Date: October 22-24, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Genre: Classical Music, Orchestral Performance

Tickets: https://www.pacificsymphony.org/show-details/shelley-conducts-the-sorcerers-apprentice-and-strauss

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

STRAUSS: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Preview Talk at 7 p.m. with Classical California midday host Alan Chapman.