Allegro

Currently Browsing: November, 2004

802 and New York Philharmonic Achieve New Contract
On Oct. 8, a new three-year agreement was reached between the New York Philharmonic and Local 802. The musicians overwhelmingly ratified the contract. The agreement covers the period from Sept. 21, 2004 through Sept. 20, 2007. The musicians had voted

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Virtual Orchestra Machine Continues to Lose Ground
Mary Donovan
Local 802 and Dodger Stage Holding Theatricals have reached a two-year agreement for the Off Broadway production “Bare: A Pop Opera” that includes a ban on the virtual orchestra machine. Dodger Theatricals is mainly known in New York City for

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Jay Blumenthal
Rapid changes in technology have presented an interesting dilemma with which the AFM, locals and various orchestra managements are currently wrestling. Prior to the advent of the Internet, radio stations broadcast their signals over the airwaves. Today, in addition to

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For the first time ever, Allegro has won awards at the national level. This year Local 802 entered the journalistic excellence contest sponsored by the International Labor Communications Association. Allegro has won many awards in the past from the local

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Labor Solidarity
Local 802 members and other union workers rallied on Sept. 29 in support of the expansion and rehabilitation of the far West Side. The rally was sponsored by Local 802, Teamsters Joint Council 16, the Building and Construction Trades Council

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Organizing Matters
Amy Cocuzza
History and tradition tell us that the education of youth is one of the critical means of preserving any movement or culture. This is intuitive; the students of today are the leaders of tomorrow. Any group with a collective interest

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New Contract Allows Pension Flexibility
Sue Terry
Have you ever filed a union contract on a job you booked yourself? If not, you missed out on getting pension and health contributions for yourself and your band members. But there’s no time like right now to learn how

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Local 802 is taking to the streets in what is an initial step toward renewed organizing in the club date field. Beginning in late October and through November, about a dozen organizers, business reps and Club Date Organizing Committee members

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…and Other Pitfalls of the Single Engagement FieldMember to Member
Diane Michaels
So you’ve got a gig on Broadway, or you play with a symphony, but you get a call to play a wedding on a Saturday night. The pay sounds great — $300 (cash!) for a one-hour ceremony, so you book

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Kim Scharnberg Orchestrates an All-Acoustic Show
Lynne Bond
You’re sitting in a Broadway theatre thumbing through your Playbill. The house lights fade out and you turn your eyes toward the stage anticipating the performance which will now begin. Then the music starts, sounding larger than life. There was

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Musicians At Work
Broadway on Broadway is the theatre community’s annual season kick-off event, co-produced by the League and the Times Square Alliance. This free outdoor concert on Sept. 12 gave audiences a sneak preview of this fall’s new musicals, plus performances from

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Musicians At Work
Local 802 helped sponsor the 100th anniversary of Count Basie’s birth with a concert by the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra in Bryant Park in August. Featured were Sam Burtis (trombone), Billy Drewes (sax, flute and clarinet), Earl Gardner (trumpet), Dennis Irwin

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THEATRE REP GETS RAVE REVIEWS Mary Donovan was recently promoted to the position of principal theatre rep, where her duties will be expanded to include Broadway and Off Broadway. Donovan first became interested in unions by working on a successful

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New Bill Gives Relief to Musicians
Mikael Elsila
If you’ve fallen off your health insurance and need help paying your COBRA continuation premiums, you may be in luck. After years of lobbying, a coalition of entertainment unions — including Local 802 — has succeeded in getting a new

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Guest Commentary
Assemblyman Richard L. Brodksy
The explosive rise in the cost of health insurance has had a devastating effect on the entertainment industry, especially for those working on Broadway and around New York state. It was our responsibility to change this. The coalition we formed

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Impressions of Joe Temperley
Leo Ball
When I first met Joe, he was a burly two-fisted Scotsman, with very little patience for nonsense. He also had one of the gentlest approaches to the baritone sax that I had ever heard. As with many a musician, his

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802 Legal Corner
Harvey S. Mars, Esq.
Musicians often wonder how they should do business. There are primarily five ways to organize a business. From most complicated to least complicated, they are: corporation, limited liability corporation (LLC), limited liability partnership (LLP), general partnership, and sole proprietor. CORPORATION

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Leslie Cardell
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. Perfecting your skills as a musician takes enormous determination and focus, and a drive to excel can be very helpful in maintaining the discipline required to succeed. Sometimes, however, our focus on

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Except where noted, the following agreements include health benefits of $7.25 per call (capped at $58 per week), doubling premiums of 12.5 percent for the first and 6.25 percent for each additional, a synthesizer premium of 25 percent, and a

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August 31, 2004 -- September 7, 2004
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 2004 Meeting called to order at 11:20 a.m. Present: Recording Vice President Dennison, Financial Vice President Blumenthal, Executive Board members Gagliardi, Gale, Giannini, Landolfi, Schaffner, Shankin, Weiss and Assistant to the President Delia. President Lennon excused while

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Forum Presented by Health Care for All/NJ
PANELISTS:Sen. Jon S. Corzine*, Rep. Donald M. Payne*, Charles Granatir, MD (Physicians for a National Health Program), Assemblywoman Loretta Weinberg (Chair, NJ Assembly Health Committee)*, Bill Kane (President, NJ State Industrial Union Council), Anjali Taneja (Jack Rutledge Fellow, American Medical

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Bill Crow
I got a call last summer from a leader who said, “I have a gig for a Dixie trio that I can’t do. Do you want to do it?” He told me the date and hours and the money, and

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