The use of the screens for visuals was amazing and added a whole new dimension to the performance. I just let the music and visuals waft over me and got completely lost in the beauty of it all.
Bobbie Cusato, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Board Member
The good news is that our teenaged grandchildren enjoyed the program so much that they stayed at the table for the entire thing instead of wandering up to the loge to play games on their phones. They even texted their parents that they really liked it! So, it was the perfect program for them!
Margie Masterson, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Board Member
"What a treat! The Super POPS contingent of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra really wowed the audience with a performance of well known classical pieces performed with a great projected back screen video designed by Elliott Forrest.
Works such as Rimsky Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee excerpt from his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries from his opera Die Walküre and Gustav Mahler’s The Planets. They also added some less-classical but equally well know pieces from theatre and films. The effects were truly spectacular.
They wrapped up the performance, as is so often done on July 4th, with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, accompanied by appropriate cannon noises and fireworks. The concert under the baton of Michael Krajewski and with the added special effects was just a delight. I couldn’t help thinking that this is one they could so easily reprise at the Verizon Amphitheater next summer. Everybody enjoyed it."
--Robert J. Heller, Atlanta
"...the concert, the visuals, the conductor, the music, the audience engagement, etc was awesome."
"We are particularly thrilled to hear about all the young people who enjoyed it. It is indeed the future of what we do."
"Everybody I talked with, including my children loved it totally..."
"I wanted to tell you how much we enjoyed Saturday evening's performance. The visual effects were amazing. Excellent job!!"
"Thank you so much for including my son's photo in the screen show accompanying Saturday night's performance. My two grandsons, my husband, and I were so proud!"
"All of the Graphics were excellent and time quite precisely to the music. Kudos to the video producer."
"Now it is my turn to echo the kudos!! The concert was a terrific success on all counts and could not have been a more perfect conclusion to the Philadelphia Orchestra's time at the Mann this season. Thank you for a wonderful evening that was just perfect in every way."
"Fantasia for the 21st Century"
"...truly spectacular!"
-- AUDIENCE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS
Bobbie Cusato, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Board Member
The good news is that our teenaged grandchildren enjoyed the program so much that they stayed at the table for the entire thing instead of wandering up to the loge to play games on their phones. They even texted their parents that they really liked it! So, it was the perfect program for them!
Margie Masterson, Long Beach Symphony Orchestra Board Member
"What a treat! The Super POPS contingent of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra really wowed the audience with a performance of well known classical pieces performed with a great projected back screen video designed by Elliott Forrest.
Works such as Rimsky Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee excerpt from his opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Mendelssohn’s Wedding March, Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries from his opera Die Walküre and Gustav Mahler’s The Planets. They also added some less-classical but equally well know pieces from theatre and films. The effects were truly spectacular.
They wrapped up the performance, as is so often done on July 4th, with Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, accompanied by appropriate cannon noises and fireworks. The concert under the baton of Michael Krajewski and with the added special effects was just a delight. I couldn’t help thinking that this is one they could so easily reprise at the Verizon Amphitheater next summer. Everybody enjoyed it."
--Robert J. Heller, Atlanta
"...the concert, the visuals, the conductor, the music, the audience engagement, etc was awesome."
"We are particularly thrilled to hear about all the young people who enjoyed it. It is indeed the future of what we do."
"Everybody I talked with, including my children loved it totally..."
"I wanted to tell you how much we enjoyed Saturday evening's performance. The visual effects were amazing. Excellent job!!"
"Thank you so much for including my son's photo in the screen show accompanying Saturday night's performance. My two grandsons, my husband, and I were so proud!"
"All of the Graphics were excellent and time quite precisely to the music. Kudos to the video producer."
"Now it is my turn to echo the kudos!! The concert was a terrific success on all counts and could not have been a more perfect conclusion to the Philadelphia Orchestra's time at the Mann this season. Thank you for a wonderful evening that was just perfect in every way."
"Fantasia for the 21st Century"
"...truly spectacular!"
-- AUDIENCE SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS