Volumes 21-40 | Volumes 41-present
- Editorial - Introduction to Senza
- Four Orchestra Symposiums- orchestras meet to form ICSOM
- Excerpt from Symposium Minutes - formation of Senza
- Boston Symphony Blends Art, Social Gains
- Canon à Deux - Chicago, Los Angeles share a negotiation
- Firing Points Up Symphony Woes Philadelphia musicians assail discharge of older violinist
- Petrillo Regime out; Reform In!
- News Items
- Notable Quote Department Skrowaczewski compares musicians to birds
- Editorial - Senza finances, introduction to wagechart
- Compliments from an Unexpected Source reprint from newsletter of AFM Local 161
- Unemployment Compensation
- Interview - Wolfgang Klopf makes the trains run on time
- Wage Chart 1962-63
- Tour Canceled in Pay Dispute with Orchestra Philadelphia doesn't go to South America
- The Vanishing Victory - Chicago musicians battle with Petrillo's successors
- Orchestra Members' Committees - a list
- News Items
- Letters
- Announcement of Orchestra Symposium
- Editorial - Cleveland musicians fight for right to ratify
- A Communication to the McClellan Committee letter from Cleveland musicians proposing Federal legislation to guarantee the right of ratification to union members
- More Trouble in Cleveland - history of fight to gain right to ratify agreements
- Clarence Darrow on Labor
- Orchestra Members' Committees- a list
- Wage Chart 1962-63 - continued
- Letters
- News Items
- Financial Summary
- ICSOM Comes of Age
- Editorial - the role of ICSOM
- Orchestra News - Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Cincinnati, National
- New Phonograph Record Agreement
- Orchestra Committeemen 1963-64 Season
- Editorial: A Deeper Look at Symphony Problems
- Orchestra News - Kansas City, Dallas, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Houston, Chicago
- National Symphony on Strike management cancels season
- San Antonio Imbroglio
- Editorial - ICSOM Meeting
- Orchestra News - Houston, New York Philharmonic, Denver, National
- Et Tu, 802? - Met Opera musicians unhappy with Local 802's negotiation of their contract
- Editorial - advocating better boards, more professionalism in management, and an AFM symphonic department
- Rockefeller Fund Report
- Two Views of Technical Perfection
- Orchestra News - Montreal, Israel, Monte Carlo
- Indianapolis Symphony Negotiations
- Report on 1965 Annual Meeting in Toronto
- Art Subsidy Bill Signed into Law
- St. Louis Contract Still Incomplete
- Chairman's Message - Review ICSOM Progress, Goals
- Highlights of Chicago Symphony Contract
- Explanation of Arts Act by Rep. Frank Thomas
- Text of New Arts Act
- Symphony Is Another Great Chicago First - reprint
- Chairman's Report - More Personnel Needed to Avoid Player Fatigue
- Account of St. Louis Negotiations
- Study Proves Musicians Are Hard-working
- Grant Given to Chicago Symphony University Concerts
- Dominican Orchestra Is Playing Again - after civil war
- Chicago Symphony Celebrates 75th Anniversary
- Symphony Manager Named in Milwaukee
- Cleveland Musicians Encouraged by Local 4
- Election Results
- Swiss Symphony Plans US Debut This Summer
- 1965-66 Wage Chart
- Minneapolis Symphony Signs Five-Year Contract
- Report on New Federal Education Programs
- Bylaws Changes to be Voted On
- AFM President Kenin Answers ICSOM Questions on New Federal Programs
- ICSOM Makes Headlines - news reports about ICSOM
- Poetry Corner - To a Convalescing First Chair Player
- Former Symphony Conductor Dies - Rudolf Reiner obituary
- Letters to the Editor - to St. Louis Globe from clarinetist
- Honor Cincinnati Symphony Trip - UN Ambassador hosts Carnegie concert
- Peoria Symphony Given High Praise
- Pittsburgh Signs Steinberg for Three Years
- AFM President Kenin Praises Ford Foundation Grant
- Chairman's Message: Consider Role of Personnel Manager
- ICSOM Executive Committee Meets with AFM President Kenin
- Secretary's Report: ICSOM Adds New Members
- Special Meeting of the AFM IEB Held in New York
- Swiss Miss to Assist Bernstein with the Philharmonic - Sylvia Caduff hired as assistant
- Saslav Named as Concertmaster for Minneapolis
- Kennedy Center Construction Begins
- Boston Symphony Group to Visit West Coast
- Chicago Symphony Signs Three-Year RCA Contract
- Nadien Named as Concertmaster of New York Philharmonic
- Britain Ups Aid to Arts by One-Third
- Alfred Brain Obituary
- New Opera Company Formed on West Coast
- London Symphony to Play Series at Florida
- International Music Festival
- Shaw Named Music Director in Atlanta
- Detroit Settles on New Three-Year Contract
- Is This County A Cultural Desert? - excerpted from broadcasts of Edward P. Morgan
- The Philadelphia Story - letter to the public from Philadelphia musicians, unanimous strike vote, statement from musicians
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Negotiations
- Letters
- A Cultural First? - Baltimore plays at Orioles game
- Editor's Report - introducing new format
