2024 – 2025

Saturday, October 5, 2024,  7:00 pm
Titan
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center
Maxim Eshkenazy, guest conductor
Maxim Eshkenazy:  Concert Suite from The Hunt for Salamander
Gustav Mahler:  Symphony No. 1 in D major, Titan  

Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:00 pm
Legends and Legacies
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center
Geoffrey Pope, guest conductor
Gloria Cheng, piano
Claude Debussy:  Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
(Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)
John Williams:  Prelude and Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra
Gloria Cheng, piano
Johannes Brahms:  Symphony No. 1 in C minor

Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7:00 pm
An Eclectic Night
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center
Pola Benke, guest conductor
Cathy Biagini, cello
Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
Dmitry Kabalevsky:  Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 49
Cathy Biagini, cello
Josef Strauss:           Sphärenklänge Waltz, Op. 235
arr. Michael Rott
Joseph Haydn:         Symphony No. 94, Surprise

Saturday, May 10, 7:00 pm
Galactic Horizons
Barnum Hall
Dr. Danko Druško, guest conductor
Richard Strauss:  Also sprach Zarathustra (Opening Fanfare)
Gustav Holst:  The Planets (abridged version)
John Williams:  Star Wars Suite for Orchestra
Joe Hisaishi:    My Neighbor Totoro (Theme)
Joe Hisaishi:    Merry-Go-Round of Life
from Howl’s Moving Castle
Joe Hisaishi:    One Summer’s Day from Spirited Away