Issue: October 2014
Atlanta Locked Out At midnight, September 6, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra musicians found themselves locked out for the second time in two years. Management of the ASO/WAC (Woodruff Art Center, the parent corporation) issued a Last, Best and Final proposal to the negotiating committee by email on September 5, and a subsequent counterproposal was dismissed as “inadequate.” Health insurance is … [Read more...]
Issue: June 2013
At the beginning of April, musicians and management of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra reached agreement on a new two-year contract. The musicians’ negotiating committee supplied the details that follow. After unilaterally declaring an impasse in September 2012, management imposed a 20% reduction in base salaries and reduced the season from 37 to 33 weeks. The musicians filed a bad faith … [Read more...]
Issue: November 2012
Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Steve Lester, Members Committee Chairman The contentious and stalled negotiations between the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association and the musicians of the CSO, represented by the Chicago Federation of Musicians, Local 10-208, resulted in a brief strike that affected only one service, a concert on Saturday, September 22. A new contract was agreed to on Monday, … [Read more...]
Issue: June 2011
Virginia Symphony musicians performed in a benefit concert on April 14th to support relief efforts of the Red Cross in Japan. The chamber music event was titled “Benefit Concert for Tomodachi” (友達, or tomodachi, being Japanese for “friend” or “friends”). The VSO currently employs five natives of Japan: three performing musicians, a librarian, and a conducting associate. This collaboration included … [Read more...]
Issue: March 2011
We might not have been able to call ourselves by name because of our management’s attorney’s allegation that use of the name “Louisville Orchestra Musicians’ Association” is a violation of our contract. Instead, we answered to code names such as “Major orchestra across the Ohio River from Jeffersonville, Indiana” and “Musicians from our Nation’s Capital Orchestra.” But something amazing happened … [Read more...]
Issue: December 2010
Fred Zenone was ICSOM’s fifth chairman, serving from 1980 to 1986. Before becoming chairman, he served four years as Eastern area vice-chairman and two years as ICSOM vice-chairman. Some of the most notable accomplishments in ICSOM’s history were made during Fred’s time in office. Under his leadership ICSOM built coalitions and expanded liaisons with the AFM, the Major Orchestra Managers … [Read more...]
Issue: October 2008
The North Carolina Symphony began its season with an outdoor Labor Day concert broadcast on local television. The September schedule included a celebration of Raleigh’s new convention center, with the premier of a composition by Robert Ward titled “City of Oaks”. Delegate Beth Lunsford reports that the orchestra will record Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Yevgeny Sudbin as soloist in November. … [Read more...]
