9/22/17
I. PROFLIGATE SPENDING
I. RMA NIGHT ORIGINS
III. TAX BENEFIT CONCERT
IV, MEMBER COMMENT
V. TOMORROW! SCOTT HEALY ASMAC MASTERCLASS
VI. EVENTS
…Absolutely guaranteed anonymity – Former Musician’s Union officer
…The one voice of reason in a sea of insanity – Nashville ‘first call’
scoring musician
…Allows us to speak our minds without fear of reprisal – L.A. Symphonic musician
…Reporting issues the Musicians Union doesn’t dare to mention – National touring musician
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I. MEMBER COMMENTARY: Profligate Spending
At the 9/19 Local 47 Executive Board meeting the subject
of the Local’s purchasing of tickets for RMA Night was discussed.
The choice came down to buying 10 tickets for $150 each or to
purchase a “corporate table” for $3,500.
Bill Reichenbach (who identified himself as a Board member of
the RMA ) said, “Keep in mind the RMA is a players conference
with national contracts…supporting the RMA is not too much
of a sacrifice…they do so much.”.
Then Andy Malloy, said, “People will be there…
we need to show our support…when we look at payments
to attorney’s and how much the various entities bring in.”
Bill continued his pitch by telling the Board, “If you want
a presence as a group, you need a table.”
In the end, the Board (in a rare non-unanimous vote) approved
the expenditure of $3,500 ($2,000 over the 10 ticket price).
Reichenbach was asked to abstain.
Member Observer
[EC: So given the choice of a $1500 table for 10, or a
Corp Table for $3,400, our board naturally decided to
take the more expensive route, pissing away $2,000
more than they need to of all our dues money for
the elites.
This after funding a downtown concert with ALL our
dues to get a tax break that will benefit ONLY the elites.
It’s simply insult to injury, with the members being
played for fools and fleeced again and again. How much
will the members (YOU) take before you actually grow
a pair and speak up and stop allowing the Local to treat
with such disrespect???
This is no different than trump’s officials continuing to
use private jets, using our taxes for their whims. If
that pisses you off, this should really send you over
the edge.
BTB, Andy Malloy is a former RMA Board member,
and the Former president of the Professional
Musicians Guild, the illegal group created by
RMA members to steal the video game work
from the AFM because Tom Lee was President.
Members, for goodness sake speak up! This crowd
is stealing your dues, handing to the RMA and
you’re saying nothing!!
KEEP READING]
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II. RMA NIGHT ORIGINS
Do you know where RMA night came from?
Back when Bernie Fleischer was president of the Local
starting in 1985, the RMA was trying to solidify their
monopoly of recording. Bernie, however, didn’t kiss
the RMA ring and kept working for the benefit of all
members. They couldn’t have that, could they…
During the next Local 47 Election i1990, Fleischer
and his wife were defamed by a newsletter from
campaign consultant Behar of Pacific Media Group.
The Consultant was hired by those highest up in the
RMA at the time.
In that newsletter, Finale, Fleischer was accused
of, among others things,stealing money, falsifying
records, drug use in office,
Bernie sued 6 people for defamation of character
and libeling he and his wife.
Fleischer also sued the AFM’s then-president Max
Herman and 22 other officers in 1991 for allegedly
libeling him and his wife during local 47’s 1990
election campaign
(Daily Variety, June 17, 1991).
Fleischer reached a settlement of $100,000 with
Herman, Recording Musicians Assn. former
president DENNIS DREITH, RMA board members
JOANN KANE and NEIL STUBENHAUS, former
campaign consultant Shed Behar, and former union health
fund manager Maria Cruz.
Did these people pay the decision themselves? OF COURSE
NOT! The RMA created the RMA night to pay off the decision
against their most important leaders at the time. Used the rank
and file RMA members money to bail them out. What? Sandy,
Stubenhaus or Dreith’s July checks couldn’t take the hit?
And RMA night continues to this day.
