ASSOCIATED MUSICIANS OF GREATER NEW YORK www.Local802afm.org MayAllegro 2020 l Volume 120, No. 5 USING TECH TO STAY CONNECTED …AND WE REMEMBER THOSE WE’VE LOST n YOUR UNION STAFF LOCAL 802 OFFICERS FIELD REPRESENTATIVES Adam Krauthamer, President Theresa Couture Karen Fisher, Financial Vice President Marisa Friedman Andy Schwartz, Recording Vice President Shane Gasteyer EXECUTIVE BOARD Bob Pawlo www.Local802afm.org Janet Axelrod, Lynne Cohen, Todd Weeks Monica Davis, Pete Donovan, Elise Frawley, Kyle Hoyt, Morris LOCAL 802 MUSICIANS HEALTH FUND Kainuma, Caryl Paisner, Bobby Shankin AdministratOR Body Tuning & Gloria McCormick TRIAL BOARD Cenovia Cummins, Sylvia D’Avanzo, ALLEGRO Physical Javier Gándara, Bill Hayes, Mikael Elsila (Editor, Advertising Joanna Maurer, Mary Ann McSweeney, Manager and Graphic Designer) Therapy Warren Odze, Louise Owen, Dan Peck HEADQUARTERS: 322 West 48th Street, invites you to DELEGates TO AFM CONVENTION New York, NY 10036 Adam Krauthamer, Pete Donovan, Phone: (212) 245-4802 Javier Gándara, Bill Hayes, Dean LeBlanc, Caryl Paisner Web site: www.Local802afm.org DELEGates TO NEW YORK City OFFICE HOURS: Daily 9:30 a.m. to CENTRAL LABOR COUNCIL 5:30 p.m., except Saturdays, Sundays, Adam Krauthamer, Bill Hayes, and holidays Caryl Paisner DUES WINDOW closes at 3 p.m. DELEGates TO NEW YORK State AFL-CIO CHECKS WINDOW closes at 4:30 p.m. Adam Krauthamer, Lynne Cohen (5:30 p.m. on Wednesdays) DELEGate TO UNITED HEBREW TRADES ALLEGRO (ISSN 0002-5704) is published Bobby Shankin monthly (except for a combined July/ SupervisinG OFFICERS August issue) at an annual subscription Adam Krauthamer: Radio City, rate of $30 for non-members in the U.S. Lincoln Center Orchestras, Theatres, and $35 out of country, by Local 802, Organizing Associated Musicians of Greater New York, Use breath and Karen Fisher: Single Engagement 322 West 48th Street, New York, NY 10036. movement as we work Concerts, Symphony, Opera, Ballet, Periodicals postage paid at New York, NY Music Performance Trust Fund and additional offices (USPS #013-880). 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Benefits can with the New York City Central Labor for their relentless hard work and be accessed by first applying for Council and its President Vincent PRESIDENT’S dedication on behalf of their fellow unemployment at https://www. Alvarez. On the federal level we have 802 members. For obvious reasons, usa.gov/unemployment . been in contact with the officers of both REPort negotiating in the midst of an unfolding l The IRS has already started Representative Nadler and Senator ADAM KRAUTHAMER crisis has been hard for everyone. mailing out Economic Impact Schumer. Some employers have gone above Checks; check your status at Our collective action as a union last and beyond the contract to support www.irs.gov. month helped make sure the CARES musicians through this tough time. l Many 802 members have been Act covered our most vulnerable Other employers have used this crisis able to teach lessons online and members who aren’t traditionally [email protected] to completely overlook the important even participate in meaningful eligible for unemployment benefits. (212) 245-4802, ext. 100 contributions 802 musicians make to remote recording projects, Right now to preserve our members’ their organizations on a daily basis. some of which we’ve shared healthcare and the 802 health fund, Please rest assured that we keep all of on our Facebook page at www. we’re calling on Congress to provide S WE CONTINUE to adapt to our you – every musician at every job – at Facebook.com/Local802AFM. a 100% COBRA subsidy in the next transformed lives and careers, the forefront of these negotiations. l Our Local 802 staff has been stimulus package. A 100% COBRA I want to give you an update There are a few bright spots to report: working diligently for you in subsidy would provide anyone on the Aon how Local 802 is also whatever ways we can. Despite 802 health plan with full coverage at no adapting and working hard to best serve l We have released $100,000 the fact that our building is shut cost if you were to fall off the 802 plan our members during this difficult time. in new funding from our 802 down, several of our key staff in in September. Send a pre-written letter All performance work has stopped Emergency Relief Fund as well as the Electronic Media Department to your reps now by going to this site: and our community of 802 musicians is a new ERF website and Facebook – including Recording Vice https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ in survival mode. Without a doubt, this page. We are also launching a President Andy Schwartz and tell-congress-to-subsidize-cobra- is the biggest crisis Local 802 has ever video campaign featuring 802 his team (Cathy Calabrese, Steve during-the-pandemic faced. Like many other organizations, members called Songs of Support Singer, Bob Pawlo, Alex Blake Even as we’re bombarded by change, the Local 802 Executive Board had to to help fundraise for the ERF. See and Amoh Essandoh) – have we can take comfort in knowing that make the hard decision to place a large https://erf.local802afm.org donned safety masks and come the fundamentals of our lives retain part of our 802 staff on emergency (as well as photo on front cover!) to work to process checks that their same value. Our relationships leave until a more normal business l With many members starting to are owed our members from with one another and the love we have environment resumes. This was done use new technology to record, recording projects that took for our friends, family and community after careful consideration focusing on teach and flex their creative place before the shutdown. See are invulnerable. Our actual creativity the need for long-term fiscal stability so muscles while quarantined at page 5 for photos. – the core essence of why we became that together as a union we can survive home, Local 802’s Electronic l This issue of Allegro contains musicians – is still very real and cannot this crisis. Music Committee has stepped up many more resources for you, be destroyed. Our society is fragile right At this very moment we are all as and is consulting with members including inspiring stories from now, but our humanity will grow even a community making sacrifices to who want to learn new tech. See our members about how they’re stronger. prevent further loss. Many of you https://emc.local802afm.org. adapting. I want Local 802 members to know already know musicians and other l The CARES Act passed by that the union is doing everything loved ones who have passed away due Congress includes benefits that We continue to reach out to our possible to help our members during to complications of the coronavirus. can help our members who are contacts at the local, state and federal this crisis. In this unprecedented time, Please see our obituaries on page 36. paid as employees with W-2’s, level to make sure our members’ needs there is one certainty: we have more Even before workplace shutdowns and it also provides payment to are being addressed. At a local level, strength when we act together. That is began, we were working with your those not traditionally eligible we have good friends at the Mayor’s the true power of a union, and together individual employers to ensure that, for unemployment benefits Office of Media and Entertainment, we will get through these tough times.