Page 1 IntermezzoMembership Meeting March 2008 Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 Vol. 68 No. 3 1:00 pm By-Law Meeting Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 1:00 pm Chicago: A Music City in Hiding See Page 3 Photo by Tom Beranek Page 2 Local 10-208 of AFM AFL-CIO CHICAGO FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OFFICERS – DELEGATES 2008-2011 Gary Matts President Terryl Jares Vice-President Spencer Aloisio Secretary-Treasurer BOARD OF DIRECTORS Association of Professional Orchestra Leaders Robert Bauchens Rich Daniels Host Its Frank Donaldson B.J. Levy Bob Lizik Janice MacDonald 28th Annual Dinner Dance Leo Murphy CONTRACT DEPARTMENT Terryl Jares – Vice-President featuring the legendary Nancy Van Aacken ASSISTANTS TO THE Les Elgart Band PRESIDENT—JURISDICTIONS Terryl Jares – Vice-President under the Direction of Russ Dorsey Supervisor – Entire jurisdiction including theaters (Cell Phone: 312-310-4100) Dean Rolando Recordings, Transcriptions, Documentaries, Etc. (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Spencer Aloisio Gary Matts Terryl Jares DELEGATES TO CHICAGO Thursday, March 27, 2008 FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL Cocktails: 7pm Rich Daniels Gary Matts Terryl Jares Dinner: 8pm DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE Music: 8:30pm–12am AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS Spencer Aloisio Terryl Jares Rich Daniels Gary Matts Porretta Banquets Frank Donaldson 3718 N Central Ave, Chicago, IL Alternates: Robert Bauchens Larry Bowen EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO A delicious “family style” dinner Terryl Jares PRESIDENT EMERITI Unlimited wine with dinner Nicholas Bliss Ed Ward 4-hour open bar Harold (Hal) Dessent VICE-PRESIDENT EMERITUS and, of course, Dancing! Tom Beranek BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITI Tickets: $75 per person Ruth Marion Tobias Joe Majers Make all checks payable to: A.P.O.L. Open Daily, except Saturday, Sunday and Holidays Send your check to: Office Hours 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Ralph Wilder All Phones: 312-782-0063 (24 Hrs.) A.P.O.L Vice-President AFM WEB SITE: www.afm.org CFM WEB SITE: www.cfm10208.org 201 Wilmette Address all e-mail to the Glenview, IL 60025 Secretary/Treasurer: 847-486-9600 [email protected] March 2008 cfm10208.org Intermezzo Page 3 Findings of the Economic Impact Study Chicago: A City Where Music Packs a Significant Economic Punch By Dean Rolando The Chicago Music Commission is The CMC sought a more complete and accurate report, so an organization founded in 2003 by they commissioned the Cultural Policy Center of the University renowned music photographer Paul of Chicago to conduct the study. This study, completed in Natkin, Alligator Records owner Bruce October of 2007, not only identifies the value of the music Iglauer, and Pressure Point Studios industry in Chicago, but compares Chicago’s strengths to ten president Chris Schneider. The Mission of other cities of musical reputation: New York, Los Angeles, the CMC is to nurture and serve Chicago’s Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Las Vegas, Memphis, Nashville, New music community and promote Chicago Orleans, and Seattle. music and musicians to the world. The study was presented January 24th at the Harris Theater The CFM became involved with the by Lawrence Rothfield of the University of Chicago. (See CMC from the very beginning, attending information below for some of the key findings.) Dean Rolando, early meetings and functions. We became In addition Mr. Rothfield stated that further work is being Electronic Media co-sponsors of the Musicians At-Work undertaken to create an addendum to the study. Even as Forums which began in 2005 and are held impressive as the numbers are, they are from “for” profit entities. monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center (see announcement on They do not include any non-profit organizations such as page 7). They have had huge success attracting a large, diverse the Chicago Symphony, Lyric Opera, church musicians and group of musicians and performers. university music school instructors just to name a few. They In 2005 the CMC came to us to ask that we become a major will attempt to identify and place a value on these significant sponsor of the first ever economic impact study of the music areas and include them in this report. Please visit the Chicago industry in Chicago. Over the past years, cities such as Nashville, Music Commission Web site at www.chicago-music.org for more Austin, Atlanta, and Seattle had done studies but they dealt almost information. exclusively with the value of the industry in their home cities. There was no data to support comparison with other music cities. CHICAGO MUSIC CITY – A REPORT ON THE MUSIC INDUSTRY IN CHICAGO Prepared for: The Chicago Music Commission By: The Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago Primary Funding