Allegro

Currently Browsing: March, 2001

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bill Crow
Milt Hinton left us during the last Christmas season after a rich, full life of 90 years. Much beloved in the jazz community, “The Judge” was the dean of jazz bassists and one of the most recorded bassists in New

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