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I went last night (my boss had a friend's box seats but wasn't feeling well so I ended up with the tickets) and really enjoyed it. I hadn't read anything about it beforehand, and since I tend to think of DreamWorks Animation as the musical province of Mr. Zimmer and his many collaborators (Powell, Gregson-Williams, Balfe, Jackman, other Gregson-Williams), it was a very pleasant surprise to see those people joined by the likes of Alan Silvestri and Alexandre Desplat conducting their own works (Croods and Rise of the Guardians, respectively).
I arrived later than I'd planned but earlier than my boxmates, so I ended up waiting by myself for about 25 minutes; in the box next to ours was a youngish, well-dressed man with a British accent (I assumed he was somebody's agent), who was similarly alone for a long time.
When they played the Puss 'n' Boots cue and they turned the spotlight on Henry Jackman in the audience, I was pleasantly shocked to see that he was the Brit in the box next to me (perhaps even more surprising was that my boss's friend's box was closer to the stage than Elfman's, Katzenberg's or Stephen Schwartz's.)
The only drawback to the concert, and I'm sure this is true of most film music concerts these day, is that the clips feature so much dialogue and sound effects. I suspect it's all too rare to see a clip shown with live-music-only at these events.
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The worst one for me like that was a United Artists concert at the Bowl where they played score to picture for the pre-credits sequence of Tomorrow Never Dies (pretty low on the long list of Bond cues I'd have chosen), and the sound effects were constantly doing battle with the music, and usually winning.
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BTW the inimitable Jon Burlingame did the program notes.
AND John Powell and Hans Zimmer did not conduct, they performed in the orchestra!
You're right about Powell and Zimmer. Jon was sitting near me, and his box was also closer to the stage than Elfman's, Katzenberg's or Schwartz's.
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One of the best things about the box we lucked into getting was that it was close but off to the side, so I could look directly at the orchestra and conductor, and much more easily ignore the screens, which tend to naturally draw the eye.
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