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Currently Browsing: October, 1999

Labor Movement Urges, "Vote No in November!"
Joy Portugal
A grab-bag of proposals to amend the New York City charter will appear on the November ballot – and labor and civic organizations are mounting an energetic “vote no” campaign. They charge that the ballot measure is a massive attack

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Tim Dubnau
Local 802’s campaign to convince Starlight Orchestras to uphold area standards and begin providing its musicians with benefits has kicked into high gear. The union has begun informational leafleting at selected Starlight affairs, is holding conversations with potential clients to

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Convention Delegates Updated on Pamphlet B Talks
Maura Giannini
The Theatre Musicians of America (TMA) held their third annual conference in Chicago on Aug. 23 and 24. The conference was attended by many of the regional directors and some officers and members of the organization. Federation representatives included President

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www.local802afm.org
Jennifer Cronin
With the launching of a new web site this month, Local 802 took another step toward bringing the power of computers and the internet to our members. Musicians had already begun dropping in to use the local’s computer for such

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Free internet access for 802 members became available at Local 802 in July, when a computer on the third floor was dedicated to the use of members in good standing. And as the word got out over the summer, several

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President's Report
Bill Moriarity
The position of designated – or house – contractor on Broadway is one of divided allegiance and uncertain authority. In most instances the designated contractor was not the hiring agent for the show, yet most of the ongoing, day-to-day problems

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Recording Vice- President's Report
Erwin L. Price
For the fiscal year which ended April 30, 1999, Local 802 received an allocation of $347,546 from the Recording Industries Music Performance Trust Fund and supplemented this with co-sponsorship funds of $1,020,475. That made more than $1,350,000 available for performances

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SESAME STREET DEBATE CONTINUES To the Editor: Another letter from a 22-year former member of the Sesame Street band, who was not allowed to attend contract negotiations. I have just picked up the three checks that were paid me by

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Guest Commentary
Some of the most eloquent voices raised to challenge the anti-democratic nature of efforts to revise the New York City Charter have been those of the labor movement. Following are excerpts from statements by leaders of two of the city’s

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RENT 2000 CAMPAIGN NEEDS VOLUNTEERS Most tenants in rent-regulated apartments are under the impression that they have nothing to worry about until 2003, when the rent laws come up for renewal in the State Legislature. But in fact both rent

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by James K. Galbraith, The Free Press, 1998, 291 pp., hardcover, $26.00
“What’s 100 economists at the bottom of the sea? A good start!” Though this twist on the old lawyers’ joke doesn’t appear in economics professor (University of Texas at Austin) James K. Galbraith’s new book, “Created Unequal,” he levels plenty

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Angelo Barbaria – Piano Edye Byrde – Drums Marge Chiurazzi – Harp Warren L. Covington – Trombone/Conductor Percy Fagen – Trumpet Jack French – Piano/Conductor Diana B. Halprin – Violin George Koenig – Saxophone Michael Levine – Drums Abraham Levitt

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Denise Boudreau-Scott
It’s likely that most Allegro readers have recently read an article or watched a television report on the ever-increasing numbers of Americans over 65. The statistics are dramatic. Thirteen percent of the current population is over 65, and that figure

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August 10, 1999 -- August 17, 1999
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1999 Meeting called to order at 11:33 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Landolfi, Executive Board members Crow, Gale, Giannini, Hafemeister, Rosen and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Jazz Advisory Committee Liaison Owens. Aug. 3 minutes

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Bill Crow
Frank Dickinson passed along a Country Music Glossary that he found on the internet. Here are a few definitions: 12-Tone Scale: what the police weigh your truck with. A-440: the highway that runs around Nashville. Bach Chorale: place behind the

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