- Treasurer's Report
- Secretary's Report - attends ASOL conference
- Musicians' Union Tells Local To Allow Criticism In Ranks - New Haven local informed of the existence of the First Amendment
- Rockefeller Urges Arts Council for Business David Rockefeller speaks on corporate support for the arts
- ASOL's view of Symphony Negotiations - ex-flutist becomes management negotiator, tells managements how
- Publications Review
- On Strike Through Summer, Indianapolis Stays Out Three Weeks
- Kansas City Up From $115
- Los Angeles Dispute Settled - three week lockout stirs local support
- Two Month Strike Ended, Philadelphia Makes Gains
- New York City Ballet Musicians Settle
- Met Orchestra Threatens Strike, Gets Finalized Contract
- Editor's Report: "In Union There Is Strength"
- Treasurer's Report
- Notice - unused strike funds contributed to National and St. Louis turned over to ERF
- Indianapolis Raided During Strike - 23 musicians leave
- Roy Cox Tells ICSOM History, Goals former ICSOM Secretary addresses ASOL Convention
- Telegram of Thanks to Stokowski . . . And His Reply
- Ford Foundation Makes Massive Grants to Symphonies
- Chairman's Comments
- Washington International Arts Letter
- Cincinnati World Tour
- Wage Chart 1966-67
- Labor Department Glum in Employment Outlook
- Guest Editorial: The String Shortage - Does This Really Exist?
- Letter from Executive VP of ASOL
- Israeli Symphony Will Play Wagner
- Lebanese Denounce Cincinnati Players Lebanese press claims orchestra is "Zionist"
- Review - "Behind the Baton"
- Opera Tour Orchestra Saluted - Senza thanks members of Met company who signed petition in support of Indianapolis musicians
- ICSOM Chairman Reports on AFM Meetings:
- Discussion Nixed, Reaction Mixed
- ICSOM Bylaws Amendments
- Reviews - Union Democracy in America and Commitment to Culture
- Treasurer's Report
- ICSOM's 1966 Conference Covers Vital Issues, Future Actions
- Conductor Questionnaire Stirs Wide Interest conductor evaluation program begins
- Draft Conductor Evaluation Sheet
- International Exchange Program - musicians from
- Boston and Japan Philharmonic exchange places for a season
- St. Louis Starts Newsletter
- Chicago Sideman's Bulletin on Symphony Conductors
- ICSOM Chairman Testifies at Senate Copyright Hearings
- Some AFM Convention Highlights
- Pickets Cause Concert Cancellation, Orchestra Refuses to Cross Line - Baltimore musicians docked
- Chicago Bulletin Comments on Lyric Opera Lockout
- Local Union Signs Contract, Violates Own Bylaws,
- Cleveland Players to Sue
- New York Contract Extended: Players to Finish Tour
- More Reports on 1966 ICSOM Conference Personnel Manager and Shop Steward, Article 22 Provokes Debate, Ford Monies Discussed, Long Seasons Contracts Have Pitfalls, Danielson Case Discussed
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Senza Sordino Salutes Buffalo Musicians Summer Program in Core Area
- Wage Chart 1968-69
- Baltimore Orchestra Settles: Final Year 38 Weeks at $210
- What is ICSOM and How Did It Come Into Being?
- ICSOM Advises AFM - recording contract
- San Antonio Problems Continue
- Honolulu Dismisses 28 From Positions
- Violinist and Reviewer Suggest Resumption of Musical Olympics
- All About Arbitration - cases in Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, Denver, Minneapolis,
- Kansas City
- Treasurer's Report
- More From Honolulu Symphony
- Rochester Rejects Contract
- Letters - help for black musicians, Chicago on tape, letter from Australia
- Reviews - "String Music in Print," Fortune Magazine on orchestra management
- Symps First-Round Pick Is Noted Slider Cincinnati drafts new trombonist
- ICSOM Holds Ninth Annual Meeting:
- AFM Conference Status Gained contract disputes, Sipser progress report, resolution
- supports San Antonio musicians, regional Vice-chairmen proposed, George Zazofsky resigns, ICSOM Board elections
- Australian Orchestras Must Cooperate - from Down Under
- On Participation - "The Teachers Strike," by Martin Mayer
- Treasurer's Report
- Letter from Cleveland Orchestra Committee
- Chairmen
- Government Subsidies Necessary
- How Some Unionists Cope
- Editor's Desk: Constructive Comment, Permanence vs. Crisis, Musician's Influence
- Nancy Hanks New Arts Council Chairman
- ICSOM Welcomes AFM Workshop
- Washington Review: Appointments, Appropriations, Lobbying / Tax Reform, More Music Money
- Bylaws Amendments
- News Notes
- Message from Chairman Sam Denov
- Orchestras in Negotiation - Metropolitan Opera, Kansas City, National Symphony Postpones Opener, Rochester Philharmonic in Fifth Week of Lockout, New York City Ballet Plays Joffrey,
- Buffalo Orchestra Starts Season, San Francisco Receives First Written Offer, Los Angeles Continues Negotiations, Seattle Settles, Portland Reaches Agreement
- Treasurer's Report
- Personnel Managers Meet
- AFM Appoints Symphony Assistant - Ted Dreher
- Pittsburgh Proposes Stop to Foreign Orchestra Residence in U.S.
