By-Law Meeting: April 2017 Tuesday, April 11th, 2017 Vol. 77 No. 4 @ 1:00 pm Membership Meeting: Tuesday, May 9th, 2017 @ 1:00 pm The Life, Death and Revival of the See Pages 10-11 Local 10-208 of AFM FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OFFICERS – DELEGATES 2017-2019 Terryl Jares President Leo Murphy Vice-President Leo Murphy Terryl Jares B.J. Levy Secretary-Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert Bauchens Bob Lizik Update on Pension Fund Meeting Rich Daniels Janice MacDonald Rich Musical History Translates to New Kind of Shop Class Frank Donaldson Charles Schuchat For those of you who were not able to attend the AFM – EPF meeting on March Jeff Handley 8th, here is a brief summary of the meeting. Our AFM President, Ray Hair chaired a Back in February I visited the old Austin High School at 231 N not only by their teachers but also visiting professionals; mentors CONTRACT DEPARTMENT Pine in Chicago. This is the school where the legendary Austin High who can share first hand knowledge gained from their panel of Fund representatives which included Fund trustees (both union and employer), Leo Murphy – Vice-President Gang (of musicians) formed. Bud Freeman, the McPartland brothers professional experiences. Fund administrators, a Fund investment advisor, a Fund actuary and Fund lawyers. A Nancy Van Aacken are the names that easily come to my mind. Those musicians and While mouthpieces are the programs current product, the skills presentation was given which centered on assets (contributions and investments) and ASSISTANTS TO THE others in that group went on to work with many bands and groups that are learned can be applied to a wide variety of applications. liabilities (administrative costs and pension payments to beneficiaries). PRESIDENT - JURISDICTIONS Leo Murphy - Vice-President nationally. Now that school houses the Austin College and Career Knowledge and use of CNC is a highly marketable skill, extending The panel explained that in years past, contributions and investments far exceeded Supervisor - Entire jurisdiction Academy, which prepares students for college and has programs for beyond mouthpiece manufacturing. These skills are sought the administrative costs and pension payouts, so the fund had raised the multiplier on including theaters manufacturing. And it is that manufacturing program that brought by manufacturing firms throughout the country. The school is benefit payments. However, the economy took two large hits: the burst of the dot-com (Cell Phone: 773-569-8569) me to this school. empowering these students by building the students’ knowledge, bubble in 2001 and the financial crisis of 2008. Both of those events changed the Fund’s Dean Rolando I was invited by Rich Daniels (CFM Director) and joined skills and entrepreneurial spirit helping to prepare them for life Recordings, Transcriptions, investment returns drastically, putting the Fund into “critical” status. A rehabilitation plan Documentaries, Etc. by member Tim Bales to see a program that teaches design, after school. was put in place, which has helped. However, according to the panel, the Fund’s returns (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) manufacturing and marketing of trumpet mouthpieces. This is a different shop class than in my day, but it is designed The students in this program learn mathematics, design, Computer to give these students a marketable skill set and a positive sense of on its diversified investment assets haven’t made up for the increase in the Fund’s liabilities, DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE particularly given that the “baby boomer” generation has reached retirement age and begun ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR Numerical Control (CNC) and machine shop skills which they use self worth. I was very impressed to see how this school with its rich drawing benefits (much of which are based on the high multiplier that was put in place AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL in manufacturing. Then once the manufacturing is complete they musical history is still doing so much for its’ students. ORGANIZATIONS work on marketing skills. All along this path they are guided earlier). Now the Fund’s predicted liabilities are far exceeding its predicted assets. Terryl Jares Leo Murphy Currently, the Fund has been experiencing increased contributions from employers B.J. Levy and healthy investment returns. The panel explained that they hope this will be enough to DELEGATES TO CHICAGO keep the Fund out of “critical and declining” status. If not, according to the panel, changes FEDERATION OF LABOR AND may need to be made to the benefit structure, which is permitted under a legal framework INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL Rich Daniels Leo Murphy