Young Stars on the Rise By-Law Meeting: Aurelia String Quartet Wins Tuesday, April 14Th, 2009 @ 1:00 Pm Rembrandt Chamber Players Music Competition
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April 2009 Vol. 69 No. 4 Young Stars on the Rise By-Law Meeting: Aurelia String Quartet wins Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Rembrandt Chamber Players music competition. Membership Meeting: Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm see page 14 Aurelia String Quartet: Arianna Smith, Allan Steele, Laura Park, Susie Koh. 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 Robert Bauchens Bob Lizik Terryl Jares Rich Daniels Janice MacDonald Vice President Frank Donaldson Leo Murphy B.J. Levy CONTRACT DEPARTMENT Terryl Jares – Vice-President Nancy Van Aacken How fast these months go by. It seems like we just kicked off 2009 and we are already into April! It ASSISTANTS TO THE PRESIDENT - JURISDICTIONS occurred to me that I have never written about our Terryl Jares - Vice-President Supervisor - Entire jurisdiction Local’s magazine, Intermezzo. including theaters (Cell Phone: 312-310-4100) My involvement with the Intermezzo began thirteen Dean Rolando Recordings, Transcriptions, years ago when the Editor, Tom Beranek, asked me to Documentaries, Etc. write short biographies of each of our new members. (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) After being elected Vice-President, I took over as DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE the Editor of our newspaper which is now a full-color ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR magazine. AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATIONS Spencer Aloisio Gary Matts I have worked with the columnists Ruth Tobias, Chuck Terryl Jares Sengstock and Jack Zimmerman to bring articles of DELEGATES TO CHICAGO FEDERATION OF LABOR AND interest to our membership. We have also featured INDUSTRIAL UNION COUNCIL articles written by our members on topics of mutual Rich Daniels Gary Matts interest such as CFM to Launch New Website written Terryl Jares by Leo Murphy and CD Production and Duplication written DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS by Pat Ferreri. Spencer Aloisio Terryl Jares Rich Daniels Gary Matts Frank Donaldson As I put together this month’s Intermezzo, I want Alternates: to remind each of you that the Intermezzo is your Robert Bauchens Larry Bowen publication. I welcome items of interest such as current EDITOR, THE INTERMEZZO musical events and photographs. Let me know where you Terryl Jares are performing and snap a candid for the membership to PRESIDENT EMERITI Nicholas Bliss Ed Ward enjoy. Add your CD’s to our ever- expanding list of Harold (Hal) Dessent CD’s For Sale. VICE-PRESIDENT EMERITUS Tom Beranek Most important, give me ideas of things you would like to BOARD OF DIRECTORS EMERITUS see in future issues of the Intermezzo. Ruth Marion Tobias Open Daily, except Saturday, Sunday and Holidays February 2009 Membership Meetings: Vol. 69 No. 2 Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm January 2009 March 2009 Office Hours 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Joe Majers Memoriam, see page 8 Vol. 69 No. 1 Vol. 69 No. 3 The Green Mill, see page 14 Membership Meeting: Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm Membership Meetings By-Law Meeting: Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 All Phones: 312-782-0063 (24 Hrs.) Tuesday, April 14th, 2009 @ 1:00 pm 1:00 pm 2009 Tuesday, February 10th, 1:00 pm Dal Segno NOTICE: Change in the Rehearsal Exemption, Honorees AFM WEB SITE: www.afm.org see page 3 see page 14 CFM WEB SITE: www.cfm10208.com Address all e-mail to the Secretary/Treasurer: [email protected] Cover photography taken by HAPPY NEW YEAR! K.C. Hatfield at Images by K.C. Cover illustration provided by Chris Nolan Creative. April 2009 cfm10208.com Intermezzo Page 3 By Ruth Marion Tobias he dashed from a CSO rehearsal. With the the future of instrumental music, by not Timpanist Robert Everson, is a born and Joffrey Ballet (for which Sinfonietta is the exposing kids to it. Everyone asks how bred Chicagoan who became the only official orchestra) and CSO performances do you get people to come to concerts? musician in his family when his mother almost dovetailing that week, the following Well, you have to get them to like it when offered him the choice of piano or violin days held a flurry of rehearsals and alternate they’re kids. Unlike sushi that you learn lessons. He said, “Drums”. He was four afternoon and evening performances of both to enjoy later in life, you have to really years old. “Mother made the further orchestras. It made for a lively juggling act enjoy music as a kid to want to go back and decision that it would be piano lessons so for Bobby. He enthused, “The joys of being enjoy it as an adult. Like taking your kid to, that is how I began,” he said, “and while a free lancer! I love the variety. When CSO say the ‘Nutcracker’—that’s an important piano was a plus, by the time I was 10 and played Mahler two under [Bernard] Haitink thing and to hear a live orchestra, such an in an elementary school which had a band, recently it was wonderful. But it can important part of the experience, seeing the I got to play drums.” He really liked drums! become a very complicated schedule. That instruments in place; kids love identifying Still does, and that love has led to an is why my Oak Park home is so convenient them. But by not having music in schools enormously complicated schedule. for my work we are losing our future audience. So I His high school years were spent at Lane downtown.” do school concerts, 25 to 30 a year. This Tech, long known for the professional Certainly not past year I did a concert in every school musicians it developed and Bobby said, limited to in Evanston through EISMA (Evanston “Lane had everything to do with my downtown, he In-School Music Assn.) in two weeks. wanting to become a professional musician. also plays with However Evanston is the only suburb I had so many musical opportunities in the Lake Forest that does this. Nine years ago I did this high school.” His musical studies continued and Elgin particular program the first time. “at the place for percussionists” he was _ symphonies and told DePaul University, with Albert Payson summertime “When I was at DePaul Henry Mazur asked (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, retired: gigs at Ravinia me to do some CSO school concerts so I 1997) and Michael Green (Lyric Opera Bob Everson Park. travelled with him. Then he let me do a Orchestra) “who introduced me to the right couple without him. The symphony also people. I also studied with Bobby Christian Sinfonietta performs at Orchestra Hall, had a percussion quartet that did these. and took coaching with Gordon Peters, Don Dominican University in River Forest, and At first I supplied the instruments, but Koss and Jim Ross. My first steady job as the Harris Theatre in Millennium Park. A then they asked me to play. With that, I a player was with the American Chamber trial concert series at the Harris proved to developed my own program. Someone Symphony, long since gone, but a great be disappointing as audiences expressed asked me to do it through the International experience.” displeasure with the theatre layout and Music Foundation, so I have been involved the difficulty accessing it. However, in this over twenty years. At first I rented “I have also been the only timpanist with the orchestra returned to the theatre to some of the instruments when I was still the Chicago Sinfonietta since its inception.” accompany the San Francisco Ballet last in school—then as I was able to, I bought That equates to a 21-year career with fall. Bobby opined that “Orchestra Hall more of my own and got my start doing my Paul Freeman’s exceptional orchestra. is much prettier and more pleasant—the own concerts.” “Sinfonietta was like a wonderful family underground aspect of the theatre is not experience,” he said, “and provided great a happy proposition. However, the San “I have a lot of timpani and when I have exposure and experience for musicians. Francisco Ballet went very well there and jobs in more than one place I have to leave We used to tour a lot, alternating major was so enjoyable.” sets at different places. Sometimes I have foreign trips with domestic trips: Vienna, several sets out at the same time; three or Leipzig, the old storied venues of Europe; A man deeply concerned with the future four in the Auditorium now are mine and I then California, Michigan, for instance, and of live music for coming generations, he have more at home. With four or five drums our last tour to Washington, D.C. before appreciates his own education, particularly in a set, I have 19 all told. The basement is 9/11 when our upcoming tour to England at DePaul. “The schools which have bands all mine. We had to move the laundry room [subsequently] was cancelled.” [provide] the only time when kids see an upstairs!” instrument up close and how else would As a substitute and extra player with the I have gotten into this if I hadn’t seen Now who can blame this talented man for Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Bobby finds these instruments on stage there or had the the joy he feels in his work? “This is all the “hardest part, sometimes, is running opportunity to be in a band? We’re kind of fun!” he conceded. from place to place between rehearsals and shooting ourselves in the foot, in terms of performances.” We met for this interview as Intermezzo cfm10208.com April 2009 Page 4 By Ruth Marion Tobias DATELINE: FEBRUARY, NEW ORLEANS…… that integrates these efforts, provides direct assistance for housing, and connects musicians to an array of resources” partnering with Fat Tuesday of my first Mardi Gras carnival! Walkin’ the Quarter many support groups such as The Actors Fund of America, AFM in sunny 70 degrees ‘til sundown and on to Frenchman Street Local 174-496, Renew our Music Fund, Society of Singers, lookin’ at the white-clad, skinny guy with angel wings on stilts; Tipitina’s Foundation and WWOZ Radio to name a few.