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September 2010 Vol. 70 No. 8 Constitution and By-Law Meeting: Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 @1:00 pm Nomination Meeting Tuesday, October 5th, 2010 @1:00 pm 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 CHICAGO FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS Robert Bauchens Bob Lizik Rich Daniels Janice MacDonald LOCAL NO. 10-208, A.F. of M. Frank Donaldson Leo Murphy B.J. Levy TO BE HELD ON CONTRACT DEPARTMENT Terryl Jares – Vice-President TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5th , 2010 at 1:00 PM Nancy Van Aacken ASSISTANTS TO THE Union Headquarters PRESIDENT - JURISDICTIONS 656 W. Randolph St., #2W, Chicago, Illinois Terryl Jares - Vice-President Supervisor - Entire jurisdiction To stand for election on Sunday, November 14, 2010 including theaters For the 3 year term beginning December 14, 2010 (Cell Phone: 312-310-4100) Dean Rolando Recordings, Transcriptions, Nomination of candidates will be conducted for Documentaries, Etc. the following offices and delegations to stand for (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) election on Sunday, November 14, 2010 for the DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR three (3) year term beginning December 14, 2010. AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Spencer Aloisio Gary Matts PRESIDENT, VICE-PRESIDENT, SECRETARY-TREASURER, Terryl Jares MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, DELEGATES TO CHICAGO DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTIONS OF THE FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR AND Rich Daniels Gary Matts CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS, Terryl Jares DELEGATES TO THE MEETINGS OF THE CHICAGO DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS FEDERATION OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL UNION Spencer Aloisio Terryl Jares COUNCIL, DELEGATES TO THE CONVENTIONS OF Rich Daniels Gary Matts Frank Donaldson THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OF THE Alternates: UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Robert Bauchens Larry Bowen EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO The By-Laws provide that Nominations may be made Terryl Jares PRESIDENT EMERITI orally from the floor at said meeting or by Petition of Nicholas Bliss Ed Ward fifteen (15) members in good standing filed with the VICE-PRESIDENT EMERITUS Secretary-Treasurer prior to the opening of said Tom Beranek Nomination meeting. BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITUS Ruth Marion Tobias Nomination petitions are available from the Open Daily, except Secretary-Treasurer’s office, at the C.F.M., upon request. Saturday, Sunday and Holidays Office Hours 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. ELECTION OF OFFICERS AND DELEGATES All Phones: 312-782-0063 (24 Hrs.) SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2010 AFM WEB SITE: www.afm.org CFM WEB SITE: www.cfm10208.com AT UNION HEADQUARTERS Address all e-mail to the Secretary/Treasurer: [email protected] Cover illustration provided by Chris Nolan Creative. September 2010 cfm10208.com Intermezzo Page 3 Life Member Party Members of the Union for 50, 60, 70 and 75 years will be honored. Date: Friday, October 15th, 2010 Time: 12:00 Noon Place: Union Headquarters 656 W. Randolph St., Suite 2W Featuring the music of “Gregory Peck” and his Orchestra Please RSVP by Any photos or memorabilia September 24th, 2010 you care to bring with you Call 312-782-0063, ext. 136 will add to the festivities! Intermezzo cfm10208.com September 2010 Page 4 By Ruth Marion Tobias IT’S TO LAUGH! by LEROY ANDERSON, JOHN The Seigfried Trio performed live in the My feeling is that we should laugh a bit WILLIAMS, LERNER and LOEWE studio. Karl also was interviewed on the first. So much has been sad and serious and IRVING BERLIN. Winkler uses historical background of the musical of late. And so…. a highly effective approach, choosing portraits featured on the new recording. music that people of all ages can * * * * * As a senior citizen was driving down recognize, gaining happy audiences that The sensational Lakeside Singers were the freeway, his car phone rang. return again and again. on hand at Ravinia Pavilion to take part Answering, he heard his wife’s voice in the celebration of CHRISTOPH urgently warning him, “Herman, I just Phil Feo, freelance trumpeter, has ESCHENBACH’s 70th birthday. The heard on the news that there’s a car composed, orchestrated and copied beloved conductor and pianist played going the wrong way on the Interstate. music for over twenty-five years. