The Committee For A More Responsible Local 47

12/27/16

I.  MEMBER COMMENT – PENSION
II. MEMBER COMMENT – PRIVACY?
III. ASMAC ‘FIRST WEDNESDAYS’ – DYNAMIC MUSIC PARTNERS
IV. MEMBER COMMENTS

V. 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 COMMENT – PENSION

You’ve probably received the info from the pension fund bemoaning
its ongoing “critical status”. Having been in that status since 2009,
apparently the “fiduciaries” see nothing on the horizon to alter
that status. I think you know that we have a stock market knocking
on the door 20K. So this makes one wonder just what have our
vaunted fiduciaries been doing?

I think we all realize the ever decreasing numbers of membership
across the Federation, more people coming on to collect benefits
than there are existing members to fund, etc. Yet shouldn’t there
be some kind of investment plan that could mitigate against the
negatives, especially in light of markets trending upward over
‘a period of years? We’re all for caution and prudent management…
but good grief!

My question is: Do we, as the rank and file in the Federation,
have any ability/recourse to call the “fiduciaries” (those in
charge of investments) on the carpet for failing to perform?
Curious if you might have any information on this. It seems
ludicrous that the Fund will be in critical status “ad infinitum”.

Any thoughts and info would be welcome.

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I see others are outraged. So frustrating the attitude we get.
Is there not some other form of recourse, like through some
oversight group, rather than just letters to union officials?
There should be some watchdog org. that monitors what
comes down to fiscal malfeasance.
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II. MEMBER COMMENT – PRIVACY?

At the “inaugural” meeting of 2017, the membership was informed
of some statistics on the number of persons accessing the Overture
On-Line.  X amount of “hits” in the USA and from X number
of countries abroad.

I sent a colleague the following:

My dues statement came and included my Membership #
and “web ID”.  It occurred to me that the local has the ability
to track who is reading the Overture and who is not.

This was the response:

We’ve known for a long time that as long as Marc Sazer
is the webmaster/info guru, that he has carte blanche
access to members’ vital personal data. Who reads the
overture online is minor to me compared with the power
to see the work history, income, employers, etc. of
members. The webmaster can also see the members’
online website viewing history. What someone views
– be it CBAs, wage scales, meeting minutes – tells a
great deal about the viewer. And when that info is in
the hands of someone who controls work… it doesn’t
take a genius.

Name Withheld

Sent from my iPad
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III. ASMAC ‘FIRST WEDNESDAYS’ – DYNAMIC MUSIC PARTNERS

February 1, 2017
7pm Check-in • 7:30pm Program

ASMAC presents:
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Dynamic Music Partners

Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis
and Michael McCuistion

RESERVATIONS RECOMMENDED
Emmy Award-winning composers Kristopher Carter,
Lolita Ritmanis and Michael McCuistion collectively
known as Dynamic Music Partners, will be the featured
guests at February’s event. The team will demonstrate
and discuss their work in animation music along with
the history of Dynamic Music Partners and their
remarkable collaboration. They will also discuss the
landscape of acquiring projects, how the business
is evolving as well as sharing the experience and
knowledge they have gained over the years.

The team is currently scoring the hit animated series
Marvel’s Avengers Assemble. Michael, Lolita and
Kristopher have created hundreds of hours of music
for a variety of different genres, including TV series,
independent films, video games and live performance
events. They have collectively earned twenty-eight
Emmy Award nominations and nine Annie Award
nominations as composers for Batman: The Brave
And The Bold, Justice League, Teen Titans, Batman
Beyond, The Zeta Project and The New Batman
Superman Adventures.

They each received the Emmy Award in Music Direction
and Composition for their music for Batman Beyond.
Their score to the feature film “Yesterday Was A Lie”
won a Gold Medal at the Park City Film Music Festival.

Additionally, original concert works and suites of their
scores have been performed in festivals and special
events — from New York’s Lincoln Center to The
Hollywood Bowl their music has received critical acclaim.
This remarkable and very contemporary trio of composers
and performers is an example of creative collaboration,
business savvy, and artistic expression of the highest,
most original level.

For more information on their credits, please visit IMDb links:
Lolita Ritmanis http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728667/
Kristopher Carter http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0141766/
Michael McCuistion http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0567090/

Join us for a very informative and entertaining evening!

Check-In: 7 pm – Program: 7:30 pm

$10 Admission
SCL Members – $5
FREE for ASMAC & Local 47 members

Musicians Union Local 47
817 Vine Street
Hollywood, CA 90038

For more information on ASMAC and upcoming events:
(818) 994-4661 www.asmac.org

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IV. MEMBER COMMENTS

time to drain the RMA swamp

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Hello Editor,

Well, now that Local 47 has gone from …”barely making
the bills” to “money in the bank”…sure why not spend
some of that money to “record our re-transplant” to Burbank?

However, can you see the proposed “music award ceremony”
changing to the “Professional Musician’s of Burbank”?

President Acosta was asked about this at the onset of the
referendum to sell Vine Street.  He said, “then we will
have to change our name”…Really?

Sent from my iPad

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V. 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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1/28/17

MALIBU FRIENDS OF MUSIC at MAHMA
KAIROS MUSICAL SOIREES

A MOZART BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION!
Saturday ~ January 28th
7:30 in the evening.