So if you’re going to the RMA night tomorrow, reflect on the
kind of conduct on the part of the RMA’s former (and some
present) leaders that led to it’s creation.
Doubt our word on this? Want to say WE LIE????
Read the Variety Article yourself:
http://tinyurl.com/y8eb7s65
THE COMMITTEE
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III. DID YOU GO TO THE DOWNTOWN BENEFIT CONCERT
FEATURING RICKY MINOR?
The concert was to generate support for the tax credit legislation.
Who would benefit from the Tax Credit? Only the haves trying
to get some work back.
Who paid for it? Local 47. So once again the RMA elites use
the dues of ALL members (i.e. you and me) to help ONLY
the elites.
Think the RMA isn’t still running the Local? Think again.
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IV. MEMBER COMMENTS
RE: RMA NIGHT
First the push a statement by Drieth
Now they have Local 47 pushing there RMA Night agenda.
Get additional 47 musicians who will never get a chance to earn
a living in recording to have them show support for a bill they
will never have an opportunity to effect their professional future..
RMALA will do anything to have it appear there are more then
80 people who even earn enough to show this will in affect
benefit hundreds of musicians lives in Los Angeles. When in
reality those select at the party are the only ones who could
afford to go.
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V. TOMORROW! SCOTT HEALY ASMAC MASTERCLASS
If you are a composer or arranger, you definitely should be there!
This Master Class is by Scott Healy, pianist/composer. (www.bluedogmusic.com)
This stuff is VERY deep, very inspirational. The music and effects
he gets when orchestrating for his 14-piece jazz ensemble is completely
“wonderous.”
How does he do that? Come and find out!
Saturday, September 23, 2017 – 11am-2pm
“Writing Outside the Box Techniques for Expanding Jazz Composition”
@ The Evergreen Stage
4403 West Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank CA 91505
$25 Members & Students / $40 Non-Members
The Sept. 23rd Master Class will explore some of the ways a composer
can extend the harmonic, rhythmic, orchestrational and emotional
language of large ensemble jazz writing. Topics will include linear
harmony, plastic meter, “off the grid” writing, controlled and notated
improvisation, spatial and box notation, layered counterpoint, and
techniques borrowed from 20th century classical composition. Musical
examples will include excerpts and full works from studio and live
recordings, with accompanying scores and analysis.
Los Angeles-based Scott Healy is a multitasking, Grammy-nominated
composer, recording artist, producer, bandleader, pianist and
multi-keyboardist. He is best-known for playing in the house band
for Conan O’Brien: first on Late Night in NYC, then moving out
to LA in 2009 for The Tonight Show, and now Conan on TBS,
where he holds down the keyboard chair in the Basic Cable
Band. His 2013 release, Hudson City Suite, by the 10-piece
Scott Healy Ensemble garnered worldwide praise, stellar online
and print reviews, national jazz radio airplay, and a 2014
Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition.
www.scotthealy.com
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VI. EVENTS
DEAN AND RICHARD
are now at Culver City Elks the first
Friday of
every month.
7:30pm-10:30pm,
11160 Washington Pl.
Culver City, 90232
310-839-8891
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LA WINDS JAZZ KATS 584
NO COVER, NO MINIMUM.
Every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at
Viva Cantina
7:30-10:00.
900 Riverside Drive,
Burbank.
Free parking across the street at Pickwick Bowl.
Come hear your favorite charts played the way
they
should
be.
We are in the back room called
the Trailside Room.
Come on down.
Guaranteed to swing.
http://www.responsible47.com
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9/24/17
LOS ANGELES SYMPHONIC WINDS
will be featured on the LACMA radio
broadcast, live at 6 pm!
