Shelley Conducts The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Strauss

Name: Shelley Conducts The Sorcerer’s Apprentice & Strauss
Start: 2026-10-23T20:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-10-23T22:00:00-07:00
Location: Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

October 23 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

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$40 – $150

October 22-24, 8pm

October 25, 3pm

These are melodies you know, leaping from the symphony to the silver screen. Conductor Alexander Shelley brings orchestral magic with Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (Disney’s Fantasia) and Strauss’ dramatic tone poem, featuring its iconic sunrise fanfare (2001: A Space Odyssey). Virtuoso James Ehnes debuts a sweeping Violin Concerto by film composer James Newton Howard.

Alexander Shelley, conductor
James Ehnes, violin

Pacific Symphony

DUKAS: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
JAMES NEWTON HOWARD: Violin Concerto No. 2 (October 22, 23, and 24 only)
STRAUSS: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Preview Talk at 7 p.m. with Classical California midday host Alan Chapman. (October 22, 23, and 24 only)