I. OH WHERE, OH WHERE HAS OUR QUORUM GONE?
II. JUSTIN’S WRAP-UP
III. COMMENTS
IV. EVENTS

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I. OH WHERE, OH WHERE HAS OUR QUORUM GONE?

Once again there was no quorum at Monday’s
Local 47’s general membership meeting. The meeting
was chaired by VP Acosta and after calling the meeting
at 7:10, he had the officers give reports as well as a
report from the newly formed Freelance Musicians
Committee. There were little more than 10 members there
besides the board and committee members.

The FMC laid out a list of goals. More on these as we get
the information.

THE COMMITTEE

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II. JUSTIN’S WRAP-UP

Dear Committee,

This latest issue is so Feiry! so much participation!

The purpose of Mr. Justin Goode Business was this: if Mr. Cheerful
had made these claims of impropriety against the RMALA, then
he would just seem a whiner; whereas if Mr. J.G. Business makes
them, he is a real RMALA jerk, but being a hero in his own mind,
a possible focal point of justifiable anger against the RMALA.

Thank you for putting up with him. I myself loved to hate him.
Here then is his last bombastic installment, after which Mr.
Cheerful will get on with the further dissemination of incendiary
information. JGB is in rare form (and stilted style); as over the
top as is humanly possible.

I will not do this ungainly type of prose again, I promise.

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Mr. Justin Goode Business here.

It has come to my attention, through an elaborate network
of cut-throats and scum-bags, that Mr. Cheerful intends
to spread unfounded and vicious mis-information about the
history of the music union and the collusion of the RMALA
in the deliberate destruction of the music industry in Los
Angeles. Believe not a word of it my dear friends! We, in the
upper echelons of the RMALA, are the true keepers of the
Film Music Faith. I mean, what would it benefit us to keep
you in the dark?

In my previous article, Mr. J. G. Business resolutely and
undoubtedly, decisively debunked Mr. Cheerful’s upcoming
ill-conceived list of grievances against the RMALA that the
lowly (AFM but non-RMALA musicians) have pulled out of
their butts, in an effort to cover up for their lack of musical
talent and dedication.

Now to pre-emptively address some of Mr. Cheerful’s
direct (and future) accusations.

1. The RMALA has used its voting Monopoly to disenfranchise
the bulk of the AFM membership: False, the last time I checked,
the entire membership could still vote. Come and vote. Where
are you? If you truly out-number us then at least pretend
to give a $#!†.

2. Pledged fealty to non-musician contractor: And for good
reason.

3. Used unscrupulous business practices to put others in
town out of work: Already covered in my last illuminating
article. Keep up people!

4. Adopted a One Studio/One Orchestra premise: Not true,
that’s just the way it has worked out. Our original idea was
to have only one orchestra, the one-studio thing is just a
happy co-incidence. Sorry that all you other studios are not
needed anymore. You would have perished by now anyway.
(Why am I addressing a corpse?)

5. Engaged in totally non-union like behavior: The union is
run by election. If you do not like the way it is run then show
up and vote: otherwise shut up.

6. We swoop down like hawks and steal the work from younger
musicians: OK, our leaders do, but most of us just take the
jobs we are called for. Entertainment is a tough business. We
are under no obligation to turn down work. If you have a
problem with the carrion-eating vultures sitting atop our ladder,
vote them out.

7. We keep a secret black list of “enemies:” Prove it, losers.

8. The RMALA has bought the leadership of Local 47 and
the National AFM: To the victor go the spoils. So start voting
or be quiet. Or maybe just show up. Or maybe just bow out.
Face it, you have been vanquished, now surrender!

