Schedule

BCSO Celebrates Diamond Jubilee!
2024/2025 Season is 75th Year of Free Classical Concerts!

2024/2025 Season Programming & Dates
Dr. Geoffrey Pope, Conductor & Music Director
(Musicians – Reh. Dates at Bottom)

@ El Camino College’s Marsee Hall in Torrance, CA 
FRIDAY EVENINGS: 7:15pm Pre-concert Lecture; 8pm Downbeat

Mark Your Calendars!  

October 18, 2024
“A Fall Fantasy”
Mayer: Faust Overture
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, op. 85
Sarah Koo, cello soloist
Brahms: Symphony No, 2 in D major, op. 73

January 24, 2025
“From the Conservatoire to the Opera House”
Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino
Saint-Saens: Rondo Capriccioso
Philip Vaiman, violin soloist
Beloved Operatic Arias & Scenes from Mozart, Puccini, and Johann Strauss, Jr.

MARCH 1, 2025 – 75TH DIAMOND JUBILEE GALA

March 21, 2025
“A ‘Joyous’ Celebration Befitting BCSO’s 75th Diamond Jubilee Season”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125

May 16, 2025
“Artists of the Future” MTAC Competition Winners
World Premiere!
MTAC Competition “Artists of the Future” Winners TBA
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, op. 46 (selections)

FOR BCSO MUSICIANS – Rehearsal Schedule

Redondo Union High School – Band Room  – All Wednesday Evenings 7:30pm!!!

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Rehearsal  1 ~  September 11, 2024
Rehearsal  2 ~  September 18, 2024
Rehearsal  3 ~  September 25, 2024 
Rehearsal  4 ~  October  2, 2024
Rehearsal  5 ~  October  9, 2024

Concert Week 

  El Camino College – Marsee Auditorium

Dress Rehearsal   W. October 16th / Th.   October 17th –7:30pm  —  ON Stage 

  Concert     Friday  ~  October 18th (  8pm Performance)

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         Redondo Union H. S. Band Room – Wednesdays 7:30pm

Rehearsal 1  ~  December 4, 2024

Rehearsal 2  ~  December 11, 2024

Rehearsal 3  ~  December 18, 2024

Rehearsal 4  ~   January  8, 2025

Rehearsal 5  ~   January 15, 2025

       EL Camino College ~ Marsee Auditorium 

Dress Rehearsal  W. January 22nd / Th. January 23rd  – 7:30pm  On Stage

  Concert :    Friday    January  24th, 2024   – 8:00pm

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          Redondo Union H. S.  Band Room  Wednesdays 7:30pm

Rehearsal 1  ~  Feb.12, 2025

Rehearsal 2  ~  Feb. 19, 2025

Rehearsal 3  ~  Feb. 26, 2025

Rehearsal 4  ~  March 5, 2025

Rehearsal 5  ~  March 12, 2025

         El Camino College ~ Marsee Auditorium 

Dress Rehearsal:  W. March 19th / Th. March 20th  7:30pm

   Concert Date     Friday   March 21st, 2025 ~  8:00pm

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       Redondo Union H.S.  Band Room   Wednesdays 7:30pm

Rehearsal 1 ~ April  9,  2025

Rehearsal 2 ~ April 16, 2025

Rehearsal 3 ~ April 23, 2025

Rehearsal 4 ~ April 30, 2025

Rehearsal 5 ~  May  7,  2025

Rehearsal 6 ~ May  14, 2025  TBD

      El Camino College ~ Marsee Auditorium

Dress Rehearsal:  Thurs.  May 15th  2025 –  7:30pm ~ On Stage 

   Concert Date     Friday  May 16th, 2025 ~   8:00pm