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Effective February 29, 2016 IRS announces change in Form 990-N submission website. Read more.
Important California Legislation
Check off the Arts on your Tax Return
If you haven't yet filed your California state tax return and wish to support arts education programs, consider making a tax deductible contribution to the "Keep Arts in Schools Fund." Read more.
DataArts New Reporting Platform to Launch Soon
DataArts (formerly the Cultural Data Project) is preparing to launch its new reporting platform. Current profiles in progress should be completed and submitted it by mid-March to ensure that information is migrated correctly to the new system. Contact DataArts' support center by email or call 877-707-DATA with any questions.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has released a new report about the future of arts leadership. Read it here.
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Join the "Ask an Expert" Webinar - April 13, 2016
"Employers: Be Careful With Exempt and Non-Exempt Designations"
Presenter: Deborah Weiser attorney-at-law, Paul Hastings, LLP
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 | 11 AM - 12 PM PDT
ACSO Members: Free | Non-Members: $35
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Gerald Gibbs has been named executive director of the Reno Chamber Orchestra. He succeeds Scott Faulkner, who stepped down from the post last
May. Gibbs served as managing director of the Key City Theatre in British Columbia, director of artistic planning for the Akron Symphony Orchestra in Ohio, and as executive director of the Empress Theatre in Alberta, Canada where he established the Fort Macleod International Festival.
Thomas O'Connor is the new executive director of the Orchestra Santa Monica. O'Connor has held many orchestra executive director positions.
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has announced that principal oboe Allan Vogel will retire at the end of this
season. Appointed to the orchestra in 1972, and named to the principal oboe post in 1974, Vogel has soloed with LACO fourteen times during his 44-year tenure. Vogel has been guest principal oboe with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for concerts in the major European capitals, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and Boston Symphony Hall. He has also performed with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Berlin and Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestras.
Jeff vom Saal will resign his position as executive director of
the Marin Symphony Association at the end of April 2016.
Vom Saal had been with the Marin Symphony since 2012. He will take the position of executive director of the Spokane Symphony.
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New Releases By Our Members
The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra will release the first-ever recording of Alessandro Scarlatti's La Gloria di Primavera. The 2-disc set will be available on CD and direct download on Amazon, iTunes, and other music retailers on April 8, 2016. A Blu-Ray special edition will follow later in the Spring. It features the live recording of the U.S. Premiere of the newly discovered serenata performed at First Congregational Church in Berkeley in October 2015. Music director Nicholas McGegan led the orchestra with an acclaimed cast of soloists including Diana Moore, Suzana Ograjensek, Clint van der Linde, Nicholas Phan and Douglas Williams with the Philharmonia Chorale directed by Bruce Lamott.
Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are releasing a new album of composer Mason Bates' large-scale works for orchestra and electronica. Hear the first-ever recordings of his colossal Liquid Interface and the SFS-commissioned The B-Sides alongside Bates' supercharged work, Alternative Energy. These works integrate jazz, techno, drum-n-bass, field recordings of a FermiLab particle collider-and more. Visit sfsymphony.org/masonbates/ to learn more.
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ACSO Out and About
Youth orchestra leaders from all over California convened in San Luis Obispo on March 11 for a day of networking, sharing and learning from one another. This is the ACSO Youth Confab's 16th year.
back row: Micah Tischler, board member, Conejo Valley Youth Orchestra; Cheryl Marvin, executive director, Conejo Valley Youth Orchestra; Kris Sinclair, ACSO; Laura Kay Swanson, executive director, Los Angeles Youth Orchestra; Jim Hogan, executive director, California Youth Orchestra; Bruce Kiesling, conductor Pasadena Youth Symphony.
front row: Wendy Cilman, director of education, Santa Rosa Symphony; Brett Malta, manager, San Luis Obispo Youth Symphony; Julia Copeland, executive director, Youth Orchestras of Fresno; Kathryn Whitehouse, board member, Youth Orchestras of Fresno.
Kris Sinclair visiting the best Gamba player Joan Lounsbery in Los Angeles.
Festival Mosaic president Steve Bland; San Luis Obispo Symphony
board member Dwyne Willis at their new store, SLO Provisions.
SLO Provisions carries ACSO board member Mireya Jones' famous coffee.
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