January 27, 2014

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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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Claudio Abbado (1933 - 2014)

Influential Italian conductor Claudio Abbado passed away January 20th at his home in Bologna. Over his long career Abbado held positions at the Teatro alla Scalla in Milan, Vienna State Opera, London Philharmonic, and Berlin Philharmonic. The Berlin Philharmonic has made many videos of his concerts available for free on their website in his honor. You can view them here.

California Arts Council Releases 2012-13 Annual Report

The Council provided $3,253,757 via 336 grants throughout the year. The full report can be found here.

Foundations Combine to Commission Six New Works by California Composers

The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation have given six $50,000 grants to Bay Area music organizations to commission new works by six California composers. The "funds are directed toward innovative California composers who represent a wide spectrum of cultural and aesthetic perspectives."

Complete information about the awardees and their proposed projects can be found here.

Up & Down the Scale

Ryan Murray has been appointed associate conductor for the Modesto Symphony Orchestra and music director for the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra. Murray also holds the artistic director position for the Napa Valley Youth Symphony and is the resident conductor for Music in the Mountains.

Next season marks the 25th anniversary of Carl St.Clair joining the Pacific Symphony. In celebration the Symphony will feature such luminary soloists as Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, and Dawn Upshaw, as well as a concert devoted to the music of Leonard Bernstein, St.Clair's mentor.

Music Notes

The Colburn School will be creating their own Recovering Voices program, a musical endeavor focusing on rediscovering the works of composers whose careers, and sometimes lives, were lost during the Holocaust. The program was initially founded by conductor James Conlon at the Los Angeles Opera in 2006, and he will be continuing this work at Colburn. Both Colburn's Recovering Voices program and the original were made possible by grants totaling $4.3 million from philanthropist Marilyn Ziering.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic performed a special concert in celebration of Nevada's 150th anniversary of statehood on January 18th. The concert was recorded and will air on Vegas PBS in April and Reno's KNPB later this year.

Music in the Mountains has been selected by the League of American Orchestras to receive a 2013-14 Getty Education and Community Investment Grant in support of their Prelude for Yuba Salmon Project. MIM's Young Composers Project will team with educators at Sierra Streams Institute and be taken through a curriculum focused on the plight of the salmon and their importance to the health of the region's watersheds. The composers will then create music reflecting upon their experiences.

The Ojai Music Festival has announced its music directors for the next three seasons. They are: Steven Schick, 2015; Peter Sellars, 2016; and Esa-Pekka Salonen, 2017.

The Peninsula Symphony North was privileged to perform at the grand opening of the new Terminal 3 at San Francisco International Airport for United Airlines. They were joined by pianist Thomas Hansen for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, known by many to be the theme song for United.

The Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California has hired two young composers to join their composition faculty this fall. Ted Hearne and Andrew Norman, both in their early 30s, rose to prominence via the combination of traditional schooling and the untraditional yet trendy model of do-it-yourself career building.

Out & About

Members of ACSO's Board got together in Northern California earlier this month. From left: Kelly Ruggirello, Sean Sutton, Dean McVay, Donna Williams, Kris Sinclair, and Dwyne Willis.

ACSO Resume Posting Service

Looking for a job in arts administration and would like to get the proverbial foot in the door? ACSO is now offering a resume posting service to its Individual members free-of-charge. Non-members can take advantage of this service for only $15/month. Resumes will be posted on the ACSO website in the Members-Only section and will be visible to ACSO members statewide.

Please attach your resume as a PDF to office@acso.org. If you are not a member, you may submit payment via PayPal to office@acso.org or call the office at (916) 484-6744 to pay via credit card.