friendly and not unusually strange, and there was a non-goofy ice-breaker that got the tables talking and got folks mixing, so by the time my friend Dara arrived, I was doing just fine.

I am embarassed to say that before Saturday morning, I had no idea that Ann Arbor had a professional orchestra. The program was interesting–the first piece was a world premiere composed by a current UM music student, two of the other three were by actual dead composers (Beetoven, Gershwin), the last was by another living one (Peter Maxwell-Davies). The bagpipes in the Maxwell-Davies piece were affecting (first time bagpipes have ever made me tear up, ever), perhaps some of it was just the surprise of them coming from the back of the Theater. Overall a nice evening, and nice folks.

Anyway, I have twisted Dave’s arm hard enough that he’s coming with me to the next items in the series. The more the merrier if anyone else wants to join. The next one is January. Let me know if I should arrange additional tix.

Filed Under: Life

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. eric says

    November 23, 2006 at 1:26 PM

    That sounds like a good time. If it doesn’t conflict with the New Orleans schedule, I’d be into it!

Footer

Latest Book

Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life

View Book »

Internet Marketing Book

Internet Marketing Start to Finish

View Book »

Search

Share!

© Copyright 2006-2017 Scientific Ink · All Rights Reserved ·