Pacific Symphony executive director Louis G. Spisto...

Pacific Symphony executive director Louis G. Spisto has been named president of the Assn. of California Symphony Orchestras, succeeding Deborah Rutter, executive director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, in a one-year term. The association was founded in 1969 to provide management and administrative services and workshops to the more than 130 orchestras, related organizations and music festivals in the state.