Allegro

Currently Browsing: April, 2000

Collections Approach $1.5 Million Mark
Jay Schaffner
Local 802 recording musicians received almost $1.5 million in grievance collections and late payment penalties in 1999 – a huge sum they would not have received without union intervention. Grievance collections ran about 25 percent higher than the previous year

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Union, Health Plan and Providers Join to Offer Affordable Options
Preserving your hearing is one of the most important things you can do for yourself as a professional musician. Hearing loss is not inevitable; you can take precautions and protect yourself. The first step is testing. Every musician should have

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AFCU Annual Meeting
Substantial increases in assets, transactions, and services to members were highlighted at the Actor’s Federal Credit Union annual meeting, which was held on Feb. 25. AFCU President Jeff Rodman reported healthy increases in a number of key statistics: The credit

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Guest Commentary
For the past several months, Americans have been inundated with stories about the 2000 elections. With so many talking heads making so much noise, the natural reaction has been to tune them out. But this year’s elections have a rhythm

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Judy West
CITY COUNCIL PASSES THREE PRO-WORKER BILLS A battle is shaping up between the City Council and Mayor Rudolph Giuliani over three important pro-worker bills, which the council recently passed and the mayor has vowed to veto. On Feb. 29, Council

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THE SUPPER CLUB Musicians who play at the Supper Club with bandleader Michael Smith recently voted to approve a new two-year contract. Wages will rise from $113.50 per performance to $121 in year one and $125 in year two, a

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A rally against health care profiteers and for health care for all will take place on Saturday, April 1, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Washington Square Park in Manhattan. Rally speakers will include consumers, health care providers, elected

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President's Report
Bill Moriarity
The last two issues of Allegro have contained letters from Canadian AFM and local officers which addressed the subject of so-called runaway film scoring. The writers told of their experience with this phenomenon, and the steps that have been taken

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Controller's Report
Jon Bogert
For the year ended Dec. 31, 1999, Local 802 realized a gain of $36,509. This was a decline of almost eighty per cent from earnings of $167,761 realized during the preceding year. The audited financial statements for the year appear

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Viewpoints
Aaron Minsky, a.k.a. Von Cello
They act like they are the artist’s best friend. They portray the traditional record companies as the enemy. They claim that the internet is the great equalizer. They say, “Distribute your music through our web site and millions of people

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Victor Fusco, Esq.
My last article (see February Allegro) introduced four musicians who had developed injuries while working. One of them was Carolyn, a violinist who developed carpal tunnel syndrome as a result of playing her instrument. (A brief description of this condition,

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Victor Fusco, Esq.
Carpel tunnel syndrome, a hand and wrist disorder that may bring debilitating pain and weakness of the thumb and fingers, is the most common of all injuries that result from jobs requiring repetitive motions. The incidence of repetitive motion injuries

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Jackelyn S. Frost, CSW
Nearly half of all Americans have difficulty sleeping. Research indicates that sleep problems have reached epidemic proportions and may be the country’s number one health problem. A recent study by the National Sleep Foundation revealed that 64 percent of people

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by Tony Bennett, with Will Friedwald. Pocket Books, 1998, 312 pages, $25 hardcover
Bill Crow
Tony Bennett has aptly named this book of memoirs with the title of one of his big hits in the 1960s. His good life in music has included a recording career that began in 1947, took off in the fifties,

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by Stephen Walsh, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 698 pages, hardcover, $35.
Kate Light
Stephen Walsh’s new biography of Igor Stravinsky – volume one of two – is, in a word, spectacular. In the 20th century, long past the age of court composers or predictable patronage, every piece has its very specific and fortuitous

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Lee Bond – Bass Jerry Brainin – Piano Tee Carson– Piano Charles Colin – Trumpet Forest B. Corley – Clarinet/Arranger Wallace I. Curtis – Saxophone Frank D’Elia – Piano Paul K. Deneka – Piano James Douglas – Clarinet Otto J.

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January 25, 2000 -- February 22, 2000
TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2000 Meeting called to order at 10:45 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Executive Board members Crow, Gale, Rosen, Shankin, Simon and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Jazz Advisory Committee Liaison Owens. Financial Vice-President Landolfi and Recording Vice-President Price were excused

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Bill Crow
Playing at Mister Kelly’s in Chicago around 1966, with a trio that backed some of the acts that appeared there, bassist Joe Levinson inadvertently became part of the act. Kaye Ballard swept onstage on opening night wearing a fancy gown

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