For more information see the LA Winds
website at www.lawinds.org
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9/24/17
THE PHIL NORMAN TENTET
at the Soka Jazz Festival
Soka Performing Art Center
1 University Drive
Aliso Viejo, CA. 92656
Sunday September 24th @ 3:00pm
www.soka.edu/pac/tickets/
17-18jazzfestival.aspx
PLAYING THE MUSIC OF JAZZ GREATS
Reminiscent of the West Coast jazz sounds
of the 50’s & 60’s
Stan Kenton, George Shearing, Miles Davis
Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck,
Benny Golson, Dizzy
and other jazz giants
Performed by some of Los Angeles
finest musicians
(see below)
MUSICIANS
Christian Jacob – piano
Kevin Axt – bass
Dick Weller – drums
Brad Dutz – percussion/vibes
Larry Koonse- guitar
Carl Saunders- trumpet/flugel
Ron Stout – trumpet/flugel
Scott Whitfield – trombone
Rusty Higgins – alto & soprano sax/flute
Roger Neumann- baritone sax/bass clarinet
Phil Norman – tenor sax/clarinet
ARRANGERS
Bob Florence
Bill Holman
Christian Jacob
Roger Neumann
Kim Richmond
Jackson Stock
Francisco Torres
Scott Whitfield
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10/1/17
Los Angeles Symphonic Winds
Oktoberfest Concert/Beer Tasting!
Sunday October 1, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Calabasas High School Performing Arts Education Center
22855 Mulholland Hwy, Calabasas, CA 91302
An exhilarating afternoon of works by Strauss,
Lehar and Orff plus a post concert Beer
Tasting Event.
Repertoire for Oktoberfest concert:
Bach/Schaeffer Passacaglia in c minor
Orff Carmina Burana excerpts
Strauss Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Henze Don Quixote
Mendelssohn Overture for Winds
Howard The Little German Band
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10/4/17
FREE GLENDALE NOON CONCERTS
Violinist JACQUELINE SUZUKI
Pianist CHARLES FIERRO
will perform the Lekeu Violin Sonata &
the Debussy- Heifetz “Beau Soir”.
Thank you!
Artist Bios:
JACQUELINE SUZUKI, violin, is a longtime
member of the Long Beach and Santa Barbara
Symphonies. A native of San Francisco, she
began her earliest chamber music studies on
scholarship at the San Francisco Conservatory.
She has performance degrees from the
Mannes College of Music (BM), where she studied
with William Kroll, and the California Institute
of the Arts (MFA).
As a Los Angeles freelancer, she has performed
with many ensembles and in many genres, from r
ock, jazz, Latin and Arabic, to playing in the pit
for the Bolshoi Ballet and onstage with the Three
Tenors. She has recorded with diverse artists:
Snoop Dogg, Neil Sedaka, Leonard Cohen, Whitney
Houston, Bocelli, Lalo Schifrin, McCoy Tyner,
Placido Domingo and many others, and appears
on recordings by the Long Beach, Santa Barbara
and Pacific Symphonies. She has spent summers
at the Peter Britt, Oregon Coast, Carmel Bach
and Cabrillo Festivals and has performed in a
string quartet “in residence” on a raft trip
down the Green River in Utah. Tours have
taken her many times to Japan, Taiwan,
Mexico, Canada, Europe, the Middle East
and throughout the US. She initiated and
curates the Free Admission Glendale Noon
Concerts http://glendalenoonconcerts.blogspot.com
and also the
Edendale Up Close Concerts: http://edendaleupclose.blogspot.com
One of Southern California’s leading pianists,
Charles Fierro has made concert tours for the
National Endowment for the Arts and the California
Arts Council and has given more than 25 concerto
performances with orchestras. He has appeared
twice at the National Gallery of Art and the
Dumbarton Oaks Foundation in Washington,
D.C. In 1976 he played the American
Bicentennial Recital at the Palace of Fontainebleau
in France on the personal invitation of the
legendary musician, Nadia Boulanger. He
has interpreted the music of Beethoven,
Schumann, Schoenberg and Liszt at the Ojai
Festivals and performed more than a dozen
times at the prestigious Monday Evening
Concerts in Los Angeles, presenting the
American premieres of important new works.
UNTIL NEXT TIME, THE COMMITTEE FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE LOCAL 47