1/13/16
I. ONCE AGAIN NO QUORUM FOR LOCAL 47 MEMBERSHIP MEETING
II. A MORE AND MORE COMMON SITUATION
III. THE SCL PRESENTS: DORICO & CUBASE PRO 9
IV. 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. ONCE AGAIN NO QUORUM FOR LOCAL 47 MEMBERSHIP MEETING
Besides the officers, there were only about 40 in attendance,
including board members.
Report on two resolutions presented concerning Salary and
COLA (Cost of Living Increase) , the text of which you can find online.
Parliamentarian explains what happens when there is no quorum.
– Open board meeting, members can comment and make revisions,
– Only board members can vote.
RESOLUTION I
SALARY REVIEW BOARD folks speak on Resolution I
2004 –
Pres $86,000
VP and Sec – $74,000
COLA added at that time.
COLA is usually around 2%
Three titled officers are entitled to COLA, regardless of the
financial state of the Local.
In 2014 President went from $84,000 in 2004 to Approx. $120,000
VP / Sec went from $74,000 in 2004 to $97,921
2015-16 officers forewent COLA.
New rules? No COLA if enough revenue is not made to cover it that year.
In last 6 years, if this rule was in place, only once would
the officers have qualified for the COLA.
Legislation committee member speaks.
Recommends NO vote.
CALL FOR QUESTIONS:
-Board Member suggests changing the word “Shall” to “May”,
– Member – Asks to table resolution till next meeting.
– Board member gets up and makes same motion,
not having paid attention.
-Member – This same thing was previously tabled last October.
Board members move to postpone resolution to next
membership meeting. it is seconded.
Board members and officers vote to postpose resolution to
April Meeting.
RESOLUTION II
Committee wants to strike first paragraph, where it’s stated
that Article V., Section 6 has not been used for many years…
Turns out it has been.
First “Whereas” and “Resolved” should be removed.
They are stricken.
3 more changes needed.
Union cannot make submissions on behalf of board and
committee members, should be removed.
Lots of adjustments needed.
Legislative committee comment:
Sees no issues with Resolution II
Vote takes place.
VP moves to adopt, 2nded.
No discussion
Resolution 2 passes.
You can read the original wording in the latest Overture.
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MEMBER – New Business
California Nurses Association to push a bill for single payer because of
the possible repeal of ACA.
Members will write a series of Schoolhouse Rock style songs
to push the single payer. Wants union to pay for the musicians
for the first few songs. Will submit budget at meeting the next day.
for first 3 videos.
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OFFICER REPORTS – President
2016 nego. reached
Lots listed, probably in Overture.
NEW AGREEMENTS
Transparent, LA Jewish Symphony, Jacaranda, Hollywood Chamber
Orchestra, ARTDONTSLEEP, wildUP, Echo Society, “Lost” concert.
RE-CAP
Building Campaign
Exploring Health Plan Merger
Organizing Program (musical Theater, mariachi’s, regional symphonies.
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS
Low Budget Recording
Intellectual Property
Financial Planning
Music Prep
Orchestration
2015 processed 14,512 contracts
$78,000,000 dollars collected
BUILDING
Renovations must be completed.
Showed rendering of new building.
PENSION
Terms are changing and it doesn’t look good.
Ray Hair will come and speak on it in March.
A new status, critical declining, has been created.
We’re in critical status.
Current recipients of pension cannot be changed.
Anyone who has not taken pension it could be a
big problem.
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VICE PRESIDENT REPORT
Name for awards program? – not sure yet.
Last APRIL Turner Classic Movies did a concert to
play with a silent movie. Musicians weren’t paid.
Calls were made. TCM made sure they were paid
without complaint.
Realtors were good. hung onto it for a year.
4 escrows. Closed on January 4th.
SECRETARY’S REPORT
Most recent review – 3rd quarter –
3,711,235 Income
2,251,728 outflow
478,661 dollars profit.
New Bylaws are Available.
Last month, 4296 views for Overture Online.
LA Fed of Labor annual MLK day breakfast for
Brian Peterson (American Nelson Mandela)
Next month is Black History Month
“Black Music, Black Work”
Pushes Radio Station
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Cristy Crowley pushes online musician list.
demo is on AFM Local 47 website. vin
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TO ANNUAL CLUB MEETING
Secretary Financial report:
Review:
218,156 dollars in revenue for first 9 month
273,246 in costs
In the red by 50 plus thousand.
