2024–2025 Season Overview
LVPAC gala featuring Katharine McPhee on September 7, 2024.
Pops on the Green concert September 28.
LVPAC holiday family concert on the afternoon of December 7.
Concert dates are December 7, 2024; Feb. 15, April 12, and May 31, 2025.
School outreach concerts to be arranged.

First gala rehearsal Tuesday August 27.
First pops rehearsal Tuesday September 10.
First regular-season rehearsal Tuesday October 8.
See the season schedule.
See the season preview flyer.

 
2024–2025 Season Instrumentation

Abbreviations: Pic = piccolo, Eh = English Horn, Bel = Bass clarinet, cabs = contrabassoon asx = alto sax, tmp = Timpani, hp = harp, pf = Piano, str = strings, perc = percussion, etc.

Gala
Saturday Sept. 7, time TBD
Katherine McPhee, music and instrumentation TBD (standard instrumentation expected)

POPS on the Green
Saturday Sept. 28, 3 p.m.
music and instrumentation TBD (standard instrumentation expected)

Festive Fairy Tales
Saturday Dec. 7, 2024, 8 p.m.
15′ Bizet L’Arlesienne Suite No. 1 2 2[1/Eh.2] 2 2 — 4 4[2tp, 2crt] 3 0 — opt asx — tmp+1 — hp[or pf] — str
16′ Barber: Die Natali 3[1.2.3/pic] 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.bcl] 2 — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+4 — hp — cel — str perc: bd, cym, td, tri, tamtam, glock, xyl, crot
7′ Ravel: Ma Mère l'Oye (Mother Goose), Prélude & Danse du rouet
18′ Ravel: Ma Mère L’Oye (Mother Goose Suite) 2222-2000 T+3, hp, cel Note: 2nd bassoon is a contrabassoon solo part>

Expressions of Youth
Saturday Feb. 15, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
10′ Brahms: Academic Festival Overture 3[1.2.pic] 2 2 3[1.2.cbn] — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+3 — str perc: bd, cym, tri
Concerto Winners TBD
20′ Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphonic Variations on an African Air (150th bday) 3[1.2.pic] 2[1/Eh.2] 2 2-4 2 3 1, tmp+2, hp,str perc: bd, bd/cym, cym, sd, tri
(Possible Encore if program concerto winners repertoire is short in duration)

Romantic Masterpieces
Saturday April 12, 20257:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Pitcairn, violin soloist
Opening work TBD
33′ Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto 2 2 2 2 — 4 2 0 0 — tmp — str
37′ Franck: Symphony in D 2 3[1.2.Eh] 3[1.2.bcl] 2 — 4 4[2tp, 2crt] 3 1 — tmp — hp — str

Celestial Sounds
May 31, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Heidi Moss Erickson, soprano soloist
2′ Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Opening
10′ Zare: NEOWISE 2222-4231 Timp +3
6′ Holst: Planets, Mars
10′ Holst: Planets, Venus
7′ Holst: Planets, Jupiter
The parts are cued to make performance possible with the following minimum instrumentation: 3[incl pic] 3[incl Eh] 3[incl bcl] 2 — 4 3 3 1 — 2tmp+3 — 2hp, cel — str.
5′ Debussy Clair de Lune 2 2 2 2 — 2 0 0 0 — hp — str
6′ Duparc: Aux étoiles (to the stars) 2222-2000-str. (publisher Salabert)
3′ Erickson, Kurt: “I Sang it to you and the Moon” from his Chicago Songs, 2222 / 221 / perc (3) / harp / piano-celesta / sop solo / strings, Heidi Moss Erickson
6′ Dvořák: Rusalka Song to the moon (standard instr. plus harp) Heidi Moss Erickson
15′ John Williams: Star Wars (Full concert JW signature series edition, LAS owns it) 3[1.2.3/pic] 2[1.2/Eh] 3[1.2.bcl] 2 — 4 3 3 1 — tmp+5 — hp — pf/cel — str perc: bd, cym, sus cym, tri, tamtam, glock, vib, 2sd

 
Special Reminders

The Livermore-Amador Symphony will always comply with current Alameda County Health mandates and recommendations plus any additonal rehearsal and performance venue health requirements.

Please inform orchestra manager Bryan Waugh and your section leader any time you are ill and must miss rehearsal. 

In light of the serious concerns regarding Coronavirus/COVID-19, we are especially conscious of the need to protect our community and understand if you must stay home due to illness or known exposure. Livermore Schools provided families with the following links to good guidelines to follow during this uncertain time.
California Public Health
Alameda County Health
CDC guidance on returning travelers

 
General Information and Maps

The music room at East Avenue Middle School is the usual rehearsal site, but there may be changes if, for example, school activities conflict with orchestra rehearsals.

The multi-purpose room at the east end of the Bothwell Arts Center, 2466 8th Street, is an alternate rehearsal site—bring a music stand. (Park on G, H, or 8th Streets.)

Dress rehearsals, concerts, and Tuesday rehearsals during concert week are at the Bankhead Theater of the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center.

Regular Tuesday evening rehearsals (7:15–9:45 p.m.) usually begin in late August, to prepare for a Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center gala in September. Rehearsals follow until early December for a pops concert, family concert, and formal concert. Rehearsals recommence in early January and continue for concerts in February and April until the final concert of the season in late May or early June, except there is no rehearsal in the week immediately following a concert.

There is a dress rehearsal on the Thursday evening prior to each major concert. The formal concerts are on Saturday evenings.

 
Bankhead Theater Maps

Bankhead Theater, 2400 First Street, Livermore (stage entrance is on Railroad Avenue; so is the parking garage)

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