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Currently Browsing: March, 2001

Local 802’s Club Date Campaign Targets Ken James Orchestras

Chris Meckstroth

Ken James Orchestras, a Long Island club date office, is the newest focus of Local 802’s campaign to ensure that professional musicians receive health and pension benefits. The campaign has won a series of important victories over the last year

802 Brings a VH-1 Storytellers Program Under Contract

Local 802’s campaign to end dark recording dates scored a victory on Feb. 8, when the union signed an agreement covering Matchbox Twenty and the three horn and four string players backing them up for a taping of VH-1’s Storytellers

Entertainment Unions Begin Cooperative Meetings

Sparked by the experience of last year’s bitter SAG-AFTRA strike, a number of unions in New York City’s entertainment industry have begun meeting on a regular basis, seeking to develop a new level of unity in the face of increasingly

Local 802 Thanks Bob Ayers For Generous Donation of Timpani

Local 802 has become the recipient of an outstanding pair of timpani through the generosity and thoughtfulness of Bob Ayers. The donation was sparked by a small classified ad in Allegro, Ayers, a member of long standing in Local 802,

American Opera Musical Theatre Company Loses NLRB Appeal, Ordered to Bargain

On Jan. 8, the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. upheld a decision by its regional office ordering the American Opera Musical Theatre Company to negotiate with Local 802. The board ordered the employer, Diana Corto, to write letters

AFCU Introduces Versatile Check Card

Members of Actors Federal Credit Union can now pay for purchases directly from their AFCU checking account at over 15 million locations around the world, or withdraw cash at any one of more than 500,000 ATMs worldwide. All this has

Trustees Seek to Stabilize Health Benefits Plan Finances

Bill Moriarity

Over the past several months prolonged discussion has taken place among the trustees of the Local 802 Health Benefits Plan concerning the plan’s present financial dilemma. Beginning in 1999 a combination of factors has resulted in a precipitous decline in

Producers of The Double Bass Offer Discount to Local 802 Members

Local 802 members are likely to have a special interest in The Double Bass, a play by Patrick Süskind that explores the life and work of a professional musician on the back bench of the back row of the orchestra.

Guest Commentary

NYS Senator Roy M. Goodman

The case for public funding of the arts in New York is both cultural and economic. The intellectual and spiritual enrichment provided by the arts is incalculable. They improve quality of life, teach us to think, see, feel and understand.

2000 Tax Tips for Musicians

In recent years, as the tax season approached, Allegro has published extensive tax tips provided by Local 802’s accounting firm, Gould, Kobrick & Schlapp, P.C. Many aspects of the tax law have not changed for many years, and earlier summaries

The Musicians’ Voice

MEMBER URGES PROTESTS OF PBS REFUSAL TO LIST MUSICIAN CREDITS To the Editor: I was watching the jazz program on PBS and thought I saw Marty Napoleon playing piano with Louis Armstrong. Hoping to see if it was Marty, I

Legislative Update

Heather Beaudoin

COALITION SEEKS TO EXPAND LIVING WAGE LEGISLATION YELLOW CAB DRIVERS NEED OUR SUPPORT NYC COUNCIL MEMBERS ACT TO REMOVE TERM LIMITS NYS ASSEMBLY SETS HEARING ON VOTING PROCESS COALITION SEEKS TO EXPAND LIVING WAGE LEGISLATION The Living Wage Coalition

Musicians' Assistance Program

Jackelyn Frost, CSW

In recognition of the importance of early detection of breast cancer, Physician Volunteers for the Arts (PVA) is now providing free clinical breast exams and mammograms each month, to women ages 40-65. A mammogram is a safe, low dose x-ray

Women's History Month

Joy Portugal

Saxophone player Sue Terry has been playing with some of the greatest jazz artists since very early in her career. Her ability to work with this community of players has helped her win recognition in a field that has often

by Herb Wasserman, Writers Club Press, 2000, 267 pages (trade paperback), $14.95

Bill Crow

Herb Wasserman was one of the musicians who populated the world I knew when I first came to New York City. I ran into him regularly at Birdland, Charlie’s Tavern, the Turf Restaurant, the B&G Coffee Shop, Nola Studios, and

Requiem

Robert Allen – Piano/Conductor/Arranger Beatrice Berwald – Piano Albert H. Bryant – Trumpet Henrietta Carrick – Electronic Organ Frank L. Gibson – Saxophone Arthur Gregg – Saxophone Ernest Gruen – Saxophone Fred D. Hinger – Timpani/Percussion Danny Hurd – Piano/Arranger

January 9, 2001 -- January 23, 2001

TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2001 Meeting called to order at 11:20 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Hafemeister, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Gale, Giannini, Landolfi, Rohdin, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Assistant Director

Bill Crow’s Band Room