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Members Also Call for Financial Accountability
See below article for full text of adopted bylaw resolutions. Members voted to reinstate slate voting and to increase financial accountability for officers and employees, in a packed membership meeting on June 13. Slate voting – or “ticket voting” –

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What’s Really Going On Here?
David Lennon
My statement to the members at the June 13 membership meeting: I want to report to you that on Tuesday, June 6 the Local 802 Executive Board – by a vote of 5 to 4 – passed a motion asking

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Recording Vice-President's Report
Bill Dennison
On Tuesday, June 13, more than 300 members attended a regular Local 802 membership meeting in a remarkable display of union democracy. Members stayed for nearly three hours — some standing during most of that time — to ensure that

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Money for musicians. That’s one reason Local 802 exists: to make sure that you get your fair share. In 2005, the union collected at least half a million dollars for musicians – and the figures are still coming in, promising

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Frank Lindquist It started a few seasons ago as an experiment. How could Local 802 facilitate negotiations with the many commercial producers of Off Broadway musicals? Every new contract covered the same basic issues over and over with each new

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Essie Hayes
Jazz musicians have muscle! Musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center orchestras have ratified a new five-year contract. The agreement covers both the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO). This year’s negotiations proved that musicians

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Theresa Couture
Local 802 is pleased to announce the launch of a new Web site devoted exclusively to the union’s referral service, at www.NYCLiveMusic.com. This site is for members of the public who are looking to hire professional musicians, mainly for single

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Honor Roll
The Bohemians, one of the premier musicians’ clubs in the world, celebrated 802 honor member, pianist and conductor Abba Bogin on May 8 at its annual gala dinner. Bogin, who is currently the club’s president, told Allegro that he was,

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Organizing Matters
John O’Connor
Folk concerts are union gigs? They should be and they are! In February, AFM Local 1000, the federation’s only non-geographical local, asked 802’s Executive Board for permission to negotiate with the Pine Woods Folk Club to cover the venue’s main

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Photo Section
No War! Local 802 musicians and staff marched with thousands of others on April 29. Allegro asked musicians why they marched against the war; check out their answers. Photos by Joy Portugal. I almost never miss a peace rally or

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Guest Commentary
Bob Master
The Working Families Party and our supporters have both an opportunity and a challenge in front of us, both unmatched in the party’s history. I’ll discuss these in a moment. But first I want to talk about our responsibility. We

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802 Legal Corner
Harvey Mars
When Congress formulated the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, a huge category of employees was unfortunately omitted from coverage: public sector employees. In New York State, until the Taylor Law was enacted in 1967, public sector employees were not

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A Lifetime Activist Gets the SpotlightMusical Lives, Musical Stories
Mikael Elsila
How do you sum up a life of 89 years – especially a life as rich as activist Julius Margolin? It’s almost an impossible task, but a new film about Margolin is up to it. “A Union Man: The Life

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Leo Ball: The Man Behind the HornMusical Lives, Musical Stories
Bill Crow
Leo Ball has been a familiar face around the music world of both coasts for many years, and at the offices of Local 802 since 1990. He has interviewed many musicians for Allegro, including Joe Bennett, Chris Griffin, Marty Napoleon,

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Musicians' Assistance Program
Leslie Cardell, LCSW
We all want to be loving and supportive to friends or family members in times of need. This would be a pretty cold world if we weren’t willing to help each other out when the going gets tough. Constantly having

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The Musicians’ Voice is an open forum for discussion about the state of union affairs. The views expressed here do not express the views of Local 802. Letters must be 300 words or less. Send them to Allegro, c/o Local

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Heather Beaudoin
LOCAL 802 ENDORSEMENTS Local 802 has endorsed Eliot Spitzer for governor, Andrew Cuomo for attorney general, Hillary Clinton for senator and Alan Hevesi for controller. This election year is very important: please register and vote! You must register no less

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“Chef’s Theatre.” Local 802 counsel Harvey Mars negotiated a settlement with Marty Bell, the producer of “Chef’s Theatre: A Musical Feast,” an Off Broadway production that appeared at the Supper Club. The production is currently on hiatus because of a

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If you’ve been called for a gig in Key West, watch out. Key West is home to two orchestras. One, Key West Pops, works under local engagement contracts. The other, Key West Symphony, outsources musicians from across the country, primarily

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Lewis Anderson – Saxophone Tarik Bulut – Drums/Arranger/Copyist Larry Covell – Saxophone John J. Hicks – Piano/Arranger Colette Kozusko – Cello Homer R. Mensch – Bass John W. Schultz – Saxophone Joseph Siegelman – Violin Tarik Bulut Tarik Bulut, a

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March 7, 2006 -- June 6, 2006
TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2006 Meeting called to order at 11:30 a.m. Present: President Lennon, Financial Vice President Blumenthal, Recording Vice President Dennison, Executive Board members Babich, Gagliardi, Landolfi, Shankin, Weiss, Whitaker, Assistant to the President Delia and Jazz Advisory Committee

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Breaktime is a new feature in Allegro. E-mail your comments to Allegro editor Mikael Elsila at melsila@local802afm.org. Click here to download crossword puzzle blank Sight-Singing Challenge ANSWERS: Click here to download crossword puzzle answers Answer to Sight-sing Challenge:“Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”

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Bill Crow
When record producer George Avakian assisted the New Orleans Jazz Club in producing the first New Orleans Jazz Festival in October 1955, where he made the world’s first recordings at a jazz festival for Columbia Records, he was ceremoniously given

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