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shelley music director designate of the pacific symphony and his orchestra have taken them on first it was ravel s daphnis and chloe thursday night in segerstrom concert hall it was stravinsky s complete score to the firebird someone somewhere at some point decided it would be a good idea to present the firebird with animation it would be projected above the orchestra on a giant screen as the orchestra played the music the animation would tell the story that the music without the benefit of dancers costumes and sets cannot tell on its own so far not a bad idea but then it all depends on the animation that s created the pacific symphony turned to a local company called fowler amusement to do the job less than two minutes into the video give or take i knew this had been a bad idea i ll spare the reader an extended critique of the video because just about everything about it was off on the plus side the colors were nice there s that it followed the general outlines of the original scenario too but the computer generated images or however generated the pacific symphony called them human generated and specifically warned they were not ai of the people and creatures in the story had a weird look a primitive look as if created say in 1999 the eyes had that odd uncanny look of early computer animation and prince ivan added the strangest set of eyebrows this side of andy rooney worse still was the way these characters moved awkwardly stiltedly their feet not quite on the ground ivan climbed a fortress wall looking like a constipated spider what s more there was very little dancing in the video even when stravinsky supplied lively dance music an awful lot of staring off into space took its place instead what dancing there was was stiff ungainly you wanted to tell the dancers to relax but they wouldn t have heard you anyway there s more but enough it didn t work i eventually stopped looking at the video or tried to as did my guest but was then faced with the initial problem that is listening to a complete ballet with its many discursions and tangents in concert without dancers the complete firebird as hinted doesn t really work in concert that s why stravinsky made the suites which do shelley conducted it without score and the orchestra responded gracefully if not quite as tidily as in previous shelley collaborations some of it seemed a little undercharacterized skated over but light is probably better than heavy here the first half of the concert brought the young american violinist aubree oliverson to the stage with korngold s violin concerto she gave it a charming well managed reading that didn t quite plumb its full beauties korngold said that he imagined more of a caruso than a paganini for the solo part this performance needed more caruso interesting to note both oliverson and shelley in spoken remarks before the korngold failed to mention that the themes in the work were taken from his movie scores was this part of the old prejudice against film music oliverson s entertaining encore was menuhin caprice by mark o connor arranged by herself shelley did mention that all of the composers on the program john adams stravinsky and korngold had lived or live in california trivia stravinsky actually lived in los angeles longer than any other place in his life including russia the concert opened with adams short ride in a fast machine a piece that has made the rounds of course but not played here for more than 25 years shelley and ensemble gave it the requisite vim but missed some of its danger this vehicle was a little too sleek to register the dangerous bumps and turns photo courtesy of pacific symphony share this share on linkedin opens in new window linkedin email a link to a friend opens in new window email share on facebook opens in new window facebook like loading classical music reviews alexander shelley pacific symphony stravinsky january 16 2026 5 comments william schuman appears on what s my line 1962 share this share on 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