PAPA 2025-2026 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.

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

Orchestra Start-of-Year PICNIC
12-2pm, Sunday. Sept. 21, 2025
”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.

“Brahms First Symphony” concert
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 Read Thomas: Of Paradise and Light (5')
str (no basses)
Vaughan Williams: Suite for Viola and Small Orchestra (23') [soloist: Jenny Douglass, 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
7:30pm Sat. Nov. 8, 2025; First Lutheran Church (600 Homer Ave., Palo Alto)
dress rehearsal: Fri. Nov. 7, 2025

“Stravinsky Pulcinella” concert
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: Pulcinella Suite (22')
    2.2.0.2 - 2.1.1.0 - str

“Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony, Pathetique” concert
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: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (10')
    3.2+1.2.2 - 4.0.0.0 - timp+1 - 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+2 - str

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

“Dvorak Cello Concerto” concert
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 from Peter Grimes (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: Theme “Music in Motion”: 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

Dvořák: Slavonic Dance no. 1 (4’)
    2.2.2.2 - 4.2.3.0 - timp+3 - str
Reena Esmail: Ram Tori Maya (6')
    2[1.2/pic].2.2.2 - 4.2.3.1 - timp+2, hp, str
Holst: Mars from “The Planets” (7')
    3.2.2.2 - 4.3.2.1 - timp+3 - str
Bartok: Romanian Folk Dances (6')
    2[1.2/pic].0.2.2 - 2.0.0.0 - str
Huang: Saibei Dance No. 2 (4')
    3[1.2.pic].2.2.2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+3 - str
Gwyneth Walker: Raise the Roof (4')
    0.0.0.0 - 1.2.0.1
Beethoven: Symphony No 7, 2nd mvmt, excerpt (3')
    2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp - str
Actor: Circus Symphonicus (Symphony No. 2, 3rd mvmt) (6')
    3[1.2.pic].3[1.2.Eh].3[1.2.bcl].3[1.2.cbn] - 4.3.3.1 - timp+3 - str
Williams: Imperial March from Star Wars (3')
    3[1.2.3/pic].2[1.2/Eh].3[1.2.bcl].2 - 4.3.3.1 - timp+3 -hp - pf/cel - str

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