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 23 in A Major Please be careful!” Said Herman, “It’s America’s Hope was inspired by the with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra not just one car, it’s hundreds of them!” challenges we Americans face—a and excerpts from Candide backed by salute to our precious gift of freedom the Lakeside Singers. Also, this admission: I may be and a brief moment to reaffirm our schizophrenic, but at least I have each conviction that there always is hope for IMPRESSIONS & other. our future. His next project will be a EXPRESSIONS concert in North Carolina in October Guitarist FRANK Or…..I found Jesus! He was in my in which he will have at least two, D’RONE and his trunk when I got back from Tijuana. (“maybe three, if I finish in time”) superb vocals will (Thanks to DEE HAGARI for all these laughs.) compositions performed. be in the studio this month to record a NOW BACK TO Royal Trumpet Works, Inc. is Feo’s new CD comprising BUSINESS music contracting company, supplying solo work and big In the recent professional musicians to Chicagoland band orchestrations. Frank D’Rone performance of clients since 1987. A former member Should be a winner. the Symphonic of the CSO music library for eighteen Pops Orchestra years, he has prepared scores for A fan, TED NARON, after hearing of Chicago, such artists as SIR GEORG Frank at Chambers, posted on director FRANK SOLTI, LEONARD BERNSTEIN, Songbirds* an impression of the artist WINKLER DANIEL BARENBOIM, and DOC he had only known from recordings. Frank Winkler included a new SEVERINSEN among others. Wrote Naron, “ I’ve been an admirer composition, * * * * * …but had never seen him live, despite “America’s Hope” The follow-up to the release party that he’s a Chicago fixture. Sensitive (Symphonic held at Morseland on Chicago’s and swinging music making… Overture) by north side, for bassist KARL communicating the meaning of songs local trumpeter E. H. SEIGFRIED’s new jazz on a deep level… melodic variation and composer, album,“Portrait of Jack Johnson”, was with a unique and personal stamp. PHIL FEO. his guest appearances on “The Jazz *an online group made up, primarily, of This work was Show”, WNUR 89.3 FM—he played musicians and music lovers who hold online programmed along tracks from the album—and on “Eight discussions about songs and singers. * * * * * Phil Feo with selections Forty-Eight”, WBEZ 9l.5 FM, where September 2010 cfm10208.com Intermezzo Page 5 I…felt exhilarated for the entirety of COMIN’ UP (Roosevelt University), Geneva (Fox the long set. Two ballads really reached To quote composer PETER Valley Presbyterian Church) and me—“Long Ago and Far Away” and SCHICKLELE: “Orion is what Evanston (Music Institute of Chicago) “Smile”—might have been the best chamber music should be: all individual on the following schedule: version of “Smile” I’ve ever heard by virtuosity melded into a group Chicago anyone.” Referencing Chambers, Mr. personality.” Keep that in mind Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. Naron mentioned good food and drinks as Orion Ensemble’s “jam-packed September 22, 2010 and a “friendly vibe. Something special season of music” begins in September November 17, 2010 is going on there.” and will include four programs March 9, 2011 Forty members of CSO were in featuring works from composers May 18, 2011 attendance for the 10th season such as ROBERT SCHUMANN, opener of “Music by the Lake”, ASTOR PIAZZOLA and LUDWIG Geneva on Williams Bay, Lake Geneva, to VAN BEETHOVEN”. The ensemble Sundays at 7:00 p.m accompany baritone BRIAN STOKES also will feature an all-French September 19, 2010 MITCHELL. This remarkable singer program in November, including November 21, 2010 is a regular in New York: on Broadway, CÉSAR FRANCK’s Sonata in A March 6, 2011 Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center; Major for Violin and/or cello; JEAN May 1, 2011 appearances in the Hollywood Bowl; FRANCAIX’s Trio for clarinet, Evanston and on television as an actor, notably viola and piano; and THÉODORE Sundays: 3:00/ 7:30 on many episodes of “Trapper John, DUBOIS’ Quintet in F Major for October 3, 2010 at 7:30 M.D.”(a spin-off of the old M.A.S.H. piano, clarinet, violin, viola and cello. Nov. 28, 2010 at 3 pm show) and episodes of “Frazier” and Performances are in Chicago, Feb. 27, 2011 at 7:30 pm “Ugly Betty”. His uninterrupted May 8, 2011 at 3 pm 1-hour program was glorious with Orion will partner with Ballet Chicago selections from “South Pacific” (ah, for the February 27, March 6 and there, EZIO PINZA), some GEORGE March 9 performances and feature GERSHWIN, a little bit of jazz and the debut of Orion’s “Instruments of clever patter between the big numbers Revelation” by VICTORIA BOND. on an exceptionally beautiful evening in Dancers will perform the choreography Wisconsin. of Ballet Chicago Director DANIEL DUELL. For information call; 630.628.9591 Orion Ensemble or visit orionensemble.org. Intermezzo cfm10208.com September 2010 Page 6 The United States Department of Labor has determined that Article 17, Section 4(b) of the AFM Bylaws allowing an additional Convention delegate from the African American members of merged locals to be unlawful in that the African American delegates so elected cast ballots for Federation officers during the elections held at the Convention.