put in place in 2014 by the Kline-Miller Act. The determination of whether the Fund is Terryl Jares entering “critical and declining” status will be made after the fiscal year ends on March 31, DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE 2017 and the actuaries make their calculations. AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS After the presentation, many members brought forth their questions which were Rich Daniels B.J. Levy addressed by the panel. These included questions about the Fund’s investments, the Kline- Frank Donaldson Leo Murphy B.J. Levy Terryl Jares Miller Act and the path to the future. Everyone involved in the AFM – EPF is focused on Alternates: the long-term health of our Fund and keeping it sustainable long into the future. Larry Bowen Charles Schuchat EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO REHEARSAL SPACE AND EFFICIENT COMMUNICATION Funding for the NEA, the NEH and the CPB Terryl Jares It was announced in mid-March that the proposed budget of the Trump administration ASSISTANT EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO Rehearsal space is available at the CFM! The local’s rehearsal hall your membership dollars by communicating more efficiently and Leo Murphy eliminated funding of the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment is available for members in good standing to rent. The rate to rent effectively through email. Now more than ever we may need to for the Humanities and the Corporation from Public Broadcasting. 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8 Intermezzo April 2017 April 2017 Intermezzo 9 The Life, Death and Revival of the Banjo By Charles Sengstock

When we hear a banjo these days, it immediately , an excellent banjo player and soloist The song, with the banjo playing and the group conjures up music from the past: , 1920s pit in his own right, organized and led the Clicquot singing struck a nostalgic chord with the public. Shortly bands or minstrel shows, to name just a few. But why Club Eskimos, a banjo band that appeared on radio thereafter the London label released a recording of should that be? What happened to the banjo? Why between 1923 and 1933, sponsored by Clicquot Club, Primo Scala’s Banjo and Accordion Orchestra playing was the banjo, once a mainstay in the rhythm sections a brand of ginger ale. The popular radio group toured “Underneath the Arches” with singing by The Keynotes, of most orchestras, cast off only to reside largely in nationally, the players wearing Eskimo outfits during further reinforcing the banjo nostalgia wave. country-western, bluegrass, some folk and their appearances. Then in 1954 Paul Whiteman assembled a group novelty music? A number of New Orleans banjo players emerged called “The New Ambassador Orchestra” to record for A large part of the answer is technology. Before in the early jazz bands: George Guesnon, Emanuel Coral some of his number-one hits from the1920s, amplification and radio broadcasting, bands and Sales, Laurence Marrero, Johnny St. Cyr and Danny using the old arrangements. Among them were orchestras had to be heard on their own. And one way Barker, to mention a few. “Whispering,” “Japanese Sandman,” and “Wang-Wang the rhythm section could punch through the noise was Several banjo-playing bandleaders came on the Blues,” featuring a banjo, of course. to use a banjo. scene during this period like Harry Reser, Teddy The banjo’s emerging popularity encouraged The percussive effect of the banjo left no doubt Powell, Brooke Johns, and Chicagoans Ralph Williams, Chicago bandleader and trumpeter Lou Breese, who led Tivoli Theater Stage bandleader and about the rhythm or tempo being played. It wasn’t as Herbie Kay, Mark Fisher and Frankie Masters. The one of the top theater and jobbing bands in the area, to M.C. Frankie Masters ca. late 1920s. tuneful or melodious as a guitar, however; but that banjo was doing very well on the music scene, thank dust off his banjo playing skills and appear before the Note the banjo on table. He began wasn’t the problem at hand before amplification, radio you. band in novelty numbers. playing banjo with Eddie Richmond’s or electrical recording. These developments doomed Then the electrical recording system was Ralph Williams, a very popular bandleader in 1920s band at the Moulin Rouge (Photo the banjo, of course. introduced in the late 1920s. It revolutionized the Chicago theaters, played the trumpet but his second from author’s collection.) The banjo’s cutting effect, necessary in acoustic recording industry, significantly improving the quality instrument, like Lou Breese, was the banjo. In his later recording, had just the opposite effect in the new of overall sound over the tinny, shallow sounding years, long after his popularity had faded into the mists electrical