9. Hypocritical RMALAers do dark dates, too: OK, its true. But
so do you. We do not target you at all when you do dark dates;
unless you try to steal OUR gigs, or unless you try to undermine
OUR business model, or unless we want to steal YOUR gigs for
ourselves, or unless we want to scuttle YOUR gigs to keep our
own prices high, or unless we want to scuttle YOUR gigs just to
keep all you other talented local musicians from gaining valuable
recording experience, or unless we want to scuttle YOUR gigs so
that producers continue to be unaware that there are other great
musicians in Los Angeles (hell, we’ve invested 30 years of
ceaseless work in promoting the illusion that we are the only
game in town, and we do not want to upset that little apple
cart just now,) or unless we just want to be petty-little-$#!†s
and stick it to YOU just because WE can, you Inconsequential
Peons. Knaves, Churls, Serfs, Poltroons, Jesters, Boors, Peasants,
Scalawags, Varlets, Rapscallions; the undeserving mass of the
whole lot of ne’er-do-wells that make up the teeming underbelly
of worms that is the bulk of the Los Angeles AFM membership.
Nobody who is Anybody-At-All in the entertainment industry loves
you even one tiny little iota, so crawl back under the fetid rock
from whence you came!

Not even one unimportant soul has been physically threatened
or intimidated by the RMA. Merely threatening our fellow musician’s
future careers has proven to be an effective means of control, at
least up until now.

For Christ-sakes, we are not Vlad the Impaler, out to hang all
the barbarians on a meat hook through a rib. We are more like
William the Conqueror, we chop the heads off a few Rebellious
Leaders, and display their punishments publically in the Overture
Wall of Shame, as a warning to other dissatisfied upstarts. This
usually sends the peasants running back down the mountainside
to hide out in their mud huts where they belong.

The non-union, outside deals that WE negotiate, do not undermine
our business model with our primary clients. So, you 99%, poverty
stricken musical share-croppers, take all the dark dates we decide
to allow you (or do not find out about,) and SHUT the Augmented-
Sex-Chord (F-E-C#-K) UP!

The bottom line is this: We have found a business model that works
for us. No one is stopping anyone else from doing the same. All we
are saying is that if you want to be a union musician, and do movie
dates in Los Angeles, then you have to charge the union scale that
the RMALA decides upon, without benefit of your sorry-∆$$ input.
Your puny equal-rights ideas would only screw up the business for
your superiors anyway. If you cannot charge our rates, then quit the
union, vote us out, or start doing something else for a living. The
unforgiving world of professional music is clearly not for you anyway.

The problem with the Kate & Leopold orchestra was that you tried to
circumvent OUR “A-thor-a-tay!”

The problem with the New Era orchestra was that it tried to be both
union and non-union at the same time. Who can blame the union for
defending itself. Most of you Pathetic Wannabes were allowed back
into the fold anyway, though why you would want to rejoin is beyond
me. The AFM doesn’t do anything for you. First, think about it; what
does it do for you? Then quit!

There is nothing stopping you from forming the non-union Southern
Seattle Symphony right here in Los Angeles. If you are really as good
as you think you are, then quit whining and just do it. We will still be
around to compete with you; you unqualified, wannabe, hacks. We
will compete head to head.

But you better wear a Kevlar vest, ’cause we’re gonna backstab you.
Count on it!

After all: it’s just good business.

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And now, having set the record straight for the benefit of my bon
amies down at the RMALA; and through my hard nosed tactics, for
which I will ingratiate myself to my superiors, and insure myself a
permanent chair in “The Orchestra,” I must at this time bow out of
my temporary writing assignment, and resume my position as Head
of the Dirty Tricks Department; a wholly owned subsidiary of the
RMALA. (A position for which I receive Principal Pay!)

May I say that it has been a real pleasure for me to communicate with
those musicians so very far beneath my grossly elevated station. Your
feral yearnings of an un-requited better life have been a breath of
fresh air to me. (I would not trade places with you unlucky bastards
for all the American money in China.) And now, I shall try with all my
might, not to get a nosebleed as I once again ascend to my lofty perch,
which you pathetic mud-hut dwellers can only aspire to.

