Membership Meeting: By-Law Meeting: March 2016 Tuesday, March 8th, 2016 Tuesday, April 12th, 2016 Vol. 76 No. 3 @ 1:00 pm @ 1:00 pm Local 10-208 of AFM FEDERATION OF MUSICIANS OFFICERS – DELEGATES 2014-2016 Gary Matts President Terryl Jares Vice-President Gary Matts Leo Murphy Secretary-Treasurer Terryl Jares BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert Bauchens Bob Lizik Rich Daniels Janice MacDonald You Have Rights – An Introduction to Weingarten Rights Frank Donaldson Charles Schuchat Music in the Schools B.J. Levy “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in CONTRACT DEPARTMENT a court of law. You have… etc...” Does that sound familiar? You probably recognize it as the Terryl Jares – Vice-President In October of 2010, the CFM launched • Soloists and groups of up to six musicians Miranda warning. Hopefully, you have heard this monologue in movies and on TV and not Nancy Van Aacken Music in the Schools. This program was are eligible to participate. being read to you by an officer of the law. For an individual who is in custody and subject to ASSISTANTS TO THE designed to bring live musical performances • An application must be submitted and direct questioning by law enforcement, Miranda rights guard against violation of the Fifth PRESIDENT - JURISDICTIONS by professional musicians to students across approved by the board of directors to Amendment right against self-incrimination. Terryl Jares - Vice-President Supervisor - Entire jurisdiction Northern . Its objective was to increase participate in the program. Union members working under a collective bargaining agreement have protections called including theaters the student’s knowledge, understanding, • Programs are not to exceed 45 minutes in Weingarten rights. Established by the Supreme Court in 1975, Weingarten rights guarantee (Cell Phone: 312-310-4100) appreciation and enjoyment of live musical length or no more than two segments of 30 employees the right to union representation when an employer conducts an investigatory Dean Rolando performances. minutes within two hours. interview. An “investigatory interview” is a meeting at which an employee is asked to provide Recordings, Transcriptions, information that could be used for purposes of discipline or termination. In a musician Documentaries, Etc. There are currently twenty three soloists • The CFM and the performance venue will workplace, a typical “union representative” would be a union steward, an orchestra committee (Cell Phone: 708-380-6219) and ensembles participating in the program. split the cost of the performance. member, or a union officer. DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS OF THE We have visited over thirty institutions where This is a great opportunity to bring your There is a process for asserting Weingarten rights: ILLINOIS STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR children from pre-school through high school talents to our next generation of listeners. AND CONGRESS OF INDUSTRIAL have seen a variety of programs. The feedback To participate in the program, contact me at 1. The employee must request a union representative before or during the interview. ORGANIZATIONS (Unlike Miranda rights, the employer is not obligated to inform the employee of his or Terryl Jares Leo Murphy from the administrators has been tremendously positive with [email protected]. I can answer any questions about the her rights – the request must come from the employee. Nor can the request come from Gary Matts some groups performing at the same school program, send you an application, and help you along the the union representative.) 