- Pedal-Operated Metronome
- No Bones About it - bones found during renovation of Music Hall in Cincinnati
- Union Organization in Bulgaria
- Canada Cash - Council for the Arts awards
- News Notes
- Rochester Wins $50 First Year, Five Week Lockout Ends
- Union Board Extends Resources, Local President Pledges His Salary
- First Time in Labor?
- Local Stands Behind Players
- AFM Cooperates
- Chairman's Message
- Letter from Laurance Fader - need for strike fund
- Arbitration over Radio Fee
- Musicians and Vietnam - musicians support, oppose war
- Report on Denver Contract; Up $35 in Two Years, Union Backs Strong Members
- Los Angeles Tries Questionnaire, Reports Contract Gains, Tired of Lockouts / New Approach, Tours Improved, Money Package Last
- Tax Break Idea - Irish Republic offers tax exemption for original, creative work in the arts.
- ICSOM Funds Hit Low - general fund balance $104.07
- Symphony Presidents Meet
- Steering Committee for Federal Aid
- AFM Symphony Symposium: Negotiating Techniques Explored, Be Prepared, Get It in Writing / Be Informed, Money to Kansas City
- President Nixon Asks for $40 Million for National Arts
- Chairman's Message: Strike Fund Progress
- Form Letters to President Nixon, Senator Javits, others, supporting increasing funding for the NEA
- Editor's Desk: On Money
- Washington National Symphony Signs New Contract: Six Week Strike, Lawyer, AFM,
- ICSOM Lauded, Orchestra, Negotiators Praised
- ICSOM Welcomes Chicago Lyric
- Metropolitan Opera Negotiations: Longest Lockout for Musicians: August 26 to December 4
- Bulgarian Symphonies Working Conditions
- Chicago Site For 1970 ICSOM Meeting
- Chairman's Message - Denov on the strike fund
- Cambodian Crisis Spurs Musician's Peace Efforts
- Wage Chart 1969-70
- Fired San Antonio Musicians File Suit
- Wherefore Art Thou, Bulletin Board?
- Secretary of Labor Files Suit Against San Antonio
- Local, Asks For New Election
- Letters - No Need for ICSOM?
- News Notes - Detroit rockers, Cincinnati jazzers
- Chairman's Message: Strike Fund Procedures, New York, Chicago Coordinate Negotiations
- Cleveland on Strike
- ICSOM Holds 11th Annual Meeting - strike fund, AFM Symphony Symposium, San Antonio
- New Conductor Evaluation Sheet
- A Calendar of Calumny - San Antonio musician activists harassed by management, conductor, local
- New Orchestra Contracts - Buffalo, Chicago, New York, New Haven, Montreal, Minnesota,
- NYC Opera
- Editor's Desk - ICSOM's accomplishments, things that might have been
- Chairman's Message - response to article in Saturday Review
- New Members in ICSOM Orchestras
- Vice-Chairman Reports - ICSOM begins bulletins
- The "Put-Down" Corner - trumpets, horns duke it out in LA
- Letters - Boston musician reports on lobbying efforts
- ICSOM Treasury Low Again
- Senza Sordino Financial Report 1969-70
- The Power of Rock - plants subjected to rock music wither
- Senior Citizen Concerts - Los Angeles institutes discount
- Editor's Desk - orchestra musicians and the union
- San Antonio Votes to Withdraw from ICSOM
- ICSOM, AFM to Cooperate - AFM, ICSOM to work on wage chart
- Cleveland Disappointed - Cleveland accepts inferior contract to New York and Chicago after long strike
- Montreal Pleased - planning committee established, new contract negotiated
- Senza Sordino Puzzler - crossword puzzle
- The International Sports Scene - NY Philharmonic plays Japan Philharmonic, game ends in 3-3 tie
- The National Sports Scene - Pittsburgh beats Philadelphia 28-9, offers rematch
- International Discords - Kogan, Shostakovich refuse to appear with Pittsburgh because of "defector" in orchestra, St. Louis musicians voice support for Rostropovich
- Chairman's Message - Partnership for the Arts
- Partnership Quotes
- Seattle Symphony: Innocent Victim or Jonah? tour quake
- Canadian Orchestras Confer
- French Manager on Murder as Cause for Termination
- An Open Letter to the AFM - AFM should fund ICSOM
- Cincinnati violinist helps young Uruguayan musicians
- Senza Sordino Puzzler