A fond farewell from the self-appointed, and finally
fully truthful, spokesperson in defense of the RMALA:

Mr. Justin Goode Business, S.R.P. (Self-Righteous P****)

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III. COMMENTS

The comments below and elsewhere in this mailing represent the
typically uncensored views of the readers and not necessarily those
of the COMMITTEE. In the faith that freedom of expression allows
for the birth and ascendancy of the most beneficial ideas, all sentiments
expressed are welcome, subject to the bounds of good taste and
decorum. If you disagree with an opinion expressed by any contributor,
we encourage you to rebut it here.

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I apologize for making sense, but if Pete Anthony does not even
get a reprimand for doing non-union work (according to union
by-laws) then it’s open season for non-union film recording
for the rest of us! Hooray! Just try to bust a non-union film
session in LA now. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t
blacklist players who have nothing to lose and are considered
to be second rate by the powers in power. There’s no closing
pandoras box now, baby. I guess my handle should be….

Dr. Evil.

[EC: For his anti-AFM, anti-RMA conduct, Mr. Anthony was
re-elected to the Presidency of the RMALA by the spineless
sheep at the RMA meeting. So no, no price is paid,
no accountability. The moneyed interests don't have to
follow the rules.

Sort of like the banksters.]

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About the open Letter:

Any idea who these guys are? If they insist on anonymity, it
will weaken their message considerably.

These are these are the same “reality lessons” the Committee
has been discussing, revealing and promoting for years now.
Of course, RMA et al will try to twist the message into “giving
up hard-earned rights” but that’s about as relevant as buggy
whip makers insisting that cars continue to be pulled by horses
o that the jobs of the buggy whip makers and the blacksmiths
who make the horse shoes will not be endangered. It ignores
the massive reality that progress and evolution, for better or
for worse, is taking the industry in a different direction.

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Interesting - but who is willing to put their name(s) behind
this to give it some integrity and authority?

Committee emails have made all these points for years…

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Since there are no bounds in expressing our views may I convey that I
believe Mr. Justin Good was raised in a barn. Who is he anyway? How
insulting can one be and still try to deliver an intelligent message?
I am embarrassed for the Musicians at Local #47 if he, Mr. Good, is an
advocate for them. Wow!!!

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IV. CONCERTS AND EVENTS

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1/27/12

Azusa Pacific University Faculty Recital
Agnes Szekely Schwartz violin & Ralph Alberstrom piano
January 27, 2012, 8 pm
Munson Recital Hall, APU
[901 Alosta Avenue, Azusa, CA]

Brahms Sonata G major
J S Bach
Rozsavolgyi
Kodaly
Ligeti (viola)
Weiner
Bartok
Hubay

free entry

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1/27/12

“Love and Dissonance”:
A Mozart Birthday Celebration” this weekend at MAHMA!

There are still a few spots open on both Friday, January
27th at 7:30 pm (Mozart’s actual date of birth!), and
Saturday, January 28th at 7:00 pm, in the MAHMA Music Room.

The Malibu Coast String Quartet will present two beloved
works by the ever-admired birthday-boy: his K. 465 String
Quartet nicknamed the “Dissonance,” and a very charming
early work entitled, “Divertimento” in D Major, K. 136
(The Salzburg).

…and for an juicy bite of MAHMA, we will screen our always
popular silent short comedy, “What the Daisy Said” (1912)
scored for string quartet, and starring the beautiful Mary
Pickford as the lovely young protagonist seduced and
abandoned by a handsome (yet subversive!) gypsy fortune-
teller. Truly a tongue-in-cheek story of love and betrayal,
“What the Daisy Said,” is a wonderful moving icon of
American history, in which the hilarious dissonance
resolves to a satisfying consonance!

Maria and I will be joined by the esteemed American violinist,
Clayton Haslop, and our cherished, highly expressive, golden-
toned cellist, Paula Hochhalter. (It’s Paula’s birthday too on
January 27th…)!