Dec. 2nd $23,952,149 for the closing of the vine street property
-Over 12, million spent to buy the new property
-Jan 3rd – ended escrow.
-Jan 6th – $524,236 in loans paid.
As of today
$121,567.24 in Club account.
$38,000+ in saving
$10,275,982.24 in Building sale account.
VP Scheduling Building committee meeting.
Send your thoughts to VP about the building.
We’re paying $1 a month for six months to stay in building.
Trying to get plans finalized.
-$100 a square foot for union workers for renovations.
-Sound proofing will be done
-Studio is in the plans
-Rehearsal Rooms are included.
3 big band rooms.
Larger 967 sq foot room. Big Band and strings.
2 medium sized rooms
1 smaller room
3 practice rooms
New Building
3220 Winona Ave
Burbank, CA 91504
Hollywood Way near center staging and Burbank Airport.
Area will be called Golden Circle.
-Member – Airport and Studio – Cannot hear planes
inside the building?
no….
-Member – will it be expanded?
No, we have plenty of room.
is
-11,000 Sq foot area will be used for rehearsal rooms
– Behind that will be 4000 sq ft for an auditorium.
– At least one room will be tech ready.
– Goal for moving – June, 2017n
– Offices and Rehearsal room up and running first.
Want to have celebration for old building before we leave.
and celebration in new building.
120 anniversary of the Local is this year.
Member – Makes motion to create documentary about the building
of the new building – 2nded. Board will discussed.
Motion passed.
Old Business – NONE
New Business – NONE
Meeting adjourned at 9:18 pm
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II. A MORE AND MORE COMMON SITUATION
Below is a letter sent to an AFM Local’s membership department.
This, unfortunately, applies to more and more AFM Members:
Dear Local +++ Membership Dept:
It is after a great deal of thought, and with sadness, that I resign
my membership from AFM Local +++, effective December 31st, 2016.
I joined the AFM after college in 1983, at the age of 21, and have
been a freelance professional musician, musical director, arranger
and orchestrator for the past 34 years. I spent the first 20 years
in Los Angeles, as a member of Local 47, then moved to the +++
area and joined +++.
In 2014, for personal and family reasons, I relocated to Fort Wayne,
IN, and took a full-time job with Sweetwater Sound. I have now been
here for 2½ years, and it looks like it may well be a permanent move.
There is simply not enough Union work of any kind here to make it
practical for me to continue as an AFM member. I do still orchestrate
a fair amount for a variety of clients, and occasionally conduct concerts
on the road, but as you must know, almost all music prep work is now
done outside of Union contract. Employers are no longer persuadable
when it comes to this, particularly for live performance, which is
most of what I do.
Despite not having much Union work to speak of for the past few years,
I have remained a member because I believe in what the AFM stands
for and I appreciate the hard work and advocacy of all unions during
a very politically difficult time. Bit by bit over three decades I have
seen the power of unions chipped away. Sometimes it seems they
are all that stand between a civilized society, where workers are
respected, and an oligarchy.
If I wasn’t trying to put two kids through school and plan for my
own future, the $220 per year in dues would probably seem like a
worthwhile donation to this cause. But now I read in the Pension
Fund’s recent email that there is no guarantee that the Fund, in
which I have been fully vested for many years, will be paying
benefits to me 12 years from now. So I am taking all steps
possible to be financially responsible.
I wish everyone at the AFM, and all my fellow musicians,
a very professionally rewarding New Year, and I continue
to support the important contributions made by union
members. May the country come to its senses and once
again value the level of pride and accomplishment we
invest in our calling as artists.
FORMER AFM MEMBER
[EC: Until we become competitive again, our situation will
only deteriorate further.]
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III. THE SCL PRESENTS: DORICO & CUBASE PRO 9
With Steinberg Marketing Managers
DANIEL SPREADBURY & GREG ONDO
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17th, 2017 – 7:00PM
American Film Institute | Mark Goodson Theater
2021 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Please join us for an in-depth overview of Steinberg’s
professional applications for scoring, composition and
audio production: Dorico and Cubase Pro 9.
Dorico will be presented by Product Marketing Manager
Daniel Spreadbury, and Cubase Pro 9 will be presented
by Product Specialist Greg Ondo.
Find out about the latest innovations in Cubase Pro 9,
Steinberg’s most complete DAW ever, with its new lower
zone for improved workflow, sampler track, Frequency
EQ, MixConsole history, and many other new features.
Discover the orchestration and arranging capabilities of
Dorico, the next-generation music notation application,
with its unique workflow features, fast and flexible input
and editing, unrivaled graphical quality, and high-
performance architecture.
