Speaker 1: Somebody sent me something and wants to know if someone
Speaker 1: on the show wrote it.
Speaker 2: Sing it is to Missmanners. Hold on, here we go,
Speaker 2: dear mismanners. I have had season tickets. Who on the
Speaker 2: show wrote this season tickets?
Speaker 1: I have had season tickets to the orchestraiot. I have
Speaker 1: had season tickets to the orchestra for a couple of decades.
Speaker 1: For evening concerts, the orchestra wears white tie and women's
Speaker 1: soloists wear.
Speaker 3: Evening dresses fancy.
Speaker 1: For afternoon concerts, the soloists still wear evening dresses, and
Speaker 1: the men in the orchestra wear black suits, black shirts,
Speaker 1: and black ties. The musicians, who are women, however, wear
Speaker 1: an assortment of black clothes, from black slacks with a
Speaker 1: regular black shirt to an orchestra musician's traditional long black dress.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, some of the women look as though
Speaker 1: they should be turning on the TV and getting a
Speaker 1: big bowl of popcorn.
Speaker 2: Diane, who on the show would have written that?
Speaker 4: Tyler, Yes, the one who got excited about white tie.
Speaker 3: I never worn white tie.
Speaker 1: You, I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 5: Is that like a morning coat?
Speaker 3: It's gonna be like tails? And then everything I've never
Speaker 3: worn tails, so it's gonna be a white dress shirt,
Speaker 3: a white waistcoat or vest. The boat boat ties white
Speaker 3: that isen collar?
Speaker 2: Can I ask a question?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Is a is a What was the word that you said?
Speaker 3: I gave you?
Speaker 2: Yes? But what is? What was that word?
Speaker 3: Waistcoats? Waistcoats?
Speaker 2: Is that is that really what a vest is called?
Speaker 3: Ye's yeah, they'd interchangeable.
Speaker 1: Waistcoat when you when you say that, but then you
Speaker 1: say vest? Do you say vest like you're talking down
Speaker 1: to the peasants? I have on a waistcoat a vest?
Speaker 3: I should have just said waistcoat.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. Did you know what
Speaker 2: a waistcoat was?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: You?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: No, what avest is?
Speaker 4: I know what a vest is, but I didn't. I
Speaker 4: don't think I knew that waistcoat and vest were interchangeable.
Speaker 3: I've never heard of waistcoat, a waistcoat or vest in
Speaker 3: US and Canada. Sorry, should have just had a sleeveless
Speaker 3: upper body garment. Then you would know, Oh, yeah, I
Speaker 3: got sleeveless tease the Okay, so a waistcoat is a vest? Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, No, I've never worn a white what is it? White?
Speaker 3: Whitey? You said, you're in black or you're black tye
Speaker 3: optional this weekend.
Speaker 2: Thank you, which means I'll be wearing a regular suit. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean this is so white.
Speaker 5: It's high always is tails?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: Yes? No, no, yes, that's what it says.
Speaker 1: I thought, No, but when's the last time anybody wore tails?
Speaker 2: What problem were you at?
Speaker 3: Oh it's like a state dinner.
Speaker 1: You know, at the.
Speaker 5: That we've all been to, and or Thursday excuse.
Speaker 2: Me, mismanners.
Speaker 1: And that's what that's what they should be wearing at
Speaker 1: a Thursday matinee of the orchestra, not something that looks
Speaker 1: like a couch and a bowl of popcorn.
Speaker 3: Oh, she she said, white tie at the afternoon or
Speaker 3: matinee performances.
Speaker 2: No you would say that.
Speaker 3: No, No, I understand that you can dress down, but
Speaker 3: I also I totally understand what she's saying.
Speaker 2: Oh though, I even.
Speaker 3: You see it. It's been a while since I've gone
Speaker 3: to the orchestra. But I told you.
Speaker 5: Same.
Speaker 2: But have you ever been to an orchestra that that
Speaker 2: like a kid?
Speaker 5: Wasn't I'm sure somewhere over the years.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that the right down the number, Write
Speaker 1: down the number you've been to and I'll write down
Speaker 1: the number that I've been to.
Speaker 2: Write it big so I can see it. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say, did you write yours down? Kristen? All right,
Speaker 2: hold them up on three, one, two, three zeros.
Speaker 5: I was I was trying to think.
Speaker 1: Like you at wait, what turn yourself off?
Speaker 5: High school band?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: High school? Like some kids, orchestra doesn't count.
Speaker 3: I've gone to two as an adult.
Speaker 2: What orchestra have you ever been to?
Speaker 3: There's an orchestra down the road to Strathmore. And then
Speaker 3: in Chicago, I went to see the Chicago Symphony.
Speaker 1: Well, and then in high school we did that doesn't count.
Speaker 3: We did field trips, we had to dress up.
Speaker 2: Oh did you go white ti?
Speaker 1: Or did you wear something that looks like black that
Speaker 1: you would grab with a bowl of popcorn?
Speaker 3: We went to watch the Cleveland Symphony.