Joining our inspirational guest artists will be MAHMA’s own
Maria Newman and myself (Scott Hosfeld). Back by popular
demand, Elaina Archer will enchant audiences with her
insightful and highly personal commentary on American
Film History.

Doors open at 7:00 pm on Friday evening, and 6:30 pm
on Saturday evening for a wine and cheese gathering.

When you experience the genius of Mozart, a comedic taste
of our American past, music so close you can “touch” it,
and combine that with enlightening commentary, what
better offerings can be found anywhere but in Malibu!

Below is the information you will need. Please RSVP by
phone (310) 589-0295, or email to make a reservation!

TIME:
Friday, January 27th, 2012 at 7:30 pm (7:00 pm wine and cheese)
Saturday, January 28th, 2012 at 7:00 pm (6:30 pm wine and cheese)

PLACE: Montgomery Arts House for Music and Architecture (MAHMA)
- Music Room (Indoors) - 6307 Busch Drive, Malibu 90265

COST: No charge for admission - Donations are greatly needed
and dearly appreciated!

PARKING: On Private Road. Please park on one side only. Guests
with special needs are invited to park within the inner courtyard.

PROGRAM:
Mozart: String Quartet, K. 465 the “Dissonance”
Mozart: Divertimento in D Major, K. 136 “The Salzburg”
…and a taste of MAHMA: Mary Pickford/Maria Newman:
“What the Daisy Said” (1912) for String Quartet and Vintage Silent Film
RSVP: scotthosfeld@verizon.net or call 310.589.0295

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1/28/12

PERCUSSIONIST JOSEPH D. MITCHELL III in Concert

El Camino College Music Department presents
Artist-in-Residence
Joseph D. Mitchell, III percussion
William Roper, tuba

Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 8 pm
16007 Crenshaw Blvd.
Torrance, CA

Campus Theater
Tickets $15
$2 General Parking
1-800-832-ARTS for more info

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1/28/12

DOCTOR WU

We will be appearing at Paladino’s on Saturday,
January 28th 2012, 8:00-9:00 PM, where we
will play one hour of your favorite Steely Dan
tunes! We want this to be a fun evening for
all, so please bring your friends along and
enjoy a great time with us.

Paladino’s
6101 Reseda Blvd
Tarzana, CA 91335
http://www.paladinosclub.com/

We look forward to seeing you there!
The Doctor Wu Band
http://www.doctorwuband.com/

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1/28/12

Los Angeles Pierce College Department of Music Presents
San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra
James Domine, Music Director
In Concert
Saturday Evening, January 28, 2012, 7:30 PM
Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza
Janet and Ray Scherr Forum Theatre

Hartman
Winter - A Concert Overture
(Inaugural Performance)

Rimsky-Korsakov
Sinfonietta on Russian Themes

Bizet
Carmen Suite

Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major
Tamara Gyulnazarova, violinist

For tickets and concert information call (818) 347-4807
Tickets available also at the Theatre Box Office

Visit our web site: www.sfvsymphony.com
This concert is sponsored in part by a grant from the
Los Angeles County Performing Arts Commission

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1/29/12

FROM KIM RICHMOND

Dear fellow L.A. Musicians,
It’s a new year and time to stretch out and listen
to some inventive jazz music. Please put this date
on your calendar: Sunday, January 29, 3 PM.

Details below.

WHAT: The Kim Richmond Ensemble, an improvisational
jazz ensemble (sextet) with charts by the leader.
WHERE: Contrapuntal Performance Hall,
655 N. Bundy Dr., Brentwood area, Los Angeles,
CA 90049
THIS IS ONE MILE NORTH OF SUNSET.
WHEN: Sunday, January 29, 3 PM
WHO: Kim Richmond, alto/soprano sax;
John Daversa, trumpet;
Joey Sellers, trombone;
Mahesh Balasooriya, piano;
Mike Valerio, bass;
Jamey Tate, drums
ADMISSION: $10 Tickets may be purchased at
BrownPaperTickets.com
(online) or at the door.
THE VENUE: Contrapuntal Hall is a large performance
room built on to the home of a patron of the arts living
in Brentwood. It is complete with a pipe organ,
Bosendorfer piano, balcomy and good acoustics for
music.

