5\/27\/17
\nI. PENSION COMMENT
\nII. AFM & SAG-AFTRA Fund
\nIII. EVENTS<\/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
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I. PENSION COMMENT<\/p>\n
FYI:
\nWhen our AFM Pension took its stock market dive in 2008,
\nYou recall our L.A. \/ NY H&W Fund had similar financial woes.
\nA person in the H&W loop gave me the following info.<\/p>\n
(This regards only H&W management, but we can imagine
\na similar band of irresponsible folks who \u201cmight\u201d have
\nbeen ignoring the location\/vulnerability of our Pension
\nmoney during the stock market crash.<\/p>\n
For instance, if those Pension Trustees had been paying
\nattention to the crisis, they could have switched us to safe
\nBlue Chip stocks before the worst of it.)<\/p>\n
H&W Trustees at the time of the 2008 crash:<\/p>\n
Lewis, Vince, exec at Disney, exec at Entertainment
\nPartners, Gary Hughes (\u201cManagement trustee,\u201d) one
\nmore un-named person.<\/p>\n
Six total Trustees: 3 from the Union side and 3 from
\nthe music business executive side.
\nTrustees are volunteers. They serve as a community service.
\nTrustees are not officially “Trustees” until they meet
\ntogether to make decisions.<\/p>\n
No Union allows membership to contact Trustees directly.<\/p>\n
Very sad.
\nAgain, this is not a list of AFM Pension Trustees.
\nThen again, maybe some of them were\u2026<\/p>\n
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II. AFM & SAG-AFTRA Fund in the Spotlight at ASCAP Expo<\/p>\n
The little-known AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property Rights
\nDistribution Fund pays royalties even to oft-neglected session musicians
\nand backup singers.<\/p>\n
Stevie Wonder was the headliner \u2014 and closing act \u2014 of the ASCAP
\nI Create Music Expo that concluded this weekend, but musicians and
\nsingers will be interested to know that an obscure fund, jointly run
\nby the American Federation of Musicians and performers\u2019 union
\nSAG-AFTRA, also had a moment in the sun at the annual conference
\nfor songwriters, composers, artists and producers.<\/p>\n
If those two unions seem like an odd pairing, they aren\u2019t: since its
\n2012 founding by way of merger, SAG-AFTRA, like AFTRA
\nbefore it, has represented recording artists \u2014 singers \u2014 as
\nwell as actors and others, such as broadcasters.<\/p>\n
The joint fund, the AFM & SAG-AFTRA Intellectual Property
\nRights Distribution Fund, distributed about $60 million in royalties
\nin 2016 and thus will be welcome as anything but odd by those
\nwho receive checks from it \u2014 a variety of singers and musicians,
\nincluding such non-featured performers as backup singers and
\nsession musicians, who otherwise might not receive music
\nroyalties at all.<\/p>\n
Although that total is far less than the approximately $1 billion
\nin residuals that SAG-AFTRA distributes annually, and is also
\nless than the $90 million to $100 million in audiovisual AFM
\nresiduals that are disbursed each year (which are administered
\nby yet another organization, the Film Musicians Secondary
\nMarkets Fund), the checks can be significant, ranging up to
\n$1 million in some cases, said fund executive director Dennis
\nDreith.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do for non-featured performers what SoundExchange
\nand AARC do for featured performers,\u201d explained Dreith,
\nreferencing two other music royalty organizations. He spoke
\nto The Hollywood Reporter after conducting a seminar Friday
\nfor about 100 people at the Expo.<\/p>\n
One recipient of a payment from the fund was so unaccustomed
\nto receiving royalties that she rang up Dreith and asked if she
\nwas really allowed to cash the check. He assured her that she was.<\/p>\n
Citing the case of a former Motown session bass player who he said
\ndied impoverished after helping churn out hit after hit (\u201cYou Can’t
\nHurry Love\u201d by The Supremes, \u201cMy Girl\u201d by The Temptations,
\nand dozens more), Dreith added that the fund helps ensure that
\n\u201cthere won\u2019t be another James Jamerson,\u201d at least in the economic sense.<\/p>\n
Where the Money Comes From<\/p>\n
Unlike Expo organizer ASCAP, which collects and pays royalties to
\nsongwriters and composers, the joint union fund is for performers.
