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.

Fall Chamber Concert
8pm Sat. Nov. 9, 2024; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Nov. 8, 2024

Orch II concert (“Transcending Fate”)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Dec. 14, 2024; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: 7:30pm, Fri. Dec. 13, 2024
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 10/28 11/4, 11, 18  12/2, 9
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Yuko Uebayashi: Concerto pour Flûte et Orchestre (36') [soloist: Ráyo Furuta, flute]
    str
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, Op. 67 (31')
    2+1.2.2.2+1 - 2. 2.3.0 - timp - str

Orch III concert (“Forbidden Love”)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Feb. 22, 2025; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: Fri. Feb. 21, 2025
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 1/13, 20, 27  2/3, 10, 17
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Mozart: Overture to Marriage of Figaro (4')
    2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp - str
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22 in Eb, K. 482 (34') [soloist: Sandra Wright Shen, piano]
    1.0.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp - str
Delius: A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden (10')
    2.1+1.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - hp - str (rental Boosey)
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (20')
    2+1.2+1.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+2 - hp - str

Spring Chamber Concert
7:30pm Sat. Mar. 8, 2025; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Mar. 7, 2025

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

repertoire TBD

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. 15, 2024
”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. 7 2024; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Sept. 6, 2024

Orch I concert (“A Journey toward Redemption”)
concert: 7:30pm Sat. Oct. 19, 2024; Cubberley Theatre, 4120 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94306
dress rehearsal: 7:30pm, Fri. Oct. 18, 2024
Rehearsals at Immanuel Lutheran Church: 9/9, 16, 23, 30 10/7, 14
+ conducted by Music Director Lara Webber

Farrenc: Overture No. 1, Op. 23 (7')
2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp - str (rental: Presser)
Strauss: Four Last Songs (24') [soloist: Heidi Moss Erickson]
3d1+1.2+1.2+1[bcl].3d1 - 4.3.3.1 - tmp - hp - cel - str (rental Boosey)
Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite (30') (with soprano + backstage viola)
2d1+1.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+3 - hp - str