Allegro

Currently Browsing: May, 2002

Freelance Negotiations Update
The current round of freelance concert negotiations moved one step closer to completion last month, as Local 802 and the Brooklyn Philharmonic resolved outstanding local issues and wrapped up their extended, and sometimes contentious, bargaining for a new agreement. Last

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Justice for Jazz Artists
When Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Charlie Haden and a five-piece ensemble appeared at the Iridium jazz club for a week last October, there was often a line waiting to get in. The group performed songs from Haden’s latest album, “Nocturne,”

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Rent 2002 Campaign
The May issue of Allegro includes a poster for the Rent 2002 campaign – whose goal is to persuade the State Legislature and the Governor to renew and strengthen rent control and rent stabilization laws in 2002, a year before

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The following resolutions have been submitted for consideration at the membership meeting to be held Tuesday, June 18, at 3 p.m. in the Local 802 Club Room. Please note that proposed new language is in italics. Language to be deleted

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Important Health Benefits Plan Update
The 802 Health Benefits Plan has just implemented a new procedure for processing claims, in an effort to reduce delays that a number of members have experienced. The HBP is asking members who qualify for Plan A or Plan B

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Before musicians get in the position of not having health insurance, they should consider taking a form of preventative care. “The first thing we’d ask members who aren’t covered by the union’s health plan to do is to call the

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A Call to Justice Advocates
The Health Care Access Resolution (House Concurrent Resolution 99) was introduced in April 2001, “directing Congress to enact legislation by October 2004 that provides access to comprehensive health care for all Americans.” A campaign is now under way to make

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The History of Broadway Theatre Minimums
Bill Moriarity
Due to the hit-or-miss nature of Local 802 records and an absence of specific information in Allegro articles prior to 1983, the background and history of theatre minimums has been difficult to obtain with any accuracy. However, by piecing together

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Reprinted from "The Pits," the newsletter of the Broadway Theatre Committee
Bill Dennison
In less than a year Local 802 will begin negotiations for a new agreement covering musicians employed on Broadway. How has Broadway theatre fared over the last decade? What kind of economic environment are we now facing? What was the

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Free Hearing Tests Set for April 29 and June 3
On March 27, Local 802 launched a hearing conservation program aimed at addressing members’ concerns that years of exposure to sound may eventually cause hearing loss that can affect their job performance, and contribute to difficulties in social situations as

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Jackelyn S. Frost, CSW
The music industry is a very difficult business to be in, but many excellent musicians add to the inherent difficulties by failing to follow through in various ways. Have you found yourself showing up late to gigs? Not networking in

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BROADWAY PIT JOBS AN ANOMOLY To the Editor: I have been a full-time working pianist in New York City hotels for over 20 years now and have never come close to cracking the Broadway pit scene. I have worked with

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Heather Beaudoin
BROADWAY RETURNS $1 MILLION IN AID DISASTER UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE EXTENDED CITY COUNCIL URGES ADDITIONAL CUTS TO CITY AGENCIES COUNCIL URGES END TO PREDATORY LENDING NEW YORK STATE BUDGET LATE AGAIN BROADWAY RETURNS $1 MILLION IN AID New York City provided

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OFF-BROADWAY Forbidden Broadway 2001, A Spoof Odyssey: A two-year agreement with FBNY Limited Partnership, John Freedson, Producer, covers the music director in this production, which is now being presented at the 199-seat Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. Earlier productions were staged in

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George E. Banks – Piano/Arranger/Copyist William E. Bivens – Saxophone Philip Cadway – Bass David J. Cogan – Violin Dorothy DeLay – Violin Harold Ehrmann – Saxophone Melvin L. Flood – Flute Susan Follari – Viola Carl Forte – Drums

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February 26, 2002 -- March 5, 2002
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2002 Meeting called to order at 11:40 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Hafemeister, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Landolfi, Reynolds, Rohdin, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Jazz Advisory

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Bill Crow
Maura Gianini passed along a letter she got from Paul Grosney in Ontario: At an affair at the Beth Zedek Synagogue in Toronto, a guy came to the bandstand and made some odd musical requests. The leader asked him, “Which

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