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I. ONCE AGAIN NO QUORUM FOR LOCAL 47 MEMBERSHIP MEETING
\nII. A MORE AND MORE COMMON SITUATION
\nIII. THE SCL PRESENTS: DORICO & CUBASE PRO 9\u2028IV. EVENTS
\n <\/p>\n
…Absolutely guaranteed anonymity – Former Musician’s Union officer
\n…The one voice of reason in a sea of insanity – Nashville ‘first call’\u2028scoring musician
\n…Allows us to speak our minds without fear of reprisal – L.A. Symphonic musician
\n…Reporting issues the Musicians Union doesn’t dare to mention – National touring musician<\/p>\n
\n===================================<\/p>\n
I. ONCE AGAIN NO QUORUM FOR LOCAL 47 MEMBERSHIP MEETING<\/p>\n
Besides the officers, there were only about 40 in attendance,
\nincluding board members.<\/p>\n
Report on two resolutions presented concerning Salary and
\nCOLA (Cost of Living Increase) , the text of which you can find online.<\/p>\n
Parliamentarian explains what happens when there is no quorum.
\n– Open board meeting, members can comment and make revisions,
\n– Only board members can vote.<\/p>\n
RESOLUTION I<\/p>\n
SALARY REVIEW BOARD folks speak on Resolution I
\n2004 –
\nPres $86,000
\nVP and Sec – $74,000
\nCOLA added at that time.
\nCOLA is usually around 2%
\nThree titled officers are entitled to COLA, regardless of the<\/p>\n
financial state of the Local.<\/p>\n
In 2014 President went from $84,000 in 2004 to Approx. $120,000
\nVP \/ Sec went from $74,000 in 2004 to $97,921<\/p>\n
2015-16 officers forewent COLA.<\/p>\n
New rules? No COLA if enough revenue is not made to cover it that year.<\/p>\n
In last 6 years, if this rule was in place, only once would
\nthe officers have qualified for the COLA.<\/p>\n
Legislation committee member speaks.
\nRecommends NO vote.<\/p>\n
CALL FOR QUESTIONS:
\n-Board Member suggests changing the word “Shall” to “May”,<\/p>\n
– Member – Asks to table resolution till next meeting.<\/p>\n
– Board member gets up and makes same motion,
\nnot having paid attention.<\/p>\n
-Member – This same thing was previously tabled last October.<\/p>\n
Board members move to postpone resolution to next
\nmembership meeting. it is seconded.<\/p>\n
Board members and officers vote to postpose resolution to
\nApril Meeting.<\/p>\n
RESOLUTION II<\/p>\n
Committee wants to strike first paragraph, where it’s stated
\nthat Article V., Section 6 has not been used for many years…
\nTurns out it has been.<\/p>\n
First “Whereas” and “Resolved” should be removed.
\nThey are stricken.<\/p>\n
3 more changes needed.
\nUnion cannot make submissions on behalf of board and
\ncommittee members, should be removed.<\/p>\n
Lots of adjustments needed.<\/p>\n
Legislative committee comment:
\nSees no issues with Resolution II<\/p>\n
Vote takes place.<\/p>\n
VP moves to adopt, 2nded.
\nNo discussion<\/p>\n
Resolution 2 passes.<\/p>\n
You can read the original wording in the latest Overture.<\/p>\n
————-<\/p>\n
MEMBER – New Business
\nCalifornia Nurses Association to push a bill for single payer because of
\nthe possible repeal of ACA.<\/p>\n
Members will write a series of Schoolhouse Rock style songs
\nto push the single payer. Wants union to pay for the musicians
\nfor the first few songs. Will submit budget at meeting the next day.
\nfor first 3 videos.<\/p>\n
————-<\/p>\n
OFFICER REPORTS – President<\/p>\n
2016 nego. reached
\nLots listed, probably in Overture.<\/p>\n
NEW AGREEMENTS
\nTransparent, LA Jewish Symphony, Jacaranda, Hollywood Chamber
\nOrchestra, ARTDONTSLEEP, wildUP, Echo Society, “Lost” concert.<\/p>\n
RE-CAP
\nBuilding Campaign
\nExploring Health Plan Merger
\nOrganizing Program (musical Theater, mariachi’s, regional symphonies.<\/p>\n
WORKSHOPS\/SEMINARS
\nLow Budget Recording
\nIntellectual Property
\nFinancial Planning
\nMusic Prep
\nOrchestration<\/p>\n
2015 processed 14,512 contracts
\n$78,000,000 dollars collected<\/p>\n
BUILDING
\nRenovations must be completed.<\/p>\n
Showed rendering of new building.<\/p>\n
PENSION
\nTerms are changing and it doesn’t look good.