\nIt was established in 1998, which may give a clue as to its initial
\nscope: the royalties are collected from U.S. digital platforms, but
\nnot from U.S. terrestrial (conventional) radio, as to which there
\nis no provision in law for performance royalties. The Fair Play
\nFair Pay Act, which the fund and unions vigorously support,
\nwould change that and require AM and FM stations to pay
\nsuch royalties, too.<\/p>\n
Those for-now digital royalties are paid to non-featured vocalists and
\nnon-featured musicians regardless of their union membership or
\naffiliations. The fund collects foreign performance royalties for
\nU.S. non-featured performers as well, but only for members of
\nAFM and SAG-AFTRA.<\/p>\n
That, anyway, is what the sound recording division of the fund
\ndoes. Two more recent arms, the symphonic royalties and
\naudiovisual divisions, represent evolutions beyond digital-only.
\nThe first focuses on royalties for featured and non-featured
\nperformers in symphonic sound recordings, including archival
\nrecordings and radio broadcasts licensed for use on cable,
\nsatellite and digital media. And the audiovisual division
\ncollects royalties \u2014 again, for featured and non-featured
\nsingers and musicians \u2014 from foreign territories for films
\nand television programs containing U.S. performers, which
\nhave been broadcast on Spanish and German television,
\nand motion pictures containing U.S. performers, which have
\nbeen exhibited in cinemas in Spain.<\/p>\n
There is no word on whether that limited geographic portfolio
\nmight expand.<\/p>\n
Like residuals, which inspired this reporter to prepare a
\ncolored chart that Backstage likened to \u201ca periodic table of
\nelements on mushrooms,\u201d music royalties are complex: a
\nflowchart in the ninth edition of Harold Vogel\u2019s definitive
\nEntertainment Industry Economics, which features almost
\ntwo-dozen circles, squares and other shapes and a similar
\ncomplement of connecting lines, looks like an oil refinery
\ndiagram \u2014 except that the latter is easier to understand.
\nIndeed, turning bauxite into aluminum is apparently simpler
\nthan the way money flows in the music business. But in one
\nsmall corner, at least, the AFM & SAG-AFTRA fund has it covered.<\/p>\n
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III. EVENTS<\/p>\n
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DEAN AND RICHARD
\nare now at Culver City Elks<\/p>\n
the first \u2028Friday of \u2028every month.
\n7:30pm-10:30pm,
\n11160 Washington Pl.
\nCulver City, 90232
\n310-839-8891
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\nLA 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.<\/p>\n
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5\/28 – 6\/2\/17
\nThe BBB\u00a0featuring\u00a0Bernie Dresel<\/p>\n
Mark your\u00a0calendars and\/or get tickets now:
\nplaying\u00a0TWO\u00a0daytime shows\u00a0near LAX\u00a0(Los Angeles Airport)
\nthis will be the only notice (earlier than usual) for these\u00a0rare
\n\u201cwest side\u201d shows<\/p>\n
1. \u00a0LA Jazz Institute Big Band Spectacular
\nSUNDAY May 28\u00a0from\u00a04:30-5:30\u00a0at\u00a0Westin LAX Grand\u00a0Ballroom
\nCall\u00a0562-200-5477\u00a0for $20 tickets or get them at the door.
\nhttp:\/\/lajazzinstitute.org<\/p>\n
2. \u00a0LA Audio Show
\nFRIDAY June 2\u00a0from\u00a05:30-7:00\u00a0at\u00a0Sheraton Gateway LAX
\npoolside deck Single day tickets for the\u00a010am-6pm\u00a0LA
\nAudio Show and the 5:30 concert are available for $25
\nat\u00a0http:\/\/www.laaudioshow.com\/register<\/p>\n
The deck area offers a variety of amenities from cabanas
\nto lounge seating and standing room where drinks,
\nappetizers and snacks can also be purchased. For those
\nwhose preference is indoors, the windows of the
\nCostero Bar, overlooking the pool, will be opened.
\nAnd, for attendees, and others, who have worked up
\nan appetite for more solid fare, the Brasserie restaurant,
\nalso with windows to the pool, will be serving.<\/p>\n
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5\/27\/17
\nCULVER CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
\nMusic Director\/Conductor Arlene Cardenes
\nSaturday May 27th, 5:00PM
\nA Culver City Centennial Celebration
\nThis performance will feature a new
\nfanfare by Cary Belling.