recording process: it’s harsh, percussive acoustic records. of time, he continued to appear as a club act playing his sound had the recording needle jumping off It marked a sea change for the industry. But it banjo and singing. In fact, he was playing his banjo and the turntable. also, sadly, marked the beginning of the end for the leading the community singing at a Chicago area pizza Until then, the banjo had enjoyed a long run as banjo, except for its use in novelty groups and on parlor just before his death in 1960. a key instrument in the 1910s and 1920s bands and vaudeville stages. Most banjo players in popular music While banjo players were popular in pizza parlors in orchestras and on the vaudeville stage. And before had quickly switched to the more melodious and the fifties and sixties there are today groups of amateur that it was a mainstay in minstrel companies and other recording-friendly guitar. banjo players who reportedly gather at various venues- touring musical groups dating back to the 1850s. Banjoist Gene Sheldon worked comedy into his -usually taverns or restaurants_to play for the patrons Quite a few banjo players in bands and orchestras vaudeville act and was known for his pantomime weekly or monthly. One such place in the Chicago area stood out as exceptional players: Mike Pingitore with routines. He later went into the movies, and still later recently was the Lincoln Restaurant on Lincoln Ave. Paul Whiteman and Fred Van Eps, who later launched became a supporting actor in the popular “Zorro” TV Other banjo-player gatherings reportedly have been a lucrative recording career, were two. series. He continued to appear as a guest on TV shows occurring elsewhere in the country. A lot of virtuoso artists emerged on the in the 1950s and ‘60s, resurrecting his old pantomime It’s appropriate here to mention that the banjo never vaudeville stage in the 1920s like Eddie Peabody, vaudeville routines. lost its popularity in the Mummers’ banjo-led string Gene Sheldon and Roy Smeck. Peabody and Smeck Rubber-faced Freddy Morgan also combined bands that parade each New Years Day in Philadelphia. recorded extensively. comedy with his banjo playing and spent many years The parade bands, with in the first ranks, have Roy Smeck also played other stringed instruments, performing and mugging with the Spike Jones band been marching for over one hundred years in colorful was known as the “Wizard of the Strings” for his during the late 1940s and into the ‘50s. costumes playing their happy music. versatility, and was an inventor, teacher and wrote The banjo’s slumber in popular music, however, So appearances of the banjo with its continuing instruction books. was interrupted in 1948. MGM records released a nostalgic appeal demonstrate that the instrument has Popular banjo-playing leader Mark Van Eps recorded for the Edison National recording of Art Mooney’s orchestra playing the 1927 never completely died or lost favor and maybe never Fisher was known as the “Golden Phonograph Company as early as 1897 and was tune “I’m Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover,” which will. Voiced Director” because of his popular by the early 1900s for his ragtime recordings. featured Mike Pingitore on banjo. It quickly moved to Switching to guitar in the ‘30s, he remained active number one on the hit lists. outstanding singing voice. He began into the 1940s, and even made records with Benny his Chicago career in 1925 as singer Goodman, Red Norvo and others. and banjo player with the Fio Rito- Russo orchestra at the Edgewater Beach Hotel, replacing Nick Lucas. 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Michigan Ave., Apt. 709 1812 River Run Trail 57212 Werner, Lucien D. Northbrook, IL 60062 Chicago, IL 60616 Fort Wayne, IN 46825 17200 Rocky 847-858-1532 708-426-9450 260-348-4205 Belgrade, MT 59714 SAXOPHONE PIANO TIMPANI 406-600-8573 CELLO 56951 Galva, Karla E. 56950 Kuo, Wei-Ting 57215 Shi, Di 3110 N. Kolmar Ave. 1235 S. Prairie Ave., Apt 2605 195 N. Harbor Drive, Apt. 2907 57222 Wussow, Sarah J. Chicago, IL 60641 Chicago, IL 60605 Chicago, IL 60601 W5785 Newland Road 773-469-4062 310-893-4568 626-780-7539 Black Creek, WI 54106 VIOLIN VIOLA VIOLA 920-419-1524 PIANO 57181 Gemmill, Matthew D. 56344 Lano, Erin L. 57172 Smith, Jonathan D. 1318 E. Evergreen 3136 Griffin Ave. 8682 Magnolia Way 54530 Yeo, Richard W. Wheaton, IL 60187 Richmond, VA 23222 Dexter, MI 48130 6182 Crossland Blvd. 515-291-4794 713-208-0420 517-420-3734 Gurnee, IL 60031 PIANO FRENCH HORN PERCUSSION 847-650-7185 CELLO 56676 Grimm, Amanda R. 52100 Lutter, Pamela 57217 Tacke, Mathias J. 3016 W. 