We hope to see you there. This promises to be an
inspiring and creative event.

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2/1/12

FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm

FEBRUARY 1, 2012
THE MALKIN - TRYBEK DUO
Iris Malkin - mezzo-soprano
Edward Trybek - guitar
http://www.myspace.com/themalkintrybekduo

RELAX DURING YOUR LUNCH HOUR WITH LIVE MUSIC
Light lunch to go prepared by ANGELA’S BISTRO
available for $6.
Please place your order before the concert by 12:10 pm;
your order will be delivered by 12:40 pm.

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LOCATION:
The Sanctuary at FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF GLENDALE
209 N. Louise St. (at Wilson)
Glendale CA 91206
818 242 2113
Map & venue info http://www.fbcglendale.net
More info email teena.frazier@fbcglendale.net

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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:
(every FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAY at 12:10-12:40 pm;
programs subject to change)

FEBRUARY 15, 2012
ADRIANA ZOPPO’S ERGO MUSICA
http://ergomusica.com/

MARCH 7, 2012
Clarinetist JAMES SULLIVAN & Friends
http://www.jsullivanclarinet.com/

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2/1/12

The Canoga Park Bowl and the
San Fernando Valley Symphony Orchestra
Present Concerts at the “Bowl” in the Royal Room
Wednesday Evenings at 8:00pm;
Friday Evenings at
8:30PM

Wednesday, February 1, at 8:00pm
The Blues Bandits
Perform the “Blues,” featuring
David Reo, guitar and vocals;
Jimi Dee, guitar and vocals;
Larry Muradian, bass guitar
and
Chuck Burkinshaw, drums

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UPCOMING CONCERTS in the same series:

Wednesday, February 8, at 8:00pm
Greatest Hits
“Original Compositions” by James Domine, featuring
James Domine, lead guitar and vocals
and Dan Carlson, rhythm guitar and vocals

Wednesday, February 15, at 8:00pm
The Symphomaniax
Perform ”Bach, Vivaldi, & Original Compositions &
Arrangements,” featuring
James Domine, guitar;
Ruth Bruegger, violin;
Glenn Grab, cello; and
Larry Muradian, bass

Friday, February 17, at 8:30pm
The Screaming Clams
Perform “Rock ‘n Roll” music of the
’60s & early ’70s, featuring
Jimi Dee, lead guitar;
Joel Domine, keys and guitar;
Larry Muradian, bass guitar;
Steve Hartman, drums
and Fern Z on vocals

Wednesday, February 22, at 8:00pm
The Blues Bandits
Encore Performance of the “Blues,”featuring
David Reo, guitar and vocals;
Jimi Dee, guitar and vocals;
Gary Herbig, saxophone;
Larry Muradian, bass guitar and
Chuck Burkinshaw, drums

Wednesday, February 29, at 8:00pm
Jennifer Bliman on French Horn
Performs “Music of Yesteryear,” featuring your
favorites from the ’20s to the ’40s.

Reminisce with such fun tunes as “Mairzy
Doats,” “Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive,”
“On a Slow Boat to China,” and more. Plus
costume changes, backflips, handstands,
and trivia with candy give-aways. A
VERY fun show not to be missed.

20122 Vanowen Street, Winnetka, CA
For information, call 818-347-4807
Free Admission/One Drink Minimum
Persons under 21 years of age not admitted

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UNTIL NEXT TIME,

THE COMMITTEE FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE LOCAL 47
Visit us at www.responsible47.com

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