Music in the D-Town

The winter is getting long, we feel like it has been snowing forever, and it doesn't seem to be improving lately. For us Spaniards, the snow is something beautiful because it is uncommon in our country. However, after several weeks it starts being something too normal and too inconvenient to still admire it. For these circumstances, the best thing to do is to look for activities indoors, like concerts, museums or theatre, in order to forget what is outside for a little while. And in fact, that is what we have been doing lately. We have discovered that there is a huge variety of musical offer around Detroit, weather you like classical, blues, rock, ... almost every night in the week there is something on.

Our first excursion of the year into the musical world of Detroit was to see the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) in the Orchestra Hall, we got tickets to see Carmina Burana. If the name doesn't ring the bell, you can watch the video in the link to see the most famous part, called "O Fortuna", sung at the beginning and at the end of the composition. It was the first time that we visited the DSO, and our experience was so great that we repeated some days ago. It is nice to have an offer of classical music, and it is affordable too. Here you can see some photos of the inside taken from the internet. It is a piece of art.

The second time we went, some of the musicians decided to bring humor to the piece they were interpreting, and instead of using the regular horns, they played an instrument used in parties for drinking games, consisting on a hose and a funnel. The surprising thing is that the sound is not bad at all.

A couple of days later, we changed the style and went to see the Arctic Monkeys in The Fillmore (thank God it was inside..). It was only Wednesday, but the city was very crowded. We enjoyed a nice shawarma close to the theatre before it opened (although some people were already waiting in line, it was so cold that we decided to wait as much as possible in the warmth).

Once we came inside, we could admire the beauty of the theatre, with nice golden decorations and a beautiful ceiling.

It was somehow weird to attend to a concert where a band is singing rock songs in a classic building. From the concert itself I will not share the videos, because the quality is not the best, and our seats were not the closest to the singers, but if you feel curious there are plenty of videos about the band in youtube. We liked it a lot.

And to close the chapter, I will upload a photo that we did yesterday when we went to Belle Isle, a small island situated between Detroit and Windsor, Canada. The views of Detroit from the isle were astonishing, especially with the ice layer that formed on the river. the layer has covered the river completely for weeks, in the very cold period we had in January. Now, after some days of milder temperatures, it is slowly starting to melt.

Thanks for reading,


Lita & Andres