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November 18, 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.
To learn more about ACSO, visit the website. 
 
How Do Minimum Wage Increases Impact YOUR Nonprofit?
 

The issue of whether to raise the minimum wage is currently a hot issue across California with voters in both Oakland and San Francisco approving an increase, and hearings taking place in Los Angeles for a proposed increase. Arguments from businesses and the government are often heard, but what about nonprofits? 


It is CalNonprofits' job to ensure that policy makers and the public at large know the perspective of nonprofits on issues that impact us and the communities we serve. 

 

Please take a few moments to fill out this survey to allow CalNonprofits to tell a more accurate and complete story about minimum wage and how increases are impacting nonprofits.

 
Give the Gift of the Arts this Holiday Season
 

There's a new, easy, and tax-deductible way to support arts education and arts programs this holiday season. The California Arts Council has rolled out its Arts Plate voucher program that allows the California Arts Plate to be given as a gift. Recipients can use the voucher to fully cover their purchase of the Arts Plate, which will directly support California arts education and local arts programs. To learn more and purchase vouchers, visit www.artsplate.org.
 

 
Make the Most of Your "Thank You" Page

Nonprofit thank you pages are important to donors, members, foundations and when leveraged correctly, they are an important way to get website visitors to connect to your organization. This article will give you some great ways to leverage your nonprofits thank you page in order to yield results.  

 

Craig Watson's Journey to The Middle Kingdom

 


 


A delegation of California Arts leaders led by California Arts Council director Craig Watson, recently embarked on a trip to China for an arts and culture mission. Read more about their journey in the first of a series of blog posts.

 
CDP Data Profile Filters

The Cultural Data Project (CDP) has introduced Data Profile Filters in order to streamline the data entry experience and allow many organizations to answer fewer questions. In order to activate these filters your organization will be required to answer a few questions and a customized data profile will be displayed. For more information on these filters, watch a short video or  contact the Cultural Data Project.

The CDP is also offering a free webinar on Thursday, December 11, at 11 a.m. PT to help users to understand the new platform that the CDP is envisioning. Sign up here.
 
Music Notes
 
Congratulations to the California Symphony! Its month-long matching challenge raised more than $100,000 before the match and one quarter of the donors were brand new. These contributions will be matched for a total exceeding $200,000 in contributed revenue towards the organization's annual fund.
 
On November 7, CBS Los Angeles television station KCAL9 broadcast a feature in which newscaster Josh Rubenstein interviewed Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra executive director and recent ACSO Board member Rachel Fine. The six-minute segment also includes performance footage of the orchestra and can be viewed here.
Susan Hori, Arts Orange County Board Member, and Eliza Rubenstein, OCWC Artistic Director

Orange County Women's Chorus (OCWC) received the award for 2014 Outstanding Arts Organization at the 15th Annual Arts Awards sponsored by Arts Orange County. Artistic Director Eliza Rubenstein accepted the award on behalf of OCWC on October 22. Congratulations!

  

ACSO Board member Chris Rountree's ensemble wild Up is making headlines for becoming an innovative approach to new music. In this recent article  n the Santa Barbara Independent, Chris is interviewed about wild Up and Pulp, a new program presented last weekend at Hahn Hall in Santa Barbara.  Read more. 

 
ACSO Up and Down the Scale
 


David George has been appointed operations/personnel manager for Festival Mozaic. Dave most recently held the position of assistant personnel manager at the Baltimore Symphony and was on the staff of the National Orchestra Institute while earning his Master's at the University of Maryland. A bassist, Dave has performed with the Baltimore and National symphonies, the Chautauqua, Pacific, Tanglewood, and Staunton music festivals, and the Grammy-nominated Inscape Chamber Orchestra.  In 2009, he was selected as principal bass for the inaugural YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall.  

 

Theodor Kuchar, music director of the Fresno Philharmonic for 14 years, will step down after the 2015-16 concert season. In addition to his position with the Fresno Philharmonic, Kuchar is music director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra, artistic director of the Nevada Chamber Music Festival, artistic director of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Venezuela and principal conductor of the Slovak Sinfonietta.  

 

  
Ojai Music Festival has announced that Thomas W. Morris will be extending his contract as artistic director through its 75th Anniversary season (July 2021). Tom has been artistic director of the Festival since 2004.    

 

  

  


Add a descriptionDana Newman has been named president of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Photo Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/Contour by Getty Images


 

2013 ACSO Conference speaker  Peter Sellars received the 2015 Musical America Award for Artist of the Year. Sellars is a popular theater director who has staged countless productions including John Adams' opera Nixon in China for the New York Metropolitan Opera in 2011.


 


 


 


 


 

Lora Unger has been appointed CEO of Pasadena Symphony and POPS. Unger, who has been the organization's general manager and most recently chief operating officer since 2009, succeeds Paul Jan Zdunek, who has accepted the position of chief capital development officer with Singpoli Capital Corporation in Pasadena. Unger, previously worked with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, as well as the Cincinnati, Modesto, and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras in public relations, marketing and artistic operations. She was a League of American Orchestras' Orchestra Management Fellow with residencies at the Aspen Music Festival, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and San Francisco Symphony.

 
ACSO "Out and About"
Debbie Chinn, executive director of Carmel Bach Festival becomes head of ACSO
Pictures taken at the Eureka Symphony concert on October 10, 2014.
Jane Hill welcoming ACSO to post-concert reception
Concertmaster Terrie Baune, Carol Jacobson, music director, guest artist Bill Kalinkos, clarinet