In Friday’s (8/17) Daily Pilot (Costa Mesa, California), Bradley Zint writes, “Eileen Jeanette’s workday began at 7 in the morning and by 6 p.m., it wasn’t over yet. On Sunday, the goal for her was clear: to make the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre suitable for a Pacific Symphony performance. Getting the venue on Irvine Center Drive ready for its classical summertime resident is no easy task for the team of about 30 who accomplishes it. Jeanette would know. She’s done it 33 times. … This included building the white shell within and white ‘clouds’ above the black stage, setting up the mics for the instruments and readying other sound, video and lighting equipment. … Jeffery Sells sat in a small trailer behind the stage. In front of him was his work space: a technological sea teeming with buttons and topped off with a few monitors. As the symphony’s director of multimedia operations, his job Sunday was to take care of what the audience sees on the screens around the amphitheater. … ‘It’s really all about amplifying the energy that the orchestra is already putting out there,’ Sells said. … The two pieces on the night’s program—Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and the Fifth Piano Concerto with soloist Gabriela Martinez—are certainly no mystery to [Pacific Symphony Music Director Carl St.Clair] or his veteran musicians. …Yet St.Clair remarked that the endeavor to better understand the music is a relentless one.”
Posted August 17, 2012