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Chicago Master Singers Attend an Orchestra Concert or Opera! Bruckner, Mendelssohn By Nancy Van Aacken Music of the Baroque Friday, April 28, 2017 at 7:30 pm We have many musicians performing throughout the area. Imogen Cooper Plays Mozart Support them by attending a performance or patronizing Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 7:00 pm Sunday, April 23, 2017 at 7:30 pm an establishment where they work. Divine Word Chapel North Shore Center for the Performing Arts 2001 Waukegan Road, Techny/Northbrook 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie 877-825-5267 www.chicagomastersingers.org Monday, April 24, 2017 at 7:30 pm for Music & Dance 205 E. Randolph, Chicago The Perfect American 312-551-1414 www.baroque.org Saturday, April 22, 2017 at 7:30 pm Unique Programs Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm New Philharmonic Orchestra Phil Passen - Hammered Dulcimer The Harris Theater for Music and Dance Encore! When That Great Ship Went Down: 205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm Music to Commemorate the Sinking 312-704-8414 Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 3:00 pm of the Titanic www.chicagooperatheater.org Shot and a GOAL! McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage Sunday, April 9, 2017 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra 425 Fawell Boulevard, Glen Ellyn Frank Pellico Bensonville Community Public Library 630-942-4000 per Chicago Blackhawks schedule 200 S. Church Road, Bensonville Paths of Passion www.AtTheMAC.org Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 3:00 pm United Center Songs from Carl Sandburgs’s Northbrook Symphony Orchestra 1901 W. Madison St., Chicago “American Songbag” Pick-Staiger Concert Hall 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston The Soul of Imperial Russia Sunday, April 30, 2017 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM 312-957-0000 Sunday, April 9, 2017 at 4:00 pm Ela Area Public Library www.chicagophilharmonic.org Glenbrook North High School 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich Sheely Center for the Performing Arts www.philpassen.com Elgin Symphony Orchestra 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook 847-272-0755 The Dr. Dave Experience Rachmaninoff & Brahms www.northbrooksymphony.org Bach Week Festival 50’s & 60’s Rock & Roll Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 7:30 pm Park Ridge Civic Orchestra Dueling Divas Sunday, April 2, 2017, 2:00 – 3:00 PM Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 2:30 pm Addison Library Exploring The Variant With Bill McGlaughlin Friday, April 28th, 2017 7:30 PM Hemmens Cultural Center 4 Friendship Plaza, Addison 45 Symphony Way, Elgin Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 2:00 pm Nichols Concert Hall Please register for this event 847-888-4000 Music Institute of Chicago North Shore Center for the Performing Arts www.addisonlibrary.org www.elginsymphony.org 9501 Skokie Blvd., Skokie 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston 847-692-7726 Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra Virtuoso Soloists www.parkridgecivicorchestra.org American Perspectives Friday, May 5th, 2017 Rockford Symphony Orchestra Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm Pre-concert lecture at 6:30 I Hear a Symphony Motown’s Greatest & Concert at 7:30 PM Lincoln-Way Central Performing Arts Center Hits! Nichols Concert Hall 1800 E. Lincoln Highway, New Lenox Music Institute of Chicago 708-481-7774 Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 7:30 pm 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston Attend the Ballet www.ipomusic.org Strauss’ Last, Mahler’s First Lake Forest Symphony Orchestra Festival Finale Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 7:30 pm Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra Fratres Sunday, May 7th, 2017 Coronado Performing Arts Center Pre-concert lecture at 1:30 Global Visionaries Saturday, April 1, 2017 at 8:00 pm 314 N. Main Street, Rockford & Concert at 2:30 PM April 26 - May 7, 2017 at 8:00 pm Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 2:00 pm 815-965-0049 Anderson Chapel, North Park University www.rockfordsymphony.com Auditorium Theater James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts 5149 N. Spaulding Ave., Chicago 530 E. Congress Parkway, Chicago 19351 W. Washington Street, Grayslake The Symphony of Oak Park & River Forest 800-838-3006 312-386-8905 847-543-2300 www.bachweek.org www.joffrey.org www.lakeforestsymphony.org Central European Delights www.chicagophilharmonic.org Sunday, April 30, 2017 at 4:00 pm Dominican University Performing Arts Center 7900 West Division Street, River Forest 708-488-5000 www.symphonyoprf.com

If you have future engagements that you would like listed in this column, please send them to Nancy VanAacken at [email protected]. Listings will be included provided there is a Union contract on file.