\nAlso
\nAndres Cardenes, Violinist and COnductor
\nTurning Point School Auditorium\u20288780 National Blvd.\u00a0\u2028Culver City, CA 90232
\nClick here for ticket information<\/p>\n
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6\/7\/17<\/p>\n
FREE ADMISSION GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS!<\/p>\n
PRESS RELEASE\/ Wed JUNE 7, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm at the Free Admission
\nGLENDALE NOON CONCERTS\/ Richard Strauss Violin Sonata:<\/p>\n
Violinist Jacqueline Suzuki
\nPianist Brendan White.<\/p>\n
Thank you!
\nJacqueline Suzuki
\nCurator, Glendale Noon Concerts
\n818-249-5108<\/p>\n
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6\/10\/17<\/p>\n
EDENDALE UP CLOSE CONCERTS
\nin Echo Park, at the Edendale Branch Library (LAPL).<\/p>\n
Fiato String Quartet) – Saturday JUNE 10, 2017 (Noon-1:00pm) performance<\/p>\n
Complete info, including upcoming concerts through JAN 2018,
\ncan be found at http:\/\/edendaleupclose.blogspot.com
\nThank you!
\nJacqueline Suzuki
\nCurator, Edendale Up Close Concerts
\n818-249-5108<\/p>\n
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6\/13\/17<\/p>\n
CalStateLA Symphony Orchestra\/Olympia Youth Orchestra<\/p>\n
Dear Friends & Colleagues:<\/p>\n
You are cordially invited to attend the admission FREE concert given by the CalStateLA Symphony Orchestra\/Olympia Youth Orchestra on Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 3PM at the historic San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, 320 S Mission Drive, San Gabriel, CA 91776.<\/p>\n
The orchestra is composed of young and talented students ages 12 through college age performing standard repertoire for orchestra from Baroque to Contemporary periods. Students win their positions in the orchestra through our annual competitive audition. The guest soloist this concert will be the renowned violinist, Timothy Fain, who was the recording artist on the sound track of the movie \u201cThe Black Swan\u201d. He will be performing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor accompanied by the orchestra.<\/p>\n
Other works will include Wagner Tannhauser Overture, 2nd movement of the Dvorak New World Symphony, Mozart Adagio and Rondo for violin and orchestra(performed by our concertmaster, Jeongwon Claire An), and the 1st movement of the Tchaikovsky Symphony No.4.<\/p>\n
Looking forward to seeing every there..<\/p>\n
Sincerely,
\nFung Ho<\/p>\n
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6\/25\/17<\/p>\n
Dear Doctor Wu Fans,<\/p>\n
We will be appearing at the\u00a0Santa Monica Summer SOULstice Festival on Sunday, June 25th 2017 from 4:30 to 6:30 PM, where we will play two sets of your favorite Steely Dan tunes.\u00a0 Please bring your friends along\u00a0and enjoy a great time with us!<\/p>\n
Edgemar Courtyard
\n2440 Main Street
\nSanta Monica, CA 90405
\n4:30 – 6:30 PM<\/p>\n
We hope to see you there!<\/p>\n
The Doctor Wu Band
\nhttp:\/\/www.doctorwuband.com\/
\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/doctorwuband<\/p>\n
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7\/11-14\/17<\/p>\n
SANTA BARBARA JAZZ WORKSHOP<\/p>\n
The LA Jazz Society is proud to partner with Kim Richmond
\nand Kimberly Ford in presenting the Santa Barbara Jazz
\nWorkshop,\u00a0July 11-14, from Tuesday afternoon to Friday night.<\/p>\n
A faculty of Jazz professionals teach instrumental\/vocal master
\nclasses, improvisation, Jazz Listening (How to listen, and who to
\nlisten to.), modern Jazz combo and Big Band playing with concerts
\neach late afternoon (open to the public) where advanced students sit in<\/p>\n
For more information, visit\u00a0www.santabarbarajazzcamp.com.<\/p>\n
Presented by Kim Richmond and Kimberly Ford
\nat the Marjorie Luke Theater and SOHO Jazz Club.<\/p>\n
You can read all previous offerings at:
\nhttp:\/\/www.responsible47.com<\/p>\n
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