2024 – 2025

2024-2025 Season

 

Titan
Saturday, October 5, 2024, 7:00 pm
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

 

Legends and Legacies
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 7:00 pm
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
Los Angeles Premiere
Gloria Cheng, piano
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor

 

An Eclectic Night
Saturday, March 8, 2024, 7:00 pm
John Adams Middle School Performing Arts Center

Pola Benke, guest conductor
Cathy Biagini, cello

Felix Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26
Dmitry Kabalevsky: Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 49
Cathy Biagini, cello
Josef Strauss arr. Michael Rott: Sphärenklänge Waltz, Op. 235
Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 94, Surprise

 

Galactic Horizons
Saturday, May 10, 2024, 7:00 pm
Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School

Danko Druško, guest conductor

Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra (Opening Fanfare)
Gustav Holst: The Planets

I. Mars, the Bringer of War
II. Venus, the Bringer of Peace
VI. Uranus, the Magician
IV. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity

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
John Williams Star Wars Suite for Orchestra