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2 Intermezzo March 2016 March 2016 Intermezzo 3 She wrote, “I’ve had an interesting The rehearsal and concerts went And Orphans_Songs Looking For couple of weeks - out of apparently well and she feels good that “I took a Good Home. The clever liner nowhere, I was emailed with a on something that was a bit out notes on this CD are worth the gig offer to play piano with the of my comfort zone, devoted the price of admission alone! For each Tucson Symphony Orchestra! They necessary time to learning it, and of the seventeen songs presented, By Ruth Marion Tobias had a special guest trumpeter then performed pretty well! Guess Marilyn is posed in a Little Orphan who was doing a couple of Louis you can teach an old dog new tricks, Annie wig next to a speech Armstrong/New Orleans concerts if you’re patient and keep calm. balloon containing her succinct this past weekend. I picked up I even found out who had referred commentary. All very clever stuff. WHAT HAS BEEN GOING ON in preparing for a release date, but WHAT ARE FRIENDS FOR! the music at the orchestra office me for the gig - a percussionist I’d And wait till you hear the songs!! We hope your Valentines Day they are methodic in getting ready HERE’S THE STORY and felt a bit daunted - LOTS of hired for a church gig years ago!?” Check out her website for was spent with your true love and for a proper debut, here in the US I have two dear musician friends, notes-reading, and not just chord Brava, Marilyn. other CDs and goodies: that many of you got in the mood and overseas. It seems like they former Chicagoans who moved symbols! LOTS of complicated www.marilynharris.com early (February 6th) by attending were dealing with the renaming west, now residing in Arizona_ rhythmic figures and changing A couple of her recent CDs are the Lake Forest Symphony’s process for close to a year – MARILYN HARRIS and husband, tempos and time signatures, due American Journeys-Music for CORRECTION gala dinner/dance, benefitting showing the movie to various MARK WOLFRAM. Her latest to the medley-nature of the charts. Relaxation and Meditation We received a change in soloist its educational initiatives, at audience test groups, asking for personal item is a natural for this LOTS of empty bars to count! (as recorded with SANDY CARTER, on the Chicago Philharmonic’s the Onwentsia Club in Lake feedback regarding the title, the column. Marilyn is an accomplished a pianist who generally plays club on guitars_acoustic, electric and February 7 program. Violinist Forest. For the second year ROY subject matter, movie classification, pianist/singer, composer/arranger dates and private parties, I haven’t pedal steel guitar. DAVID PERRY was unable to VOMBRACK’S Jazz Consortium etc. Also, their list of submissions and recording artist with a number had to count bars of rests very much perform due to an injury. World Big Band played the black-tie- to film festivals is global. They of Hollywood’s super players. in my professional life - it’s quite class violin soloist CHEE-YUN optional fund-raising event, and are planning an official release in anxiety provoking!) I researched stepped in to perform Vivaldi’s Four as Vombrack noted, “we will be theaters sometime in 2016.” as much as I could on the trumpeter, Seasons & Piazzolla’s Four Seasons looking our best in tuxedos. And BYRON STRIPLING - looking of Buenos Aires. you, too, can start 2016 looking As good as that news is for Don, for YouTube videos, sheet music your best in an elegant setting and he is even more excited to find of the charts, bio, etc. do some serious dancing to your he is a Grammy Nominee_“all a And I practiced!” favorite Big Band selections by result of my being a member of your favorite big band”….. the Artist Ensemble in Residence at the University of Chicago, The About DON STILLE’S continuing New Budapest Orpheum Society music saga: Don wrote, “The (NBOS). We recorded and released movie for which I performed on a CD project in 2014, “When the sound-track is in the process of Dreams Fall Apart” featuring being re-titled. (Originally entitled) Jewish Stage and Film Music from “Swan Song,” it will be released as 1925 – 1955.” Congratulations, Don! Marilyn Harris “The Looking Glass.” The director, JOHN HANCOCK, and his team appear to be moving very slowly Chee Yun