\nRay Hair will come and speak on it in March.
\nA new status, critical declining, has been created.
\nWe’re in critical status.<\/p>\n
Current recipients of pension cannot be changed.
\nAnyone who has not taken pension it could be a
\nbig problem.<\/p>\n
——————–<\/p>\n
VICE PRESIDENT REPORT
\nName for awards program? – not sure yet.<\/p>\n
Last APRIL Turner Classic Movies did a concert to
\nplay with a silent movie. Musicians weren’t paid.
\nCalls were made. TCM made sure they were paid
\nwithout complaint.<\/p>\n
Realtors were good. hung onto it for a year.
\n4 escrows. Closed on January 4th.<\/p>\n
SECRETARY’S REPORT<\/p>\n
Most recent review – 3rd quarter –
\n3,711,235 Income
\n2,251,728 outflow
\n478,661 dollars profit.<\/p>\n
New Bylaws are Available.<\/p>\n
Last month, 4296 views for Overture Online.<\/p>\n
LA Fed of Labor annual MLK day breakfast for
\nBrian Peterson (American Nelson Mandela)
\nNext month is Black History Month
\n“Black Music, Black Work”<\/p>\n
Pushes Radio Station<\/p>\n
————–<\/p>\n
Cristy Crowley pushes online musician list.
\ndemo is on AFM Local 47 website. vin<\/p>\n
————–<\/p>\n
TO ANNUAL CLUB MEETING<\/p>\n
Secretary Financial report:
\nReview:
\n218,156 dollars in revenue for first 9 month
\n273,246 in costs
\nIn the red by 50 plus thousand.<\/p>\n
Dec. 2nd $23,952,149 for the closing of the vine street property
\n-Over 12, million spent to buy the new property
\n-Jan 3rd – ended escrow.
\n-Jan 6th – $524,236 in loans paid.<\/p>\n
As of today
\n$121,567.24 in Club account.
\n$38,000+ in saving
\n$10,275,982.24 in Building sale account.<\/p>\n
VP Scheduling Building committee meeting.<\/p>\n
Send your thoughts to VP about the building.
\nWe’re paying $1 a month for six months to stay in building.<\/p>\n
Trying to get plans finalized.
\n-$100 a square foot for union workers for renovations.
\n-Sound proofing will be done
\n-Studio is in the plans
\n-Rehearsal Rooms are included.
\n3 big band rooms.
\nLarger 967 sq foot room. Big Band and strings.
\n2 medium sized rooms
\n1 smaller room
\n3 practice rooms<\/p>\n
New Building
\n3220 Winona Ave
\nBurbank, CA 91504
\nHollywood Way near center staging and Burbank Airport.
\nArea will be called Golden Circle.<\/p>\n
-Member – Airport and Studio – Cannot hear planes
\ninside the building?
\nno….
\n-Member – will it be expanded?
\nNo, we have plenty of room.
\nis
\n-11,000 Sq foot area will be used for rehearsal rooms
\n– Behind that will be 4000 sq ft for an auditorium.
\n– At least one room will be tech ready.
\n– Goal for moving – June, 2017n
\n– Offices and Rehearsal room up and running first.<\/p>\n
Want to have celebration for old building before we leave.
\nand celebration in new building.<\/p>\n
120 anniversary of the Local is this year.<\/p>\n
Member – Makes motion to create documentary about the building
\nof the new building – 2nded. Board will discussed.
\nMotion passed.<\/p>\n
Old Business – NONE
\nNew Business – NONE<\/p>\n
Meeting adjourned at 9:18 pm<\/p>\n
=====================================<\/p>\n
II. A MORE AND MORE COMMON SITUATION<\/p>\n
Below is a letter sent to an AFM Local’s membership department.
