Performing a benefit concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night (May 12) at the Fox Theatre, according to Kid Rock was "the best drunk move I ever made," have received the call while he was enjoying some post-show libation backstage in Louisville during the spring of 2011.
On paper it certainly looked a little...screwy. The likes of "Bawitdaba," "Devil Without a Cause" and "You Never Met a Mother****** Quite Like Me" hardly seem like orchestral fare, and the DSO has surely never before worked with vocalists who drop liberal F-bombs and sing about prostitute, pimps, drugs and debauchery. The orchestra may play Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," but the terrain of Rock's song is little more, well, common in the rawest sense of the word.
Worlds collided at the Fox Theatre on Saturday night.
Fans in tuxedos mixed with fans in jeans and T-shirts. Beethoven ran up against "Bawitdaba." And Leonard Slatkin, the music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, went head-to-head with Kid Rock, as Rock conducted his own version of the DSO, his Twisted Brown Trucker band.
It was all part of Rock's fundraiser for the DSO, the idea for which was hatched more than a year ago. And the evening was a resounding success: The Fox was a full house, and Rock announced late in the show that the concert had met its goal of raising $1 million for the DSO.
Read the full article and see more photos at DetroitNews.com.
The Detroit Symphony's fundraiser concert with Kid Rock on Saturday night at the Fox Theater rocked the house and generated $1 million for the DSO.
Shortly after 8 p.m., Rock hit the stage at the Fox dressed in a tuxedo and wearing a fedora for his performance with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. DSO conductor Leonard Slatkin, in a nod to Rock, sported his own fedora.
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