Speaker 2: Oh, wow, you've done some.
Speaker 1: I know someone in the Washington Symphony Orchestra. God, I
Speaker 1: hope it's a man, and I have never seen her perform.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a woman. Well, what I was
Speaker 1: trying to say, yes, is that men are very limited
Speaker 1: in formal wear. So when it comes to a performance
Speaker 1: like this, and this could even extend to the audience
Speaker 1: because you know, I would complain more about those attending
Speaker 1: these shows versus those up on stage. Everyone's trying to
Speaker 1: adhere to a theme. But for men, it's like it's
Speaker 1: a suit. Whether it is the tuxedo with tails or
Speaker 1: it's a black suit, it's that's it. I mean for
Speaker 1: the orchestra, women's wardrobe choices are so vast. If you
Speaker 1: just have to wear black, you could wear a black
Speaker 1: blouse and like they said, didn't they say slacks like it.
Speaker 1: It lends the closet, lends itself to a versatility that's
Speaker 1: not there for the men. And also, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: are you saying like somebody in the audience has to
Speaker 1: wear a tux the orchestra.
Speaker 3: No, if maybe, if it's like something at a palace. No, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm saying I'm surprised this person's okay with everyone because
Speaker 3: they said they've been a holder of season tickets for decades,
Speaker 3: they've seen a change in what the patrons are wearing.
Speaker 3: I can tell you that.
Speaker 2: You don't have to get dressed up for any of that.
Speaker 5: No you don't know, you don't symphony, Yeah you should get.
Speaker 1: Is that different than the orchestra. No, same thing, right, Symphony,
Speaker 1: it's the symphony orchestra.
Speaker 5: They're they're they're probably very specific ways that they're different.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like.
Speaker 5: Person thinks the.
Speaker 3: Same thing the cso right, the.
Speaker 5: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we always dressed that Cincinnati.
Speaker 4: She had her clubs, she had her bedazzled Ohio shirt on.
Speaker 3: So do I again?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: I'm sorry? Yes?
Speaker 3: Do I see where this writer? It's not me? Do
Speaker 3: I see where this this writer is coming from?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Is it worth putting pen to paper for?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: No, Who cares?
Speaker 3: Or is it? Are they worried it's a slippery slope,
Speaker 3: like soon it's going to be like rifted black jean
Speaker 3: shorts for the women and white tanks.
Speaker 2: But as long as it sounds good, who cares?
Speaker 3: Uh? Sure? I mean I expected that that the quality
Speaker 3: of the musicians hadn't decreased.
Speaker 2: No, No, But I'm saying I've never been to an orchestra.
Speaker 2: But if I went to the.
Speaker 1: What's another good sea, the Corpus Christie Symphony Orchestra, Dammit,
Speaker 1: the I wouldn't.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't. I don't know what I would expect them
Speaker 2: to be wearing.
Speaker 1: But if I walked in and they were all wearing
Speaker 1: jeans and and like a button down, that wouldn't bother me.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't find that odd, I really would. Are they
Speaker 3: black jeans?
Speaker 4: The No?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Would that? Would that throw you off?
Speaker 4: I would think it would look out of place because
Speaker 4: you're used to seeing people like that wearing like nighttime
Speaker 4: attired women in dresses.
Speaker 5: No no, no, no.
Speaker 4: But like like a floor length of gollons most of
Speaker 4: the time. I would your friend in the National Symphony,
Speaker 4: I bet has a couple of very specific gowns that she.
Speaker 3: Wears, probably just for the evening shows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, during the day, it looks like she's got popcorn
Speaker 1: all over Elliot would know. No, No. The only the
Speaker 1: only thing that I feel like that, that you know,
Speaker 1: people dress up for is the ballet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, why would that be any different.
Speaker 1: Because like the band, Like, isn't there a band that
Speaker 1: plays to the ballet?
Speaker 3: The orchestra, I guess some band.
Speaker 2: Is there a band that performs in Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I guess some balants could be have like
Speaker 3: a track.
Speaker 2: They may.
Speaker 3: I don't know how big the operation is, but yes
Speaker 3: the orchestra, sure, okay, But they're but they're hidden unless
Speaker 3: they start. Sometimes you see this, and it may it's
Speaker 3: not just ballt but you'll see it in musicals and
Speaker 3: stuff where the orchestra is lowered into the pit so
Speaker 3: you see them at first, so they're not completely obscured
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: So that thing goes up and down. Yeah, I got
Speaker 2: you so at A.
Speaker 1: So if you work for the like the the Washington
Speaker 1: Symphony Orchestra, yeah.
Speaker 2: I should ask my friend, you have to you have
Speaker 2: to play for?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know what their requirements.
Speaker 2: Are, like do they have to do ballets and stuff?
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 3: I don't know that. Like what's what's currently playing in town?
Speaker 3: Who is accompanying the the dancers at where I'm looking
Speaker 3: up here in DC? Like the Washington Ballet.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I was kind of narrating my own search. I wasn't
Speaker 3: asking you what is their current in the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: five twenty six season, Diane? What are they?
