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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Good News!
The Sacramento Youth Symphony's music director Michael Neumann's vision of putting together an orchestra of 1,000 musicians came together on October 12 at Memorial Auditorium with a program of Sousa, Dvorak, Strauss, Beethoven and other composers. The performance was recorded for broadcast by Access Sacramento, and will be available at a later date.
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ArtPlace America: Creative Placemaking Grant Opportunity
ArtPlace America is currently accepting Letters of Inquiry for the 2015 round of its National Grants Program. This year ArtPlace intends to support approximately 40 projects with roughly $10 million. These grants target creative placemaking projects, in which art and culture help strengthen the social, physical, and economic fabric of communities.
On November 3, the NEA (register here) with support from ArtPlace America will host a webinar on the role of the performing arts in transforming places, people's relationships with their communities, and community development processes.ArtPlace executive director Jamie Bennett spoke about the amazing projects his organization is funding at our recent Annual Conference.
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What Do Board Members Need to Understand About Overhead?
Calculating overhead rates and managing overhead expense are important staff roles. Board members are not required to know how staff do accounting work, but we do need to bring an informed perspective to our oversight.Amid the crosstalk about nonprofit overhead, board members and staff do need to understand what the conversation is really about, and how to interpret "what is overhead" for our own organizations.The Blue Avocado article outlines eight key ideas to know about overhead.
Jan Masaoka, editor, Blue Avocado
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National Arts & Humanities Month
...the greatest month of the year-is a coast-to-coast collective recognition of the importance of culture in America. It is designed to encourage all Americans to explore new facets of the arts and humanities in their lives and to nurture a lifelong habit of active participation in the arts.  To celebrate this October, visit
our
National Arts & Humanities Month (NAHM) website
to find all of the information you need to host, promote, or participate in this month's festivities. From getting press coverage in your community and obtaining a mayoral proclamation to tips for
planning and promoting your event, there are many ways you can take part in National Arts & Humanities Month!
Here are a few ideas they came up with:
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California Arts Council Names New Directors
Kathleen Gallegos, Los Angeles, has been director of Avenue 50 Studios Inc since 2000 and an independent artist since 1992.
Jamie Galli, San Francisco, has been digital marketing manager at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art since 2014.
Nashormeh Lindo, Oakland, has been an independent arts educator, museum consultant and curator since 1996 and an independent artist since 1976. She was an instructor of African American art history at the City College of San Francisco from 2008 to 2013.
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Music Notes
ACSO is pleased to announce three appointments to its Board of Directors: Sonia Marie De Leon de Vega, music director of the Santa Cecelia Orchestra in Los Angeles; Cristine Kelly, executive director of Music in the Mountains; and Nicola Reilly, director of marketing and public relations for the Carmel Bach Festival.
A major donor of the California Symphony has generously issued a one month matching challenge through November 10 up to $200,000!
Oakland East Bay Symphony announced that its November 7th concert featuring the West Coast premiere of Chris Brubeck and Guillaume Saint-James's Brothers in Arts and Tchaikovsky's Fifth symphony will be simulcast on The Great Wall of Oakland thanks to the generosity of an anonymous donor. The concert, hosted by KDFC's Dianne Nicolini, opens the Symphony's 2014-2015 season at the Paramount Theatre, two blocks from The Great Wall of Oakland, which is located at 400 West Grand Avenue, near the corner of Broadway and West Grand.The simulcast will be free of charge and will begin shortly before the 8 p.m. concert with some pre-concert activities. Oakland East Bay Symphony Music Director and Oakland Youth Orchestra Artistic Director Michael Morgan has announced the appointment of conductor, composer and educator Omid Zoufonoun as new Principal Conductor of the Oakland Youth Orchestra. Mr. Zoufonoun takes the podium after Maestro Morgan and Bryan Nies have shared conducting duties for the Youth Orchestra's 2013-2014 50th anniversary season.
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ACSO Up and Down the Scale
Ann Meier Baker has been named the new director of music and opera, National Endowment for the Arts, effective January 12, 2015. As head of the NEA's Music and Opera office, she will lead grantmaking in music and opera grants as well as the NEA Jazz Masters Fellowships, and represent the agency to the field. Currently, Baker serves as president and CEO of Chorus America, where she leads the national membership association of more than 2,000 professional, volunteer, symphonic and children/youth choruses. 
Aubrey Bergauer is the new executive director of the California Symphony and its fifth executive director in company history. Bergauer comes from Seattle, where she most recently served as senior director of community engagement at One Reel, the organization that produces the Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival.
 Daren Fuster has been appointed director of operations and artistic administration for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra where he will Fuster oversee artistic administration, production, general operations, as well as education and community programs. Brian Taylor Goldstein has been named to the list of 2014 New York Metro Super Lawyers in the field of Entertainment, Intelleuctual Property and Immigration.
The Long Beach Symphony Association's Board of Directors announced today they voted to renew executive director
Kelly Ruggirello's contract through the 2016-2017 season.
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ACSO Out and About
 Getting outfitted with Mendocino Music Festival outerwear.
 ACSO president Debbie Chinn and Kris Sinclair visit the Mendocino Music Festival's Barbara Faulkner and Barbara Barkovich.
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