Early figures indicate that the union collected $1,125,540 during the past year through its energetic enforcement of contracts in the recording field, on Broadway and Off-Broadway, for hotels and club date single engagements, music prep and Pamphlet B tours. As

Members of all the freelance orchestras attended a strike authorization meeting on Jan. 22, to hear a report on the slow progress of negotiations. While the New York Pops had reached agreement in December, followed by the Little Orchestra Society,

The Fantasticks opened off-Broadway on May 3, 1960, and played at the 150-seat Sullivan Street Theatre in the Village for 42 years, until it closed on Jan. 13, 2002. The closing made front-page news in the New York Times and

“How long must we wait for health and pension?” was the question posed by music teachers who work for the Midori and Friends Foundation. Frustrated with the slow pace of bargaining talks, teachers and Organizing Department staff passed out flyers

Local 802 recording musicians received close to one million dollars in grievance collections and late payment penalties in 2001, thanks to the union’s intervention. Of that amount, $908,096 was for wages and benefits, and $78,104 was for late payments. Some

It never ceases to amaze me how far women have come in the music business since I began working as a professional musician in the 1960s. We are a long way from the days of all-male orchestras and jazz bands.

From a World War II USO tour that lasted two years to her most recent recording, “One Morning in May,” pianist Barbara Carroll has been on a lifelong musical journey. She began improvising on the piano at the age of

The lifestyle of many musicians tends to be highly unstructured, since work schedules and sleep schedules can be erratic. This unstructured lifestyle may attract many musicians, who already possess an ingrained aversion to structure. But often a general tendency toward

REMEMBERING ALEC FILA To the Editor: Thank you for including the name of my father-in-law, the extraordinary trumpeter Alec Fila, in the Requiem listing in February’s Allegro. It would have meant a lot to him. Poor health and the demise

OFF-BROADWAY The Last 5 Years: Local 802 has negotiated a one-year agreement with The Last 5 Years, L.L.C., Roy Gabay, General Manager, Arielle Tepper & Marty Bell, Producers, for the six musicians performing in this production at the 399-seat Minetta

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2001 Meeting called to order at 11:22 a.m. Present: President Moriarity, Recording Vice-President Price, Executive Board members Blumenthal, Crow, Gale, Giannini, Landolfi, Reynolds, Rohdin, Shankin and Weiss, Controller Bogert, Assistant to the President Dennison, Jazz Advisory Committee

Last November I flew with the Cab Calloway band down to Bonita Springs, Florida, to play an outdoor concert at the Brooks Center. The bandstand was at the edge of a beautiful lagoon. We set up during a colorful sunset