Speaker 2: I don't even know where they where do they act
Speaker 2: out of?
Speaker 3: Hold on?
Speaker 2: Is that the one on Wisconsin Avenue? The way Washington Ballet?
Speaker 3: Let's see here for events?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I'm gonna grab line two in the meantime, Hi,
Speaker 2: Elliet at the morning. Hi is this me? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Hi?
Speaker 2: Who's this? Hi? My name is Aaron, Yes, Aaron. Are
Speaker 2: you in the ballet or in the orchestra? What I
Speaker 2: was called? I am not, but I go Austin like
Speaker 2: every week and I wear a flip flops.
Speaker 3: And T shirts and people come in wearing whatever they.
Speaker 1: Want hold on much like a polo player. Tyler just
Speaker 1: suffered a heart attack. Wait did you like let me
Speaker 1: dissect that a little bit. You go to the symphony
Speaker 1: every week.
Speaker 2: I go to the Richmond Symphony.
Speaker 5: They were like fifteen dollars a ticket.
Speaker 3: It's like the cheapest date night ever.
Speaker 2: But do you like, are you into that kind of music?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: They did a whole like they did radio Head. They
Speaker 2: did a whole radio Head, they did Tupac, They do.
Speaker 3: All sorts of fun stuff.
Speaker 2: What does the what does the orchestra wear or the symphony?
Speaker 5: I mean they wear like black.
Speaker 2: Like like like dressed stuff.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean some of the women wear like black
Speaker 3: blacks and like a black like.
Speaker 5: Shirt like a blouse.
Speaker 2: Right, it looks like they're eating popcorn. Hey, what is
Speaker 2: the I mean when you've dressed up before, but I
Speaker 2: usually atlan that's that's like fancy evening out.
Speaker 1: Who do you go with my friends and family?
Speaker 5: Like I sometimes we'll just get drunk and go wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, I thought they loved that. Good for you, Good
Speaker 2: for you? Do they know? Do they know you by name? No?
Speaker 3: But they do call me to try to get me
Speaker 3: to subscribe, like all the time.
Speaker 2: No, well that I believe going, I mean, customer.
Speaker 1: I was just wondering if you're one of those people
Speaker 1: that like, you're there every week and somebody like tune
Speaker 1: in a viola up there is like, oh great, there's
Speaker 1: drunk angie and or flip flops again.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's a wide nick.
Speaker 3: Some people are wearing textedos and some people are wearing
Speaker 3: jeans and tied our shirts.
Speaker 2: Wow, all right, very good, very good. I know which
Speaker 2: part of the crowd Tyler respects more?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 3: At least in the mezzanine. All I found was that
Speaker 3: the National Symphony Orchestra, especially during the holidays, So I'm
Speaker 3: assuming the Nutcracker.
Speaker 2: Oh they do the Nutcracker music, We'll do.
Speaker 3: It with the Washington Ballet. I don't know who's with
Speaker 3: them the rest of the year. Does that answer all
Speaker 3: your questions? I think let's see what's on the agenda
Speaker 3: for the Richmond Symphony. Serenades, some are serenades.
Speaker 2: Hey, everybody grab your pens again. I have another question.
Speaker 1: Let's write down number of ballet we've been to, not
Speaker 1: including children, Diane.
Speaker 3: I didn't see what either of you wrote. No, I
Speaker 3: just reinforced my.
Speaker 2: Last one two three, yees all zero, all zero.
Speaker 3: Seen the Nutcracker?
Speaker 5: I've never seen it in person.
Speaker 2: I have, I have.
Speaker 5: That's the ballet? Oh, switch it to one? No more
Speaker 5: than one?
Speaker 1: How many times did I see Michael do it?
Speaker 3: Michael who?
Speaker 5: Who? Michael who?
Speaker 2: Hitchcock? You don't know him?
Speaker 5: Is that your ballet's answer? Friend?
Speaker 2: Be No, But I'll tell you this.
Speaker 1: He went to school with is it my older one
Speaker 1: or my younger one? I can't remember if he's in
Speaker 1: a four or no. Six, But he went to school
Speaker 1: with one of my kids, and he went he got
Speaker 1: into ballet. He and so he was in the He
Speaker 1: was in the Nutcracker for a number of years.
Speaker 2: Fast forward, he got a full ride.
Speaker 3: Amazing.
Speaker 2: No to Rutgers as a cheerleader.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, he's crushing it, crushing it. But he was
Speaker 1: in the he was in the he was in the
Speaker 1: Nutcracker for a number of years.
Speaker 3: But aren't you proud to have supported him and continued
Speaker 3: encouraging him. Yeah, well, look you he's now living a
Speaker 3: life that you helped water in a pot.
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything. I went to the show.
Speaker 5: That's supporting the arts and him as a performer.
Speaker 2: I supported him. Yeah, we went for him.
Speaker 3: You were booing the other dancers.
Speaker 2: I thought this was Swan like