Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in Concert at the Nashville Symphony

On Christmas Day this year in my stocking were three tickets to the symphony for one of their movie concert series where they remove the music from the movie and play along. It is to attract younger audiences. They were going to do it to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and I was excited because I am a huge Harry Potter geek! I was excited even though it was so far away...in May! (The first of the series that was going to be in January was apparently already sold out!) So we bought a Harry Potter themed wallet at the mall where we were visiting family in New Jersey, and kept the tickets in there for five whole months!
Five months later...I went to the symphony on May 2oth. The fancy name for the building is the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. I saw many adults go there without kids even. Mom's theory was that they were the first generation of kids who read the book when it first came out (in 1997) who would be around thirty now! In fact there were more grown-ups than adults there. Some of the people were in costume. I was not in costume because I thought that was a little dorkish, but I would have worn my shirt from Universal's Harry Potter World but I forgot. I was seated with a nice father and daughter. One of the best things was the Butterbeer. Butterbeer is a famous beverage in the Harry Potter books/movies. It tastes like butter meets root beer...buttery, fizzy and super sweet!
First thing the conductor said something like " you are a polite audience but you can applaud or go crazy for your favorite characters" that made it really fun because people cheered for Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbaldore, Snape, etc.  (I cheered the most for Harry.) The score was incredible and the truth is when I watch the Harry Potter films I always liked the score but not that much. BUT, the symphony made it 100 times better! The music made me feel cheerful and sad and suspenseful and excited. The music was written by the great John Williams. He wrote the score for Star Wars, Jurrasic Park, ET, Indiana Jones. Jaws, Superman AND Home Alone! Oh my gosh, that's amazing. The musicians were awesome, they were the best part because the live music made it exciting! I'm excited because next year they are doing The Prisoner of Askaban on March 16th-March 18th.
I know that's a long time from now but they have other cool movies in concert before then. Next up they have Dreamworks Animation In Concert on June 16th where basically they play along to movies like Shrek, Madagascar, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon. Tickets are $17-$54 and you can get them at nashvillesymphony.instantencore or call 1-615-687-6400. If you talk to our friend Bama (who works there and is awesome) tell him Dock sent you!