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Thursday, November 17, 2011

DPO co-commissions new work

By Terry Morris | Thursday, November 17, 2011, 04:04 PM

The Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra will put its instruments where its money is Friday and Saturday, Nov. 18 and 19, when it performs the new William Bolcom composition “Prometheus” at the Schuster Center, Second and Main streets in Dayton.

The orchestra co-commissioned the work along with others including the Pacific Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Knoxville Symphony and New Mexico Symphony.

The Schuster concerts will include guest pianist Jeffery Biegel and the DPO Chorus. Music director Neal Gittleman will conduct.

The “Promethean Exploits” program will include three other works that touch on the theme: Beethoven’s “Prometheus Overture,” Liszt’s “Prometheus Symphonic Poem” and Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 8.”

The orchestra’s performance of the Bolcom work and a new piece it programmed last season, Michael Daugherty’s electric guitar concerto “Gee’s Bend,” will be broadcast at 6 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 20, on the new program “Instant Rewind” on WDPR-FM (Classical 88.1).

TIckets to the Nov. 18 and 19 concert are $9 to $59 at (888) 228-3630 or www.daytonphilharmonic.com.

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Buttacavoli takes helm at DVAC

By Terry Morris | Thursday, November 17, 2011, 10:55 AM

The Dayton Visual Arts Center has named Eva Buttacavoli its new executive director.

Formerly the executive director of Film Dayton, Buttacavoli succeeds Jane Black, who left DVAC in August to become associate director of the Dayton Art Institute.

A reception to introduce her will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, at DVAC, 118 N. Jefferson St., Dayton.

Buttacavoli, who moved to Dayton in 2009, has BA and MS degrees in art history and art education from Florida International University. She has taught art, co-founded the education department of the Miami Art Museum and served as director of education for the Austin Museum of Art.

In Dayton, besides serving as the first executive director of FilmDayton, she directed teacher programs for the art education organization the Muse Machine and served as a freelance curator.

DVAC, which had a budget of $366,000 in the year ending June 30, 2011, presents contemporary exhibitions and programs that promote visual artists who live and work in the Dayton region.

More than 43 percent of its income came from the sale of art. Memberships accounted for more than 10 percent.

For more information about the non-profit organization, go to www.daytonvisualarts.org.

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