Allegro

Currently Browsing: January, 2001

Final results of the Dec. 5 election of Local 802 officers appear below. The ballots were counted by the American Arbitration Association at Local 802’s offices on Dec. 5, after the polls closed, and the results were certified on Dec.

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Local 802 has reached agreement on a new four-year contract covering employment of musicians at the Theater at Madison Square Garden. It is patterned closely after the agreement reached earlier this year with Radio City Productions, and includes a 3.5

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Recording Campaign Update
Since Local 802 initiated the recording campaign in October, organizers and recording representatives have spoken to hundreds of musicians who work in the recording field. The focus of the conversations is to educate members about the money and benefits lost

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Heather Beaudoin
Next year promises a dramatic change in the dynamics of New York City politics. Recently enacted term limits mean that the mayor, comptroller, public advocate and 36 of the 51 City Council members are not eligible to run again. While

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Apollo Decision Confirmed Our Position: Musicians Are Employees
“An analysis of the factual record of this case in light of the governing authority reveals that the musicians here are employees, subject to Apollo’s right of control, without opportunity for entrepreneurial gain or loss in their relationship with the

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Recording Vice-President's Report
In preparing this report I reviewed the past year’s issues of Allegro, so that I could highlight the most important currents of our activity in 2000, rather than simply reporting numbers and statistics. That look back confirmed my sense that

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People-Powered Politics: TEMPO 802
Susan Borenstein, Field Representative, AFL-CIO
Working men and women mobilized through their unions at an unprecedented level in the AFL-CIO’s most ambitious political program to date: Labor 2000. Union members registered more people to vote (2.3 million union households were added to voter rolls); educated

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Viewpoints: Member to Member
Von Cello
Several columns by 802 members, offering advice on topics they have developed expertise in, have appeared in Allegro during the past year. The topics included: how to vest in the AFM pension plan, how to pursue music studies in Lehman

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Leo Ball
Joe Bennett played the trombone in many of the great postwar big bands. As a member of CBS studio orchestras, he was heard on the Garry Moore, Ed Sullivan and Jackie Gleason shows. He had a stint on Broadway and

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Jackelyn S. Frost, CSW
For many musicians, repetitive performance injuries may be more feared than stage fright or a hostile audience. Such injuries can destroy a musician’s career. And yet the more you practice to improve your music skills, the more the small, quick,

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Heather Beaudoin
TEMPORARY WORKERS DESERVE A PERMANENT VOICE OSHA ISSUES FINAL ERGONOMICS STANDARDS NO TAX DOLLARS FOR SWEATSHOPS NLRB RULES THAT POSTGRADUATES MAY ORGANIZE TEMPORARY WORKERS DESERVE A PERMANENT VOICE The AFL-CIO recently launched a national organizing campaign targeting temporary employment agencies,

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AUTHOR RESPONDS TO REVIEW To the Editor: I am compelled to write to you in response to John Glasel’s rather vicious review of my book “Trumpet Blues – The Life of Harry James.” Mr. Glasel’s unfavorable remarks certainly stood out,

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SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER DRUMMER A grievance between Local 802 and Niko Associates, producers of the Broadway musical Saturday Night Fever, arose when Local 802 visited a rehearsal in progress on Oct. 5, 1999, and discovered that a drum machine was

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Tony “Lane” Alessi – Guitar Samuel A. Coreys – Bassoon Harold Curtis – Saxophone Benny Fairbanks – Saxophone Vernel Fournier – Drums Louis G. Fransko – Violin Jean Frazer – Piano Serafino Gervino – Mandolin Lee Kleinman – Drums James

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October 17, 2000 -- November 28, 2000
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2000 Meeting called to order at 11:30 a.m. Present: Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Hafemeister, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Gale, Giannini, Reynolds, Rosen, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Jazz Advisory Committee

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Bill Crow
At a rehearsal of Ted Blumenthal’s big band, Pete Hyde gave me this one: When Charles Mingus’ jazz group was playing in New York, Bob Zottola dropped by the club to hear the band and to visit his friend, Paul

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