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take a teaching post at the Indiana University Jacobs School Francis Akos of Music in Bloomington. In Chicago in 1980, Akos and Hungarian-born violinist was CSO member for 48 years Straker reunited with their colleague, pianist Gyorgy Sebok, Bryan P. Slepicka Acct. #57136 (Bass Guitar) 1922-2016 for a concert re-creating the piano trio they had formed in P.O. Box 723 Budapest just before the war. Starker died in 2013. Akos Chicago Heights, IL 60412 Francis Akos was one of several prominent, Hungarian- Aitay, Straker and Sebok all studied at the Franz Liszt 708-733-2022 born musicians of Jewish ancestry who, along with his Academy in Budapest, where Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly colleagues, cellist Janos Starker and violinist Victor Aitay, and Leo Weiner were their professors. Always top of his managed to survive the Holocaust and, following World War class, Akos won the Jeno Hubay and Remenyi prizes, the II, immigrate to the American Midwest, where each enjoyed latter being a violin specially made for the competition long and distinguished performing careers. A member of winner. After the war, Akos served as concertmaster of the the violin section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Budapest Symphony Orchestra and later of the Hungarian 48 years until his retirement in 2003, Royal Opera and Philharmonic orchestras; he was the Akos died January 28 in Minneapolis youngest person ever to hold those posts. He immigrated following a brief illness, according to to the U.S. in 1954, performing with the Minneapolis a statement released by the orchestra. Symphony (now Minnesota Orchestra) under Antal Dorati, He was 93 and he and his family were before Reiner brought him to Chicago. Akos appeared as longtime residents of Evanston. Akos soloist with the CSO on numerous occasions and also held joined the CSO at music director Fritz music directorships with several local ensembles, including Reiner’s invitation as assistant principal the Chicago Strings, Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra and Join The second violin in 1955 and became Chicago Heights Symphony Orchestra. He led the Highland section principal the following year. He Park Strings for 28 years as the group’s founding music was appointed assistant concertmaster in 1959 and remained director. “For more than half my life, I have lived in Chicago in that chair until 1997 when Daniel Barenboim named as a member of the world’s greatest orchestra,” Akos him assistant concertmaster emeritus, a title he held until said at the time of his CSO retirement. “The music, the his retirement in 2003. He was one of the longest-tenured composers, the conductors, and the soloists have inspired CSO members in the orchestra’s history. His rise at the CSO me. I am especially grateful to have been blessed with the closely paralleled that of his friend Aitay, whom Reiner inspiration I have received from my CSO colleagues during hired as assistant concertmaster in 1954. Aitay went on to my professional life.” He is survived by two daughters, Kate become concertmaster in 1967 and, like Akos, assumed an Akos and Judy Akos Berkowitz; and two grandchildren. Are you willing to walk in solidarity with other unions to help get our union message out to the public? If emeritus title before he, too, retired in 2003. Aitay died in Services will be private, and plans for a public memorial each local union of the Chicago Federation of Labor brings 1% of its membership out to a rally, we will 2012. Their compatriot and colleague Straker served as CSO will be announced at a later date. have over 5,000 workers marching and delivering our message to the public. Please join the 1% Solution. principal cello for Reiner’s first five seasons, beginning in By John von Rhein, courtesy of Chicago Tribune Add your name to the list of CFM musicians willing to be called to action. Call us at 312-782-0063 or 1953, before leaving in 1958 to pursue a solo career and go to our website (www.cfm10208.org) using the CONTACT US tab and adding “One percent solution” to your comments.

