EDMONTON -- The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is offering a special way to serenade your loved ones this Valentine's Day.
ESO's Valentine’s Jukebox is offering a "one-of-a-kind musical Valentine" for $80.
"We chose these pieces just because they’re pretty, uplifting and they so clearly express love and intimacy," said Laura Veeze of the song choices she and her partner Robert Uchida made.
Veeze and Uchida met 16 years ago in New York while playing in a string quartet.
Now they're married and play with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. This week they're helping to spread the love this Valentine's Day.
Four ESO couples were asked to pick two of their favourite songs to perform for the Valentine’s Day series.
People can pick from a selection of eight songs, including "Our Love is Here to Stay" and "Je te veux," and tell ESO the custom message they'd like the musicians to deliver to their loved one.
"There have been romantic messages, raunchy messages, there’s even one, we can’t say too much about it but when we read it over, we thought, is that what we think it is," said Veeze.
The musicians are feeling the pressure to hit the right notes both on stage and in delivering the romantic messages.
"It's more of a responsibility than I was expecting," said Keith Hamm.
The proposal of a musical valentine is something another ESO couple thinks is needed this year.
"To celebrate love right now seems like a very important thing to do," said Julie Hereish.
The orchestra's website also includes the love story from each of the four couples and why they picked each song.
"Scott and I met in the ESO – workplace romance," said Kathryn Macintosh.
The telegrams are proving more popular than the ESO expected, they've been overloaded with requests for their Valentine's Jukebox.
"We find that it's such a nice reminder how important music is to people," said Veeze.
The deadline to order your modern day singing telegram is 12 p.m. MST on Feb. 11.
ESO will send the video links out by noon on Valentine's Day.