Provided by: The Chicago Federation of Musicians The Chicago Community Trust Key Findings: Overall employment in all music sub-industries in Chicago is 53,000 in businesses that generate payrolls totaling over $1 billion—3rd in the U.S. Chicago is a musical omnivore’s paradise offering more kinds of music regularly than anywhere other than New York or Los Angeles. To obtain a copy of the report, Among the 50 most populous metropolitan areas, Chicago ranks 5th in number contact Dean Rolando at the of musical groups and artists employed. Chicago Federation of Musicians, 312-782-0063, ext. 150. The live-music scene in Chicago is extraordinarily strong with 1,093 shows performed in Chicago in 2004, generating $80 million in revenue. In 2004, 47 out of Billboards Top 100 artists performed in Chicago, almost the same number as much larger New York and Los Angeles. Chicago attracts critically-acclaimed performers. Comparing acts that headlined in the 11 cities in this study against the Village Voice’s 2004 Jazz and Pop critics poll—43 of these acts performed in Chicago—ten more than New York. Intermezzo cfm10208.org March 2008 Page 4 Who, Where, When By Ruth Tobias Chicago, they became a part of the than before. Alfresco dining is enjoyed in city’s cultural history. pleasant weather on an adjacent terrace. For a century, generations of As before, the LOUIS SULLIVAN artists have enjoyed this environment Room, a library and facility for meetings and platform for their talents. The and smaller-scaled functions, honors the membership roster grew to include legendary architect who was one of the such luminaries as FRANK LLOYD illustrious members. The Fireside Lounge CLIFF DWELLERS CLUB WRIGHT, CARL SANDBURG, area also is replicated with its fireplace “As its members well know, the Cliff FREDERICK STOCK, famous CSO Dwellers is an ideal place for chamber conductor, and in more recent times music: an evening recital of fine music SAUL BELLOW, STUDS TERKEL, following a pleasant dinner is an and ROGER EBERT. experience to be long remembered… However, in 1995, the bloom was due to the club’s good fortune in having off the rose, as the club’s landlord, the a number of distinguished and generous Chicago Symphony Orchestra, suggested musicians among its members.” This the club find new quarters to allow paragraph is taken from a book by for the $100 million expansion and HENRY REGNERY entitled “The renovation of Orchestra Hall. Brewing Cliff Dwellers,” published by Chicago for several years, the controversy over a Historical Bookworks in 1990. It so-called hand shake 65 years earlier to traces the history of this club designed seal a promise of residency in perpetuity, The Cliff Dwellers at night for people “professionally engaged in went beyond gentlemen’s politeness with music, art, literature, and architecture the hint of lawsuits. No living member and oak paneling taken from its original (and) others seriously interested in such had witnessed the handshake and with home and installed intact. matters as non-professionals.” its authenticity in doubt it carried little From the club’s inception, ladies were In the aftermath of the 1893 World’s weight in the present days of multi- welcome after six in the evening and Fair, a young writer, HAMLIN million dollar lawsuits. invited to enjoy the afternoon teas that GARLAND, new to Chicago, looked Author/publisher Regnery, died in for years followed Friday afternoon upon the city as a future Midwestern 1996 about the time the club was being symphony concerts. They were included literary marketplace, second only to installed in its new quarters on the top of in the parties, lectures, and recitals as New York. Joining the writers attracted the Borg-Warner building just north of well. Regnery continues, “The most to Chicago by the fair, he soon was Orchestra Hall. The space was designed drastic change in the history of the meeting them regularly—first at by architect and club member LARRY Cliff Dwellers, that bastion of male the studio of LAREDO TAFT on BOOTH; much like the “Kiva” of old, chauvinism in the eyes of some, was still Van Buren Street. With the growing the ceilings are vaulted, the stunning to come: the admission of women as inclusion of writers such as HARRIET panoramic view of the lakefront is constant full-fledged members in 1984.” MONROE, PETER FINLEY and a wall of windows, now on three sides The world was changing and it took DUNNE, HENRY B. FULLER, of the dining room, provides a spectacular some adjustment on the part of males to GEORGE ADE, and EUGENE display of Michigan Avenue’s renowned begin sharing their “noontime privacy” FIELD, the group then met in the Fine skyscrapers—all from 22 stories above the Arts Building and the nucleus of the building’s entrance-—13 floors higher Continued on page 11 Cliff Dwellers was born. Incorporating in 1907, they adopted the Cliff Dwellers name and occupied the penthouse on top of Orchestra Hall with a grand view of Lake Michigan and Grant Park.