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12 Intermezzo March 2016 March 2016 Intermezzo 13 Unique Programs

Attend an Orchestra Concert Phil Passen or an Opera St. Patrick’s Day Music Baroque Band on Hammered Dulcimer By Nancy Van Aacken Leipzig’s Got Talent Sunday, March 13, 2016 2:00 – 3:30 PM We have many musicians performing throughout the area. Helen Plum Memorial Library Friday, March 11, 2016 at 7:30 PM 110 W. Maple Street, Lombard Support them by attending a performance or patronizing Augustana Lutheran Church an establishment where they work. Wednesday, March 16, 2016 7:00 – 8:30 PM 5500 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago Tinley Park Public Library Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM 7851 Timber Lane, Tinley Park www.philpassen.com Music Institute of Chicago 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston Enjoy a musical! Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM Symphony Center Grainger Ballroom Enjoy a Musical! Oriental Theatre 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago Matilda (312) 235–2368 www.baroqueband.org Cadillac Palace Theatre March 22nd - April 10th Attend an Orchestra Concert 42nd Street 312-977-1700 cp2 (Chicago Philharmonic Chamber Players) or an Opera March 8th – March 20th, 2016 Paramount Theatre Don’t Mean a Thing: Timeless Tunes 312-977-1700 from the Giants of Jazz West Side Story Lake Forest Symphony Sunday, March 20, 2016, 12:00 PM March 16th – April 24th Mozart and Sibelius Drury Lane Theatre City Winery Bye Bye Birdie 630-896-6666 1200 W Randolph, Chicago Saturday, March 19, 2016 at 8:00 PM January 14th – March 13th 312-957-0000 Sunday, March 20, 2016 at 2:00 PM Hazel The Second City www.chicagophilharmonic.org James Lumber Center for the Performing Arts Alex Kliner & Jacob Shuda 19351 W. Washington Street, Grayslake March 31st – May 29th, 2016 Chicago Sinfonietta Sunday through Saturday 847-543-2300 630-530-0111 BYOB: Bring Your Own Beat www.lakeforestsymphony.org 1616 N. Wells St., Chicago Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 8:00 PM Marriott Lincolnshire Theater Wentz Concert Hall Northbrook Symphony Orchestra Sister Act 171 E. Chicago Avenue, Naperville Bohemian Odyssey February 10th - April 3rd, 2016 Monday, March 14, 2016 at 7:30 PM Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 4:00PM 847-634-0200 Symphony Center Glenbrook North High School 220 S. Michigan, Chicago Sheely Center for the Performing Arts 2300 Shermer Road, Northbrook Marriott Theatre for 312-284-1554 All That Jazz www.chicagosinfonietta.org 847-272-0755 Young Audiences www.northbrooksymphony.org Cinderella … After the Ball Jazz on Sundays Elgin Symphony Orchestra March 3rd – May 8th, 2016 March 6 – Bernard Scavella... Sax Brahms & Ives: No Limits Park Ridge Civic Orchestra Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture: 847-634-0200 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 7:30 PM A Russian Spectacular March 13 – Maggie Brown…Vocal Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 2:30 PM With Maine South Band & Orchestra 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM Hemmens Cultural Center Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 7:30 PM 45 Symphony Way, Elgin Pickwick Theater March 20 – Victor Goines… Sax 847-888-4000 5 South Prospect Ave., Park Ridge 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM www.elginsymphony.org 847-692-7726 www.parkridgecivicorchestra.org Shot and a GOAL! March 27 – Art Hoyle…Trumpet Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM Mendelsohn’s Elijah The Symphony of Oak Park Frank Pellico and River Forest James Wagner Hyde Park Jazz Society Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 3:00 PM per Chicago Blackhawks schedule Room 43 Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church Romantic Masters United Center 1043 E. 43rd Street, Chicago 149 West Brush Hill Road, Elmhurst Sunday, March 6, 2016 at 4:00 PM 1901 W. Madison St., Chicago www.HydeParkJazzSociety.com 630-941-0202 Dominican University Performing Arts Center www.elmhurstsymphony.org 7900 West Division St., 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 Vice-President Jares at [email protected]. Listings will be included provided there is a Union contract on file.

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI, Zell Music Director

Announces auditions for the following:

SUBSTITUTE CELLO

Auditions are held behind a screen. The Audition Committee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra reserves the right to dismiss immediately any candidate not meeting the highest professional standards at these auditions.

SUBSTITUTE CELLO AUDITIONS ARE SCHEDULED FOR April 21. 2016 Application deadline is April 1, 2016

Applicants should send a brief one page resume, including Name, Address, Phone Number, E-mail address and Instrument to:

E-mail: [email protected]

Auditions Coordinator Chicago Symphony Orchestra 220 South Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60604

Phone: 312/294-3271 Fax: 312/294-3272 www.cso.org/csoauditions

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CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA RICCARDO MUTI, Zell Music Director

Announces auditions for the following:

PRINCIPAL OBOE

Effective Fall, 2016

The best qualified applicant will be accepted even if not immediately available. Preliminary auditions are held behind a screen. Immediate notification of acceptance or rejection is given at all auditions.

NOTE: ONLY HIGHLY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS SHOULD APPLY The Audition Committee of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra reserves the right to dismiss immediately any candidate not meeting the highest professional standards at these auditions.

