Press Release

For Immediate Release

Feb. 8, 2010

Contact: Tom Mason, 432-9927

Who Dat going to the Symphony!

MSO offers special discounts to Saints fans for upcoming concert

            The Mobile Symphony Orchestra (MSO) is celebrating the Saints' amazing Super Bowl victory by offering a 20 percent discount on tickets to its Feb. 27 & 28 concerts of popular French classical music at the Saenger Theatre in downtown Mobile.

            The "French Connection" concerts were already being promoted with posters, ads and postcards featuring French landmarks and a large fleur de lis. When the NFL created an uproar by claiming ownership of both the fleur de lis and the "Who Dat!" cheer, the MSO clearly sided with the fans. After Sunday's Saints' victory, MSO quickly pasted Saints' logos over the existing fleur de lis emblems on concert posters.

            Here's the deal: Saints fans can bring any fleur de lis image to the box office to receive a 20% discount on tickets to the February concerts. "It's a great deal on great music," Greg Gordon, COO of the MSO explained. "Fans simply need to show any fleur de lis image - t-shirt, jersey, bumper sticker, internet download, anything to show their support for the Saints - to receive the discount.

            "The MSO is clearly part of the Who Dat Nation," Gordon said. "We're a regional orchestra with musicians from all along the Gulf Coast - many of whom are devoted Saints fans." 

            French Connection is a musical tour of France and features such popular French compositions as Ravel's "Bolero" and Debussy's "Afternoon of a Faun." Performances are Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. and a Sunday matinee performance on Feb. 28 at 2:30 p.m.

            Individual tickets are $15-$55 (before the discount) and can be purchased online at www.mobilesymphony.org, by phone at 251-432-7080, or at the symphony box office, 257 Dauphin Street. Students, K-12, are free for Sunday matinee performances when accompanied by a paying adult through the Big Red Ticket program. All concerts are at the Saenger Theatre, 6 South Joachim St., in downtown Mobile. For more information visit the symphony Web site at www.mobilesymphony.org