\nThis, unfortunately, applies to more and more AFM Members:<\/p>\n
Dear Local +++ Membership Dept:<\/p>\n
It is after a great deal of thought, and with sadness, that I resign
\nmy membership from AFM Local +++, effective December 31st, 2016.<\/p>\n
I joined the AFM after college in 1983, at the age of 21, and have
\nbeen a freelance professional musician, musical director, arranger
\nand orchestrator for the past 34 years. I spent the first 20 years
\nin Los Angeles, as a member of Local 47, then moved to the +++
\narea and joined +++.<\/p>\n
In 2014, for personal and family reasons, I relocated to Fort Wayne,
\nIN, and took a full-time job with Sweetwater Sound. I have now been
\nhere for 2\u00bd years, and it looks like it may well be a permanent move.<\/p>\n
There is simply not enough Union work of any kind here to make it
\npractical for me to continue as an AFM member. I do still orchestrate
\na fair amount for a variety of clients, and occasionally conduct concerts
\non the road, but as you must know, almost all music prep work is now
\ndone outside of Union contract. Employers are no longer persuadable
\nwhen it comes to this, particularly for live performance, which is
\nmost of what I do.<\/p>\n
Despite not having much Union work to speak of for the past few years,
\nI have remained a member because I believe in what the AFM stands
\nfor and I appreciate the hard work and advocacy of all unions during
\na very politically difficult time. Bit by bit over three decades I have
\nseen the power of unions chipped away. Sometimes it seems they
\nare all that stand between a civilized society, where workers are
\nrespected, and an oligarchy.<\/p>\n
If I wasn\u2019t trying to put two kids through school and plan for my
\nown future, the $220 per year in dues would probably seem like a
\nworthwhile donation to this cause. But now I read in the Pension
\nFund\u2019s recent email that there is no guarantee that the Fund, in
\nwhich I have been fully vested for many years, will be paying
\nbenefits to me 12 years from now. So I am taking all steps
\npossible to be financially responsible.<\/p>\n
I wish everyone at the AFM, and all my fellow musicians,
\na very professionally rewarding New Year, and I continue
\nto support the important contributions made by union
\nmembers. May the country come to its senses and once
\nagain value the level of pride and accomplishment we
\ninvest in our calling as artists.
\nFORMER AFM MEMBER<\/p>\n
[EC: Until we become competitive again, our situation will
\nonly deteriorate further.]<\/p>\n
==========================<\/p>\n
III. THE SCL PRESENTS: DORICO & CUBASE PRO 9
\nWith Steinberg Marketing Managers
\nDANIEL SPREADBURY & GREG ONDO<\/p>\n
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17th, 2017 – 7:00PM
\nAmerican Film Institute | Mark Goodson Theater
\n2021 N Western Ave
\nLos Angeles, CA 90027<\/p>\n
Please join us for an in-depth overview of Steinberg’s
\nprofessional applications for scoring, composition and
\naudio production: Dorico and Cubase Pro 9.<\/p>\n
Dorico will be presented by Product Marketing Manager
\nDaniel Spreadbury, and Cubase Pro 9 will be presented
\nby Product Specialist Greg Ondo.<\/p>\n
Find out about the latest innovations in Cubase Pro 9,
\nSteinberg’s most complete DAW ever, with its new lower
\nzone for improved workflow, sampler track, Frequency
\nEQ, MixConsole history, and many other new features.<\/p>\n
Discover the orchestration and arranging capabilities of
\nDorico, the next-generation music notation application,
\nwith its unique workflow features, fast and flexible input
\nand editing, unrivaled graphical quality, and high-
\nperformance architecture.<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the presentations there will be a
\nRAFFLE for one copy of Dorico, and one copy of Cubase
\n9 Pro (separate prizes)!<\/p>\n
The Seminar will be followed by a reception in the AFI
\nfoyer. Please note: as drinks will be served, all attendees
\nmust be age 21 or over.<\/p>\n
DANIEL SPREADBURY is the Product Marketing Manager
\nfor Dorico. Daniel holds a master’s degree in music from
\nOxford University, and has been working in the field of
\nmusic notation software for nearly 20 years. He leads the
\ndesign of Dorico, can be found at all hours of the day and
\nnight answering questions from users
\non the Dorico forum, and also writes a blog about the development
\nof Dorico, called Making Notes. Daniel is also a keen choral
\ndirector and singer, and runs an adult chamber choir and a
\nchildren’s choir.<\/p>\n
GREG ONDO is the Field Marketing Manager for Steinberg North
\nAmerica and has done over 2,000 seminars on music technology.
\nHe has worked with many high profile clients including Microsoft,
\nNPR, Electronic Arts, Stevie Wonder, Peter Frampton, Teddy Riley
\nand Phil Ramone.\u00a0 Greg has worked on many projects and was
\nawarded a TEC award for his audio engineering on Eric Clapton’s
\nCrossroads Guitar Festival DVD.\u00a0 He has also done many online
\ntutorials with over 3,500,000 views on YouTube.<\/p>\n
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Click “ATTEND EVENT” below\u2028and enter your first and last name (no spaces) in the
\npromotional code field for free SCL Member ticket.
\nFREE for SCL MEMBERS\u2028$35 for NON-MEMBERS and GUESTS OF MEMBERS\u2028$20 for Non-member college STUDENTS with valid student I.D.