Preliminary auditions for PRINCIPAL OBOE scheduled for June, 2016 Final auditions tentatively scheduled for June 13 or 20, 2016 Application materials must be received by April 15, 2016 DISCLAIMER

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16 Intermezzo March 2016 March 2016 Intermezzo 17 TheThe Mt.Mt. ProspectProspect CommunityCommunity BandBand

Mark Russell Smith, Music Director Announces anticipated openings for the 2016-17 Season: Flute 3 / Piccolo Welcomes its new Music Director, Monty Adams, Section Violin (both 1st &2nd) and is inviting new members to join the band. if you Section Viola Section Cello The play Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Sax, Trum- pet, Horn, Trombone, Baritone, Euphonium, Tuba, 3rd Flute Auditions will be held April 2, 2016. Schedule to be arranged based on responses. Percussion or String Bass you are Online application deadline for welcome to come join us. The band rehearses 3rd Flute/Piccolo is March 18. on Monday nights from 7:30 - 9:30pm at the All remaining auditions will be held June 4-5. RecPlex, 420 W. Dempster St. in Mt. Prospect. Online application deadline for remaining openings is May 20. For more information, please visit All audition dates are subject to change. www.mppd.org For more information and to apply or email Ann Zimmerman at go to www.qcso.org [email protected] [Un] Bank The Quad City Symphony is a per-service orchestra. Please send all inquiries to: Rich Stodd, QCSO Personnel Manager, [email protected] 327 Brady Street, Davenport, IA 52801 for Musicians

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18 Intermezzo March 2016 March 2016 Intermezzo 19 Join the TEMPO Signature Club The TEMPO Signature Club allows members to step up their commitment to our political efforts by contributing a one-time annual payment of $52.00. Contributions are used to help keep friends in congress who are committed to supporting music and in particular federal policy issues that help our members.

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22 Intermezzo March 2016 March 2016 Intermezzo 23 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND TOTAL: $2,496.86

The Musicians Relief Fund helps Local 10-208 musicians in time of need. Contributions can be made in memory of a musician that has touched your life and whose life you would like to see remembered. Or, a general contribution can be made to the fund. Your name will be added to the expanding list of generous donors.

Make checks payable to the Musicians Relief Fund to view the list of cfm and mail them to the Chicago Federation of Musicians contributors, go to 656 W. Randolph St. #2W CFM10208.COM Chicago, IL 60661 Attn: Membership Dept.

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TOTAL: $1,720.00

TEMPO is the AFM’s nonpartisan, multi-candidate political action fund that is supported entirely by the voluntary contributions of AFM members, staff and family. Contributions from others cannot be accepted and will be returned. TEMPO contributions are used for political purposes, including contributions and expenditures in federal and state elections and to support candidates of either party who have a demonstrated record of support for professional musicians, issues of concern to its members and the arts in general. To make a contribution, make your check payable to TEMPO and send it c/o Chicago Federation of Musicians to view the list of cfm 656 W. Randolph St., #2W contributors, go to Chicago, IL 60661 CFM10208.COM Attn: Membership Dept. No adverse action will or may be taken to pressure anyone to contribute or to enforce a guideline for contributions. Federal law requires us to use our best efforts to collect and report the name, mailing address, occupation and name of employer of individuals whose contributions exceed $200 in a calendar year. Contributions or gifts to AFM TEMPO are not deductible for federal income tax purposes.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CFM SCHOLARSHIP FUND TOTAL: $1,070.86

Contributions to the CFM College Scholarship Fund for Music Students are in memory of Leland Baska, Loren Binford, Frank D’Rone, Shelly Elias, Rick Frigo and Wayne Roepke. This fund helps the CFM continue to offer financial assistance for children of CFM members as well as students of CFM members that are currently working toward a music degree. Make checks payable to the CFM Scholarship Fund to view the list of cfm and mail them to the Chicago Federation of Musicians contributors, go to 656 W. Randolph St. #2W Chicago, IL 60661 CFM10208.COM Attn: Membership Dept. We will add your name to the list of contributors on our website.

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