Fine arts briefs News-Chronicle Neville curator lands new job Michael Telzrow, the curator of history at the Neville Public Museum, has been named director of research and interpretation at the Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum in Savannah, Ga. He will begin his new position in January. Telzrow has been curator of history at the Neville since 1997. He researched and developed such exhibits as "Punishment & Reform: 100 Years of the Green Bay Correctional Institution," "Fathers of Our Country: Presidential Images," "From Calumet to Cigarette: The Culture of Tobacco," "Best Beer in Any Case: A History of Brewing in Northeast Wisconsin" and "Privy to the Past: Inside America's Most Private Room." Gift of art marks 50th year The Charles Peterson painting "The Rehearsal" has been given to the Peninsula Music Festival in honor of its 50th anniversary season. Peterson completed the piece after attending rehearsals for a two-week period over the summer of 2001. The watercolor depicts the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra in rehearsal at the Door Community Auditorium, under the direction of maestro Victor Yampolski. John Browning is seated at the piano, with the ghost image of the group's founder, Thor Johnson, hovering over the rehearsal. Last week the painting, which has been on display at the festival offices in Ephraim, began a tour of Door County. Sites the piece will be on display include: Jack Anderson Gallery, Sister Bay, through Dec. 6; Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, Dec. 6-Jan. 11; Peninsula Art School Guenzel Gallery, Fish Creek, Jan. 11-Feb. 14; Columbine Originals, Sturgeon Bay, Feb. 14-March 22; Whitecaps Gallery, Baileys Harbor, March 21-April 25; and Anderson House Workbench, Ephraim, April 25-June 6. A limited edition reproduction of the work is available. For more information on the painting or its tour schedule or to purchase a print, call the Peninsula offices at 920-854-4060. Jazz ensembles set to swing The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Jazz Ensembles I and II will present their first concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts, 2420 Nicolet Drive. Jazz Ensemble I, directed by John Salerno, will feature UWGB alumnus Shawn Postell on trumpet in the Bob Mintzer piece "Beyond the Limit" and sax student Steve Johnson in Thelonius Monk's "Straight, No Chaser." Also featured will be alumnus Terry Iattoni on drums on the Salerno arrangement of "Samurai Samba," which also features sax player A.J. Kluth. A couple of Cole Porter tunes, "Love for Sale" and "Night and Day," with vocalist Ricardo Vogt, will be included in the Jazz Ensemble I portion of the concert. Jazz Ensemble II, under the direction of Thomas Pfotenhauer, will feature "Cerulean Sky," written by Lawrence University director of jazz studies Fred Sturm, the Rodgers and Hart piece "I Could Write a Book," "Fables of Faubus" by Charles Mingus and Pat Metheny's "Too Soon Tomorrow." Tickets for the concert are $6 for adults and $3 for students and can be ordered by calling 465-2676. American Folklore founder honored Fred Alley, founder of the American Folklore Theatre in Door County, received the national Mark R. Sumner Award, the only award that recognizes excellence in outdoor theater. The troupe's artistic director, Jeffrey Herbst, accepted the award posthumously presented to Alley, who died in May. The award was presented by the Institute of Outdoor Drama at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, which has a constituency of 123 theaters in 37 states. American Folklore Theatre has been a member of the institute for two years. Alley authored or collaborated on more than 20 AFT productions and wrote the script and lyrics for several of the group's more popular productions, including "Guys on Ice," "Lumberjacks in Love" and "The Bachelors." Quartet wins Lawrence honor The Veritas String Quartet has been named the winner of the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra Community Outreach Resident Ensemble fellowship competition. Members of the quartet are violinists Courtney J. Miller and John Zion, Melissa Taylor on viola and cellist Paul Wolfram. The group will perform several concerts at Fox Valley-area schools and retirement communities as part of the community outreach mission of the award.