\nAmerican Film Institute | Mark Goodson Theater
\n2021 N Western Ave
\nLos Angeles, CA 90027<\/p>\n
THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) \u00a0is the non-
\nprofit premier organization for professional film, television,
\nvideo game, and musical theater composers and lyricists,
\nand those working in our industry such as orchestrators,
\narrangers, music supervisors, music agents, music attorneys,
\nmusic editors, copyists, recording engineers, and related jobs,
\nwith a distinguished 70-year history in the fine art of creating
\nmusic for visual media. Current SCL Members include the top
\ncreative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused
\non many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and
\npressing issues of the film music, television music, game music,
\nand musical theatre industry today.<\/p>\n
==========================<\/p>\n
IV. EVENTS\u2028\u2028———————————–
\nDEAN AND RICHARD\u2028\u2028\u2028DEAN AND RICHARD
\nare now at Culver City Elks the first \u2028Friday of \u2028every month.
\n7:30pm-10:30pm,
\n11160 Washington Pl.
\nCulver City, 90232
\n310-839-8891\u2028\u2028————————————-\u2028\u2028LA WINDS JAZZ KATS 584
\nNO COVER, NO MINIMUM.
\nEvery 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at
\nViva Cantina
\n7:30-10:00.
\n900 Riverside Drive, \u2028Burbank.<\/p>\n
Free parking across the street at Pickwick Bowl.
\nCome hear your favorite charts played the way
\nthey \u2028should \u2028be. \u2028\u2028We are in the back room called
\nthe Trailside Room. \u2028\u2028\u2028Come on down.<\/p>\n
Guaranteed to swing.
\n——————————–<\/p>\n
1\/15\/16<\/p>\n
Dear All:<\/p>\n
CAL STATE LA \/ OLYMPIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA<\/p>\n
Sunday,\u00a0\u00a0January 15, 2017 at 3PM.
\nSan\u00a0Gabriel Mission Playhouse
\n320 S Mission Drive
\nSan Gabriel, CA 91776.<\/p>\n
This will be the first public performance of the orchestra
\nthis season, The orchestra is made up of talented young
\nmusicians who gain\u00a0admittance to perform in the orchestra
\nthrough annual competitive auditions, and student of Cal
\nState University, Los Angeles. The featured soloists this
\nconcert will be John Carpenter, pianist; and\u00a0Chunyi Zhou,
\nviolinist.<\/p>\n
Works will include:
\nLeonora Overture No.2 by Beethoven
\nSymphony No.8 by Dvorak
\nSymphony Espagnole by Lalo
\nTotentanz by Liszt.<\/p>\n
We will also be\u00a0honoring Dr. Nikolaos Koutouratsas,
\nthe late president of the Hennings-Fischer Foundation
\nwhich has given the orchestra so much\u00a0help these
\npast years with this concert.<\/p>\n
Please come witness the talents of these young musicians
\nas well as\u00a0\u00a0support classical music in the community. You
\ndo not need a ticket to\u00a0\u00a0get in but if you do need a ticket
\nwith the address sent to you,\u00a0please feel free to reply and
\ntickets will be sent to the mailing address you specify.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to seeing you there.<\/p>\n
Sincerely,
\nFung Ho<\/p>\n
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\n1\/21\/16
\nSFV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
\nJan. 21, 2017 \u2013
\nTutor Family Center at Chaminade West Hills
\nSchumann: Manfred Overture
\nMendelssohn: Symphony #3 in A minor (Scottish)
\nBelling: Music Madly Makes the World Go Round
\nInaugural Performance
\nCary Belling, violinist
\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
\nOther concerts in the series
\nMar. 18, 2017 \u2013
\nAgoura Hills\/Calabasas Community Center
\nTuttle: By Steam or By Dream Overture
\nInaugural Performance
\nProkofiev: Symphony #1 in D major (Classical)
\nBen-Haim: Pastorale Vari\u00e9e for
\nClarinet, Harp and Strings
\nGeoff Nudell, clarinetist
\nBeethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra
\nRuth Bruegger, violinist<\/p>\n
May 13, 2017 \u2013 Agoura Hills\/Calabasas Community Center\u2028\u2028Saint-Saens: Bacchanale from \u201cSamson and Delilah\u201d
\nTchaikovsky:\u00a0Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major
\nEgizi: Orchestral Suite \u2028\u201cIn Memoria di Mio Padre”
\nInaugural Performance<\/p>\n
Programs subject to change
\n——————————————
\nYou can read all previous offerings at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.responsible47.com
\nUNTIL NEXT TIME,<\/p>\n
THE COMMITTEE FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE LOCAL 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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