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Monday, December 19, 2005 Musical Chairs On Thursday I played a short set at a coffeehouse run by a college group my brother heads, and hanging out with people there I discovered that one of the members is from Redford and was the bassoonist who, back in junior high, auditioned into the high school band but never went to Thurston because he ended up at Interlochen Fine Arts Academy instead. Fast forward a few years and Mike is now interning with the Detroit Symphony, playing 20 weeks of concerts a year. On Sunday we went to hear the Detroit Symphony play Beethoven's Ninth, and the amusement started as a result of his lateness picking me up (and thus, a late arrival to the concert): the ushers don't seat people while the music is playing, and since there were no particularly good breaks to seat us in they offered us a couple of chairs in the back of the box level rather than our actual seats. Then they saw that two seats were open in a spot that we could reach without having to crawl through listening patrons, so we sat there. Until the people who bought tickets for those places appeared ten minutes later. So we were back to the chairs in the back. Then a woman whose affiliation with the DSO is unclear but important in some capacity recognized Mike and told us to sit at another set of two seats that were fairly unobtrusive. One usher started to bring us there and the usher who was apparently in charge stopped us, adamantly making her point that she was not allowed to seat people during the symphony. To which the woman Mike knew replied, "But I want them to sit there." A small struggle of power ensued, which resulted in us sitting in the disputed seats. And Mike and I found the whole situation quite amusing. ^ Top | 12:30 PM | | | 
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