PAPA 2024-2025 Orchestra Season Schedule

Regular and dress rehearsals take place at 7:30pm — rehearsal venue for this year remains

Immanuel Lutheran Church
1715 Grant Road
Los Alto, CA 94024 (click HERE for Google-map, HERE for zoom-in map)

Any sectional rehearsals will be announced. Dress rehearsals will be in the performance venue unless otherwise noted.

Orch IV concert (“Home and Heart”)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Apr. 5. 2025; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: Thursday, Apr. 3, 2025
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 2/24 3/3, 10, 17, 24, 31
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Copland: Our Town (10')
3.2+1.3d1[bcl].2 - 3.3.2.1 - 1perc - str (rental: Boosey)
Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air (20')
2+1.2d1.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+2 - hp - str (rental: Fleisher)
Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, Op. 95 (“From the New World”) (40')
2d1.2d1.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+1 - str

Family Concert: Concerto Movement Competition Winners
concert: 3pm Sun. May 18. 2025; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: Friday, May 16, 2025
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 4/14, 21, 28 5/5, 12
+ conducted by Assistant Director Lee Actor

Villa-Lobos: Fantasia for Saxophone (1st mvmt) (5')
0.0.0.0 - 3.0.0.0 - str
Bloch: Schelomo (22')
3d1.2+1.2+1.2+1 - 4.3.2.1 - timp+3 - 2hp - cel – str
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 (1st mvmt) (9')
2d1.2d1.2+1.2 - 4.2.1.0 - timp+1 - hp - cel - str
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19 (1st mvmt) (10')
2d1.2.2.2 - 3.1.0.0 - timp - hp - str
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 (1st mvmt) (11')
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+1 – str
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F# minor, Op. 1 (1st mvmt) (14')
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp – str

4/14 (orchestra only)
7:30 Bloch
8:00 Korngold
8:25 Prokofiev PC#2
8:45 break
9:00 Rachmaninoff
9:25 Prokofiev VC#1
9:45 Villa-Lobos

4/21 ----
7:30 Bloch
8:15 Rachmaninoff
8:55 break
9:10 Prokofiev VC#1
9:40 Villa-Lobos

4/28 ----
7:30 Bloch
8:10 Korngold
8:40 break
8:55 Prokofiev PC#2
9:25 Rachmaninoff

5/5 ----
7:30 Korngold
8:00 Prokofiev PC#2
8:30 Rachmaninoff
9:00 break
9:15 Prokofiev VC#1
9:45 Villa-Lobos

5/12 ----
7:30 Bloch
8:05 Korngold
8:35 Prokofiev PC#2
9:00 break
9:15 Prokofiev VC#1
9:45 Villa-Lobos

5/16 (dress) ----
7:30 Villa-Lobos
7:45 Bloch
8:15 Korngold
8:40 Prokofiev VC#1
9:00 break
9:15 Prokofiev PC#2
9:35 Rachmaninoff

Summer Chamber Concert
7:30pm Sat. June 21, 2025; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. June 20, 2025

Orchestra Start-of-Year PICNIC
12-2pm, Sunday. Sept. ??, 2024
probably ”Sycamore” picnic area, Blackberry Farm, Cupertino (see maps below)
We’ll bring (non-alcoholic) beverages, hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers and trimmings/toppings.
Musicians, Board Members and their family-members are welcome — please feel free to bring a side dish or dessert to share.
(While beer & wine are technically allowed by the venue, we would ask you to stick to non-alcoholic beverages.)
Google-map to the front entrance HERE.
Facility map showing the location of the “Sycamore” picnic area HERE.

Baroque Concert
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Sept. 13, 2025; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Sept. 12, 2025

Orch I concert (name TBD)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Oct. 18, 2025; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: 7:30pm, Fri. Oct. 17, 2025
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 9/8, 15, 22, 29 10/6, 13
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Augusta Reed Thomas: Of Paradise and Light (5')
str (no basses)
Vaughan Williams: Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (23') [soloist: Jenny Douglas, viola]
2.1.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - tmp+1 - hp - cel - str
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 (44')
2.2.2.2+1 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - str

Fall Chamber Concert
8pm Sat. Nov. 8, 2025; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Nov. 7, 2025

Orch II concert (name TBD)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Dec. 13, 2025; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: 7:30pm, Fri. Dec. 12, 2025
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 10/27 11/3, 10, 17 12/1, 8
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Reena Esmail: Avartan (13')
1.1.1.1 - 1.1.1.1 - perc - pn - str
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (28') [soloist: Geoffrey Burr, clarinet]
2.0.0.2 - 2.0.0.0 - str
Stravinsky: Pucinella Suite (22')
2.2.0.2 - 2.1.1.0 - str

Orch III concert (name TBD)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Feb. 21, 2026; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: Fri. Feb. 20, 2026
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 1/12, 19, 26 2/2, 9, 16
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Debussy: Prelude a l’Après Midi D’une Faun (10')
3.2+1.2.2 - 4.0.0.0 - timp+2 - 2 hp - str
Debussy: Nuages, Fêtes, from Nocturnes (13')
3d1.2+1.2.3 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+2 - 2 hp - str
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 (46')
3d1.2.2d1.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+3 - str

Spring Chamber Concert
7:30pm Sat. Mar. 14, 2026; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Mar. 13, 2026

Orch IV concert (name TBD)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Apr. 11. 2026; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: Thursday, Apr. 9, 2026
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 3/2, 9, 16, 23, 30 4/6
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Sibelius: Karelia Overture (9')
2+1.2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+3 - str
Britten: Four Sea Interludes (17')
2d2.2.2d1.2+1 - 4.3d1.3.1 - timp+? - hp - str
Dvořák: Cello Concerto (40') [soloist: Evan Kahn, cello]
2d1.2.2.2 - 3.2.3.1 - timp+1 - str

Family Concert: Concerto Movement Competition Winners
concert: 3pm Sun. May 17. 2026; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: Friday, May 15, 2026
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 4/13, 20, 27 5/4, 11
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Repertoire TBD

Summer Chamber Concert
7:30pm Sat. June 13, 2026; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. June 12, 2026