For Reservations Click Here:
www.malibufriendsofmusic.org

Featuring the:
MALIBU COAST STRING TRIO
Maria Newman, violinist
Scott Hosfeld, violist
Paula Hochhalter, cellist

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Divertimento for String Trio in Eb
KV 563

Ludwig van Beethoven:
String Trio in G Major
Opus 9, No. 1

…and a few surprises…

Performed in the beautiful MUSIC ROOM at the
Montgomery Arts House
For Music & Architecture
Eric Lloyd Wright, architect

Donation $25.00 per Guest
18 and under admitted donation-free

Artists, dates, times, and programming
subject to change without  prior notice

To make a reservation
please visit our website at
www.malibufriendsofmusic.org

Or call the
MAHMA Reservation Line:
(310) 589-0295

Join us at MAHMA
February 11, 2017 and
February 14, 2017
for our romantic
Valentine’s Events:
Champagne & Chocolate

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1/28/17

Art in Society Presents: IdyTalks – Audrey Carver
Thursday – January 26, 2017
5:30pm
Creekstone Inn, 54950 Pine Crest Ave, Idyllwild, CA 92549, USA

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2/1/17

On Wednesday FEBRUARY 1, 2017 at 12:10-12:40 pm
the Free Admission Glendale Noon Concerts will feature
oboist Catherine Del Russo
violinist Kirstin Fife
and
cellist Christopher Ahn performing works by
Quantz, Haydn and Fife
at the Sanctuary of Glendale City Church,

610 E. California Ave. (at Isabel St), Glendale, CA 91206.

For more information, email [email protected]
or call (818) 244- 7241.

Oboist Catherine Del Russo received her Bachelor of Music Degree and Performance Certificate at the Eastman School of Music where she studied with Robert Sprenkle, and her Masters of Music Degree from Ohio University where she studied with John Mack in Cleveland. Since then, Del Russo has performed around the world, beginning with the Eastman Wind Ensemble to the Far East as Principal Oboe. After that, she performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Filharmonic de Caracas and Orquesta Municipal in Caracas, Venezuela. Del Russo has played with many orchestras since moving to Los Angeles, including the Santa Barbara Symphony, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, the Los Angeles Mozart Orchestra, and the Honolulu Symphony. Currently, she is Principal Oboe of Orchestra Santa Monica, Downey Symphony, and Symphony in the Glen, and is Solo English horn for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Asia America Symphony. Del Russo has enjoyed playing on many films, commercials and television shows. She has been a promoter of chamber music and new music in Los Angeles. Her oboe, viola and piano trio won the Consortium of Southern California Chamber Music Presenters. Del Russo is Professor of Oboe at Westmont College and is on the Applied Music
faculty at Occidental College.

Violinist Kirstin Fife has made many recordings for motion pictures, television, and phonograph, including her own solo recordings, “Czechmate” and “Pieces of My Heart”. Both of these are available at Amazon and iTunes. She is a graduate of the music schools at USC and Yale University. Also a composer, Kirstin is working on several projects, including a 22 piece song cycle for piano and violin.
Website: http://www.pottsandfife.com/welcome.html

A native of Los Angeles, Christopher Ahn has appeared in solo and chamber music performances across the U.S. as well as abroad in Europe, Australia, South Korea, South Africa, Canada and Central America. Recent solo performances include recitals at the Brand Library and Art Center, UCLA, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and Santa Monica College, and concerto performances with orchestras in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia. He has also performed chamber music on the Chapman University, Dilijan, L’Ermitage Foundation, Music Guild, and Trinity Lutheran concert series, and has performed numerous times for live radio broadcasts on the Sundays Live recital series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Chris has enjoyed frequent collaborations in recent years with the Lineage Dance Company, most recently presenting a performance of the Bach Cello Suites with dance choreography on the Brand Library and Art Center Dance performance series. He has also worked closely with several Los Angeles based composers, performing new works for solo cello and chamber ensemble on several local series such as the Blackbird Music Project in Orange County, the contemporary music collective ‘Synchromy,’ and Classical Revolution LA.
Chris pursued his studies at UCLA, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Michigan, where his principal teachers included Antonio Lysy, Richard Aaron, Stephen Geber, and Colin Carr. He has also studied with Hans Jorgen Jensen, Andrew Shulman, Peter Rejto, John Walz, and Jenny Goss. Chris currently resides in Los Angeles, where he enjoys a broad spectrum of performance and teaching opportunities.
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2/16/17

THE ORCHESTRE SURREAL
February 16th 8:00
El Portal Theater

The Orchestre surreal will be performing and filming
our up coming concert at the historic
El Portal Theater in North Hollywood.
This is a special event.
If you are receiving this email then you are on our special list.
We want to recognize your loyalty and connection
with the Orchestre and offer you 1/2 price tickets.

For 1/2 price tix
Use the Code Word
ELVIS.
Here is the link
https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/961811/prm/ELVIS

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3/18/16
SFV SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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
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Other concerts in the series

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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3/26/17

LOS ANGELES SYMPHONIC WINDS
Subscription Concert 3 – Calabasas High School
Stars of the Los Angeles Symphonic Winds
Revel in the artistry of some of the LA Winds’ most
acclaimed performers.
-Geoff Nudell and Parker Gaims (now a member of the US Marine Corps Band) play Felix Mendelssohn’s virtuosic Two Concert Pieces. Also on the program will be two works by the LA Winds’ resident composer,
– Charles Fernandez

• Sunday March 26, 2017

• 2:30 p.m.  Performing Arts Education Centers.

• Calabasas High School

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http://www.responsible47.com
UNTIL NEXT TIME,

THE COMMITTEE FOR A MORE RESPONSIBLE LOCAL 47

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