14 Intermezzo April 2017 April 2017 Intermezzo 15 Go Cubbies! Gary Pressy per Chicago Cubs schedule Wrigley Field 1060 W. Addison St., Chicago where Lee began what became a 38-year teaching career as Enjoy a Musical Lee Bradley Burswold a tenured music professor at North Park College, now North 1933-2017 Park University. Lee and Barbara welcomed to their family Disney’s Aladdin daughters Carol, in 1964, and Anne, in 1968. Carol and Anne April 11th – June 2nd, 2017 Lee Bradley Burswold, formerly of Park Ridge, Illinois, remember their father as a loving, devoted and steadfastly 630-530-8300 was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 16, 1933 to George supportive parent, and grandparent of Anne’s three children. and Evalon (Berger) Burswold, and died on February 21, 2017 Throughout his teaching career, Lee also worked actively as a Drury Lane Theatre of complications of pulmonary fibrosis. During his childhood free-lance pianist throughout Chicagoland. If you attended a Saturday Night Fever years, Lee developed a love for the piano. With his parents’ Chicago wedding reception or banquet any time between 1962 January 19th – April 9th, 2017 Jazz on Sundays! encouragement, he turned that love into a life-long vocation and 2010, you more than likely were delighted by his piano Chicago April 2 – Bernard Scavella... Sax and gift to all who heard him play. Lee earned Bachelor of stylings. An accomplished composer, Lee wrote and arranged April 20h – June 18th, 2017 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM Music and Master of Music degrees from Northwestern hundreds of pieces of piano, choral, instrumental and bell choir 630-530-8300 April 9 – Bill McFarland & University in Evanston, Illinois, where he met his future wife, music; beginning and intermediate school instrumental music; The Chicago Horns... Trombone Barbara Mahr, a cellist and fellow orchestral and jazz creations. His music is now performed and Marriott Lincolnshire Theater 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM music student. Lee continued his appreciated around the world, and it brings his family great Mamma Mia! April 16 – Jarrad Harris… Sax education at the Eastman School comfort to know that through his music God is glorified. Lee is February 8th – April 16th, 2017 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM of Music in Rochester, New York, survived by his wife, Barbara; daughter Carol (Zachary) Dylan; She Loves Me April 23 – Bobbi Wilsyn… Vocals where he earned his PhD. On June Anne (Lendol) Calder; grandchildren Laura, Caroline and Erik April 26th – June 18th, 2017 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM 16, 1962, after a whirlwind five-year Bergren; and dear family friend Patricia Conrad. To quote 847-634-0200 April 30 – Joan Collaso 5th Sunday Jazz courtship, Lee and Barbara were a poem, “Requiem,” written by Patricia at Lee’s death, Session... Vocals for Young Audiences married by Barbara’s father, Pastor “We praise the Lord, but quietly-our song is in a minor key.” 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM Arthur Mahr, at Grace Lutheran Madagascar – A Musical Adventure By Carol Dylan and Anne Calder James Wagner Hyde Park Jazz Society Church in Lincoln Park, Chicago. February 25th – April 15th, 2017 Room 43 The couple settled in Chicago 847-634-0200 1043 E. 43rd Street, Chicago www.HydeParkJazzSociety.com Paramount Theatre Jesus Christ Superstar April 19th – May 28th, 2017 630-896-6666

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