Please share, foward, repost our updated Louisville Orchestra email blast.

Statement by Bruce Ridge, ICSOM Chairman via the AFM website:

"Both the Louisville Orchestra, Inc. and the Kentucky Opera have been placed
on the American Federation of Musicians' (AFM) International Unfair List,
and accepting work from these two groups could generate fines and penalties.

But it is not just the Unfair List that should deter anyone from accepting
this work--the fact is that it would simply be wrong to do so."  Read more...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 22, 2011
Contact: Honore Stockley
(315) 422-4488 ext. 104
honore@bentley-hall.com

The American Federation of Musicians (AFM) has placed the Louisville Orchestra on its "Unfair List," following the orchestra’s emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy without a collective bargaining agreement. At an August 15 court hearing, Judge David Stosberg approved the orchestra’s reorganization plan, effectively bringing it out of bankruptcy. The AFM had opposed the plan, citing the fact that it is not viable without employed musicians. Read more...

Music National Service aka MusicCorp supports music as a strategy for public good. Launched in 2009 in only four US cities, the city of Seattle is happily represented in this “musical Peace Corps”. MusicianCorps recruits, trains and places musicians in high-need settings in order to strengthen communities, develop 21st century skills (like teamwork, discipline, perseverance, risk-taking, critical thinking, etc.) and spread music wherever music can reach, teach or heal.

"Congress may take books, musical compositions and other works out of the public domain, where they can be freely used and adapted, and grant them copyright status again, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday..." Read more

The AFM applauds the passage of the FAA Bill that sets a consistent national policy allowing musical instruments on airplanes  AFM Press Release