At the conclusion of the presentations there will be a
RAFFLE for one copy of Dorico, and one copy of Cubase
9 Pro (separate prizes)!
The Seminar will be followed by a reception in the AFI
foyer. Please note: as drinks will be served, all attendees
must be age 21 or over.
DANIEL SPREADBURY is the Product Marketing Manager
for Dorico. Daniel holds a master’s degree in music from
Oxford University, and has been working in the field of
music notation software for nearly 20 years. He leads the
design of Dorico, can be found at all hours of the day and
night answering questions from users
on the Dorico forum, and also writes a blog about the development
of Dorico, called Making Notes. Daniel is also a keen choral
director and singer, and runs an adult chamber choir and a
children’s choir.
GREG ONDO is the Field Marketing Manager for Steinberg North
America and has done over 2,000 seminars on music technology.
He has worked with many high profile clients including Microsoft,
NPR, Electronic Arts, Stevie Wonder, Peter Frampton, Teddy Riley
and Phil Ramone. Greg has worked on many projects and was
awarded a TEC award for his audio engineering on Eric Clapton’s
Crossroads Guitar Festival DVD. He has also done many online
tutorials with over 3,500,000 views on YouTube.
REGISTRATION REQUIRED: Click “ATTEND EVENT” below
and enter your first and last name (no spaces) in the
promotional code field for free SCL Member ticket.
FREE for SCL MEMBERS
$35 for NON-MEMBERS and GUESTS OF MEMBERS
$20 for Non-member college STUDENTS with valid student I.D.
American Film Institute | Mark Goodson Theater
2021 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
THE SOCIETY OF COMPOSERS & LYRICISTS (SCL) is the non-
profit premier organization for professional film, television,
video game, and musical theater composers and lyricists,
and those working in our industry such as orchestrators,
arrangers, music supervisors, music agents, music attorneys,
music editors, copyists, recording engineers, and related jobs,
with a distinguished 70-year history in the fine art of creating
music for visual media. Current SCL Members include the top
creative professionals whose experience and expertise is focused
on many of the creative, technological, legal, newsworthy and
pressing issues of the film music, television music, game music,
and musical theatre industry today.
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IV. EVENTS
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DEAN AND RICHARD
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.
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1/15/16
Dear All:
CAL STATE LA / OLYMPIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 3PM.
San Gabriel Mission Playhouse
320 S Mission Drive
San Gabriel, CA 91776.
This will be the first public performance of the orchestra
this season, The orchestra is made up of talented young
musicians who gain admittance to perform in the orchestra
through annual competitive auditions, and student of Cal
State University, Los Angeles. The featured soloists this
concert will be John Carpenter, pianist; and Chunyi Zhou,
violinist.
Works will include:
Leonora Overture No.2 by Beethoven
Symphony No.8 by Dvorak
Symphony Espagnole by Lalo
Totentanz by Liszt.
We will also be honoring Dr. Nikolaos Koutouratsas,
the late president of the Hennings-Fischer Foundation
which has given the orchestra so much help these
past years with this concert.
Please come witness the talents of these young musicians
as well as support classical music in the community. You
do not need a ticket to get in but if you do need a ticket
with the address sent to you, please feel free to reply and
tickets will be sent to the mailing address you specify.
Looking forward to seeing you there.
Sincerely,
Fung Ho
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1/21/16
SFV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Jan. 21, 2017 –
Tutor Family Center at Chaminade West Hills
Schumann: Manfred Overture
Mendelssohn: Symphony #3 in A minor (Scottish)
Belling: Music Madly Makes the World Go Round
Inaugural Performance
Cary Belling, violinist
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Other concerts in the series
Mar. 18, 2017 –
Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center
Tuttle: By Steam or By Dream Overture
Inaugural Performance
Prokofiev: Symphony #1 in D major (Classical)
Ben-Haim: Pastorale Variée for
Clarinet, Harp and Strings
Geoff Nudell, clarinetist
Beethoven: Romance for Violin and Orchestra
Ruth Bruegger, violinist
May 13, 2017 – Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center
Saint-Saens: Bacchanale from “Samson and Delilah”
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No. 2 in C major
Egizi: Orchestral Suite
“In Memoria di Mio Padre”
Inaugural Performance
Programs subject to change
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You can read all previous offerings at:
http://www.responsible47.com
UNTIL NEXT TIME,
THE COMMITTEE FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE LOCAL 47