Senza Sordino: 1968

Volume 6, #2 - January 1968
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Topics:

San Francisco Out 49 Days: Solid Orchestra Makes Great Gains
Editor, Secretary Apologize - for lateness of issue, other errors
Toronto Gets $50, 12 Weeks: 3 Year Agreement
Increases For Vancouver Symphony
New Projects Broached As ICSOM Board Meets With Kenin, Ballard - strike fund proposed, symphony man on Federation level, right of ratification, committee participation in negotiations, Danielson case, five-day week, steward policy, negotiation seminar

Volume 6, #3 - February 1968
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Topics:

New York Philharmonic Negotiations ­ Pacesetting Contract
Editor's Report - Scenario for the Future
Dean Dixon Quits Post in Protest - Dixon leaves post of director of the Sydney Symphony as a "gesture on behalf of the welfare of the orchestra."
Treasurer's Report
History of Dallas Negotiations
Congress Considers $17 million - NEA funding
Warning: Beware of Offers - Honolulu Symphony musicians protest misleading ad in International Musician

Volume 6, #4 - April 1968
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Topics:

American Players in European Orchestras Reveal Conditions
ICSOM Chart - wages and working conditions
Second Gag Attempt in New Haven Musicians' Union
Letter from Vance Beach
New Zealand Orchestra Provides Sabbaticals for Musicians

Volume 6, Supplement - Summer 1968
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Topics:

Green Light to Conductor Ratings - ICSOM to go ahead with conductor evaluation project
Detroit to Host 1968 ICSOM Meet: Sipser, ICSOM Lawyer, to Attend
Close Links with AFM as Conference Status Approaches
San Francisco Opera Three Year Pact

Volume 7, #1 - October 1968
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Topics:

ICSOM Strengthens AFM Ties
Baltimore Orchestra Strikes for Pay, Longer Season, Pension
Historical Parallel? - Boston series in Philadelphia, Philly series in Baltimore
Treasurer's Report
Cincinnati Out Four Weeks
Boston to New High, $14,000, Many Gains
ICSOM Selects Labor Lawyer - Sipser retained by ICSOM
Bylaws Amendments
Letters - on nonviolence, collecting dues
Congress OK's $6 Million for Arts
St. Louis to Play Four Weeks
The Ray Still Case
The Bob Danielson Case

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Violinists Steven Copes and Ruggero Allifranchini with cellist Ronald Thomas