Allegro

Currently Browsing: July, 2003

A Look Back - and the Road Ahead
Leonard Leibowitz
As far back as the 1970’s, when Gerald Schoenfeld began threatening Local 802 with the Moog synthesizer if the union struck over minimums, producers have been seeking some mechanical device to replace live musicians. In 2003 they believed they had

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A Way for Musicians and Other Artists to Extend Their Health Insurance
A new bill that provides state funds to pay for a portion of entertainers’ COBRA payments has passed the State Legislature and is now awaiting Governor Pataki’s signature. COBRA – the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act – is a federal

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Lower Manhattan Could Spark Cultural Renewal
Bill Moriarity
For several months now the New York City Central Labor Council and Local 802 have been discussing the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and the role that the cultural institutions and entertainment businesses might ultimately play in that

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Guest Commentary
This commentary first appeared on the Web site of the AFL-CIO. The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics April jobs report confirmed what millions of U.S. workers know all-too well: The nation’s job crisis is bleak and getting bleaker. Some 8.8

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Member to Member
Michael Drapkin
As a member of 802, I have read a number of pieces over the last year in Allegro on the subject of digital downloads. One of the common themes has been that digital downloads of music and other media are

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The Beat on the Street
Downloading music from the Internet is probably here to stay. Yet it is unclear whether this is going to be good or bad for musicians. There is legal downloading, like when musicians sell their own music through their own Web

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Local 802 Legal Corner
Harvey S. Mars, Esq.
Local 802 Counsel
Leibowitz & Mars LLP
Click here for Part II and Part III What do you do if you encounter discrimination while working as a musician? The first thing you should ask yourself is, am I performing under an 802 union contract? If you are

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Leslie Cardell, CSW
If you think the problem of chemical dependency hasn’t touched your life, stop and look around. According to a conservative estimate by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 20 million Americans are affected by addiction. The music industry

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Lifestyle Notes
Dr. Diane Gioia-Bargonetti
(This article, submitted by a Local 802 member, contains advice and suggestions intended to improve one’s health and well-being. Local 802 and Allegro offer no endorsement or recommendation regarding the efficacy or safety of any of the remedies suggested, and

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by Leslie Gourse, Schirmer Trade Books, 209 pages, $25, hardcover
With this book, Ms. Gourse adds another winner to her admirable list of biographies of jazz musicians. She gives an interesting account of Art Blakey’s life and career, from his birth into poverty in 1919 in Pittsburgh, to his death

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Heather Beaudoin
CLOCK STOPS ON OVERTIME ATTACK FCC EXPANDS MEDIA GUIDELINES ANTISMOKING LAWS SHOULDN’T BE WEAKENED PROTECTING CHILD PERFORMERS UNEMPLOYMENT CONTINUES TO RISE CLOCK STOPS ON OVERTIME ATTACK In a victory for the labor movement, the U.S. House withdrew a bill scheduled

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THEATRICAL READING CONTRACTS “Mambo Kings”: After some back and forth with management, Local 802 reached an agreement with the Mambo Kings Company (Allan Williams, general manager) covering four musicians for the developmental production of “Mambo Kings.” The wages for side

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Louis Adler – Bass Joseph W. Barufaldi – Saxophone Ovid Bastien – Bass Peter Compo – Violin Andrew F. Fitzgerald – Clarinet Ruth Freeman-Gudeman – Flute Ignatius N. Gennusa – Clarinet Charles K. Johnson – Trombone Leo Kinstler – Trumpet

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April 29, 2003 -- May 20, 2003
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2003 Meeting called to order at 11:25 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Financial Vice-President Hafemeister, Executive Board members Crow, Gale, Giannini, Rohdin, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Assistant Director Lennon,

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Bill Crow
Art Baron told me about a club date he played at one of Manhattan’s major hotels. He arrived a bit early, while Tony Sotos and Eddie Montiero were playing the preheat. The hors d’oeuvres tables were groaning with food, and

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