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December 18,  2013
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Sent twice-monthly, Semiquavers is an e-newsletter designed to inform the classical music community about the Association of California Symphony Orchestras (ACSO), its member organizations and other important news in the field.
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As we reach the end of a very successful year at ACSO, we want to thank all of you who give so generously of your time to your orchestras and choruses to keep the music alive. Please don't ever stop.
 
Even as you write, send, and mail your own year-end appeals for your organizations, we also invite you to support the future success of ACSO's services and programs. No donation is too small and all gifts are greatly appreciated. Please consider a year-end, tax-deductible gift to ACSO to support our work on your behalf in 2014.
 
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(916) 484-0503 (fax)
Launching: ACSO Resume Posting Service

Are you new to the field of arts administration and looking to get your foot in the door? Or maybe you are an industry veteran who's looking for a new position? ACSO is pleased to offer a new resume posting service to its Individual members free-of-charge. Your resume will be posted on the ACSO website in the Members-Only section and will be visible to ACSO members statewide. Our members include the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the San Francisco Symphony, so this is your chance to be seen by some of the leading administrators in the business! Not an Individual Member? Join today to receive this service as well as the other great benefits ACSO membership has to offer. We are also offering Non-Individual Members the option of paying the nominal fee of $15/month to take advantage of this program.

 

To post your resume, attach it as a PDF to [email protected] and it will be posted within 2 business days. If you are not a member, you may submit payment via PayPal to [email protected] or call the office at (916) 484-6744 to pay over the phone. 

Value of the Arts...Quantified

A study by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis and the National Endowment for the Arts showed that 3.2%-- or $504 billion -- of current-dollar gross domestic product in 2011 was attributable to arts and culture. You can read the full report here.
Classical Grammy Nominees Announced

Congratulations to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for their nomination in the Best Orchestral Performance category! The rest of the 56th Annual Grammy Awards Nominees have also been announced, and the Classical listings can be found at this link
Getty Education and Community Investment Grant Awardees

The League of American Orchestras has selected 23 orchestras to receive Getty Education and Community Investment Grants for 2013-14. The grants fund new and established innovative community programs such as in-school and afterschool programs, lifelong learning opportunities, and health and wellness initiatives. ACSO is very proud to say that 5 of the winners are members: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music in the Mountains, Pacific Symphony, San Diego Youth Symphony, and San Francisco Symphony. You can read detailed descriptions of their projects at this link.

NEA Art Works Grant Recipients
 
The National Endowment for the Arts first round of FY14 Art Works grants include 46 awards totaling $1,450,000 directly to orchestras, as well as numerous grants supporting related efforts. Congratulations to the following ACSO members on their awards! 
 
ACSO - a $25,000 grant to support our professional and leadership development programs and our 46th Annual Conference.
 
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra - a $22,500 grant to support Rising Voices, premieres, and radio broadcasts of new works with related educational activities. The featured composers will be Anna Clyne and Hannah Lash.
 
Los Angeles Philharmonic - a $90,000 grant to support Minimalist Jukebox, a festival curated by John Adams which features performances, family concerts, educational activities, and the world premiere of Terry Riley's Organ Concerto.
 
Oakland East Bay Symphony - a $15,000 grant to support the commissioning of a new work about the Black Panthers by composer Clark Suprynowicz and librettist Tanya Barfield.
 
Oakland Youth Orchestra - a $12,500 grant to enable Mr. Stookey, a former youth orchestra member, to attend rehearsals with the group before the piece's premiere during the 50th anniversary season.
 

Pacific Symphony - a $40,000 grant to support the American Composers Festival "From Score to Screen." Programming will be directed by music director Carl St.Clair and curated by Richard Guerin, and will highlight orchestral works by award-winning Hollywood film score composers such as Bernard Herrmann and Hans Zimmer.

 

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - a $10,000 grant to support performances of Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans. The PBO will be joined by guest soloists and the Philharmonia Baroque Chorale.

 

San Francisco Symphony - a $75,000 grant to support Beethoven and Bates, a performance project juxtaposing works by American composer Mason Bates with works by Beethoven. 

 

Southwest Chamber Music Society - a $20,000 grant to support the annual Los Angeles International New Music Festival. 

Up & Down The Scale

 

 

The National Endowment for the Arts announces that music and opera director Wayne S. Brown will depart the NEA to become the president and chief executive officer of the Michigan Opera Theatre (MOT) based in Detroit, Michigan. Mr. Brown served 16 years with the NEA, managing thousands of music and opera grants. He will be with the NEA through mid-January 2014, joining MOT on January 16.

 

Recent ACSO Annual Conference interns Dana Carey
and Christine Witmer have been hired by the Carmel Bach Festival and Pasadena Symphony and POPS, respectively. Ms. Carey is the new development and marketing coordinator in Carmel, and Ms. Witmer is the director of education and community engagement in Pasadena.  

 

Edward "Ward" Gill, chief executive officer of the San Diego Symphony, announced that he will be leaving his position in
September 2014. During his decade-long tenure, Mr. Gill doubled the Symphony's budget to $21 million while also organizing its first performance in Carnegie Hall and its first international tour to China. He says he currently has no plans to take a new position elsewhere.

 

 


The San Francisco Symphony has promoted two longtime Symphony staff to its senior leadership team, appointing Kathleen Nicely to director of community and external relations and Oliver Theil to director of communications. Ms Nicely has been with the Symphony since 2008, and Mr. Theil, an ACSO Board Member, has worked with them for more than 20 years.

 

Deborah Rutter, current president of the Chicago Symphony and former president of ACSO, has been named the new president of the Kennedy Center beginning in the fall. Ms. Rutter has previously held executive positions with the Seattle Symphony (1992 - 2003) and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (1986 - 1992). She will be the first female president in the forty-three-year history of the Kennedy Center.

 

ACSO has brought in Garrett Shatzer to be the new executive assistant. Garrett recently finished a Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory at UC Davis and will remain an active composer -- in March he flies to Rome to conduct the world premiere of his latest choral work at St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.

 

Music Notes  

The Santa Barbara Symphony and the American Federation of Musicians-Local 308 announced that a new three-year collective bargaining agreement has been ratified, taking them through the 2015-16 season. The agreement addresses wage and travel increases while also improving the auditioning and hiring processes.
Errata 

In our last edition we mistakingly wrote that the San Diego Youth Symphony went on a tour through China. This was, in fact, the San Diego Symphony.