Colorado Springs Philharmonic

For Christmas this year Mark got us a subscription to a concert series put on by the Colorado Springs Philharmonic. While we lived in Egypt we went to the Cairo Opera House all the time.  The Cairo Opera House is beautiful and the tickets were really affordable.  We went to ballets, operas and orchestras.  The series Mark subscribed to is called the Philharmonic Pops Series.  We went to performances of: Disney songs, Broadway songs, Casablanca (while watching it on the big screen) and this past weekend the music of John Williams.  All of these concerts were very well done but I think the John William's one this past weekend was my favorite. It is amazing all the scores he wrote for movies. We heard selections from: Indiana Jones, ET, Jurassic Park, Catch Me if You Can, Hook, Schindler's List, JAWS, Harry Potter, War Horse, Superman, and Star Wars.  Such great movies.  It was so fun. 
 What has been really fun about it is that two other couples that we are friends with also bought subscriptions to the same series so we would go out to dinner with them and then to the concert.  It was great.  We felt so grown up.  For Saturday's performance we had seats in the balcony for the first half and then we were able to move down to seats right on the stage because there were empty seats next to our friends.  It was awesome (and really loud, we were right by the percussion people who are my favorite to watch because they play so many fun instruments) to watch the musicians get ready for their parts.

As part of the performance this Saturday they had characters from some of the movies in the lobby that you could take pictures with. It was fun.

Mark already bought a subscription for next year as well so we will go to the following performances:

The Music of ABBA September 28, 2013

Heroes and Villains November 2, 2013

Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel January 11, 2014

Rodgers & Hammerstein February 8, 2014

Odyssey: Epic Destinations March 8, 2014

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean May 10, 2014

It's such a great, pre-planned date night!