{"id":181,"date":"2012-11-12T20:20:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challenge.dev2.formbox.biz\/blog\/?p=181"},"modified":"2012-11-12T20:20:28","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T20:20:28","slug":"detroit-symphony-orchestra-returns-with-3711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/detroit-symphony-orchestra-returns-with-3711\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit Symphony Orchestra Returns with 37\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dso-group-e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-182 alignleft\" title=\"dso group e\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dso-group-e-262x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><em>Saturday night, 7:50 p.m.<\/em> After enjoying a wonderful dinner at Cass Caf\u00e9, a very stylish group of classy Challenge Detroit fellows prepare to leave. Chairs are pushed back, jackets and shawls draped around shoulders, and heels are tightened. As the group makes its way down the stairs and out into the breezy night air, the fellows chat excitedly about their next destination\u2014the Max M. Fisher Music Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Fisher Center itself is a gorgeous building. The glass doors opened, and we were welcomed into a spacious foyer by the sounds of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. While waiting for the rest of the group of congregate, I had a few minutes to explore the space. I walked up the four flights of stairs, and looked around at the various posters, photographs, and light displays celebrating music within the community.<\/p>\n<p>From my upper balcony seat, I enjoyed the show with my fellow fellows. It was an incredible musical event, where the renowned DSO performed three pieces (Aaron Copland\u2019s <em>Rodeo Ballet<\/em>, John Williams\u2019 <em>The Five Sacred Trees, <\/em>and Sergei Rachmaninoff\u2019s <em>Symphony No. 1 in D minor<\/em>). It was an exhilarating movement as we transitioned from piece to piece. It really didn\u2019t even seem like we were sitting still, listening to classical music. They were more like movie scores, perhaps. Really incredible scores.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dso-e1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-186\" title=\"dso e\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dso-e1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dso-ticket-e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-187\" title=\"dso ticket e\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/dso-ticket-e-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thing that struck me the most about the performance was the <em>bigness<\/em> of it all. I couldn\u2019t believe that the group of people sitting on the stage below me was making all that music. No speakers, no microphones. Just individual artists playing their instruments. The acoustics, the volume, the feeling, the grandeur of it all left me with the most spectacular sensation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There is something about music, isn\u2019t there? Because music says the things we can\u2019t say ourselves. And the DSO certainly said it well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed by Fellow Bithiah Lee<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night, 7:50 p.m. After enjoying a wonderful dinner at Cass Caf\u00e9, a very stylish group of classy Challenge Detroit fellows prepare to leave. Chairs are pushed back, jackets and shawls draped around shoulders, and heels are tightened. As the group makes its way down the stairs and out into the breezy night air, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}