- Editor's Desk - supporting Partnership for the Arts
- AFM Symphony Strike Fund - 24 orchestras participate
- Government Aid in the State of Washington
- AFM Hosts Symphony Symposium
- Chicago Breaks a Tradition: Contract Outlaws Permanent String Chairs
- Honolulu Symphony Negotiates
- Flash - SF Opera contract ratified
- Editor's Desk - Robert Jones requests subscription
- Chairman's Message - AFM symposium, orchestral leadership, Partnership for the Arts
- Senza Sordino Puzzler - crossword puzzle
- ICSOM's 12th Annual Conference - agenda
- $30 Million Funding Goal Near - NEA bill progresses
- Seattle Welcomes ICSOM Delegates - letter from Seattle musicians
- Texans First With Mostest - Houston musicians make gains
- A Dixie Serenade - New Orleans orchestra president nominated for local loving cup award
- Denver and ICSOM Both Losers - Denver delegate resigns to return to school
- Houston Musicians Choose (?) New Conductor - conductor evaluations help Houston musicians find Music Director
- Senza Sordino Puzzler - crossword puzzle
- UN Harmony at Last? - proposal to form UN Symphony Orchestra
- LA Nixes Bad Manuscript - LA musicians refuse to play illegible Ives symphony
- Defector's Chair - two Warsaw 'cellists press "Eject"
- Twelve Years Old and Still Growing - ICSOM Conference
- New Canadian Area Established - fifth ICSOM region
- Recording Committee Appointed - recording, cable, video
- Chairman's Recommendations - Senza to go to music students, paper on orchestral careers, speakers bureau, orchestra lobbies, funding
- Sipser Lectures on Bargaining - discusses wage-price freeze
- Digest of Treasurer's Report, Senza Financial Report
- Introducing the Atlanta Symphony
- ICSOM Acts on Wage Freeze - letter to Nixon
- Honolulu Ratifies Pact
- Take Three Giant Steps Backwards - management proposals
- New York City Opera Orchestra First With Cable TV Contract
- Philadelphia Acts on Wage Freeze
- Seattle Inks Unusual Pact - sets up joint committee
- About Those Conductor Evaluations . . . send 'em in!
- Dallas Lockout Ends - complete with cartoon
- Two Pennants Fly in Pittsburgh - Mahlers beat NY Penguins
- ICSOM's Wandering Minstrels - musicians jump orchestras
- ICSOM Welcomes the Oregon Symphony
- Meet Ralph Mendelson - ICSOM Chair
- Who Chooses Our Conductors? The Cleveland Story - Maazel hired over objections of musicians
- Chicago Triumphs At Home and Abroad
- Report From Milwaukee - orchestra makes Carnegie debut
- Welcome to Winnipeg - orchestra joins ICSOM
- Settlement in San Antonio - discharged musicians drop suit
- Bob Maisel: Secretary of ICSOM
- San Francisco Inks One-Year Pact: 18% Gain Despite Freeze
- Stalemate in Baltimore and Indianapolis - orchestras strike
- Who Chooses Our Conductors? A Report from Boston - ICSOM evaluations prove effective, Ozawa picked
- Nuggets from Montreal - contract clauses
- The Editor's Desk - on negotiations, conductor evaluations
- Stephen Goble Obituary - Milwaukee musician
- Harold Laudenslager Obituary - former ICSOM secretary
- Stress and Musicianship - reprint from "Das Orchester"
- ICSOM Stalwarts - on Smiley, Shaw, and Weaver
- Two Year Pact Signed in St. Louis
- One Strike Settled: Two Suspended - Cincinnati settles, mayors intercede in Indianapolis and Baltimore
- Honolulu Insures Its Contract - musicians help raise money
- Note to a Maestro - poem on desire of string section to leave
- ICSOM's Past Leadership - Zazofsky, Raffaelli, Denov
- A Tale of Two Cities - Seattle musicians distribute
- statement of support for Baltimore, Comissiona contributes fee
- The Chairman's Message - Partnership for the Arts
- Montreal to Host 1972 Conference
- Conference Agenda
- Book Reviews - "Bach, Beethoven and Bureaucracy,"
- "Hollywood Studio Musicians"
- Tax Sheltered Annuities
- Message from Chairman Ralph Mendelson
- Met Avoids Strike
- ICSOM Holds Its Annual Conference
- Canadian Arts Council Sets Pace for United States
- Detroit Signs 40-Month Contract
- Oregon Symphony Locked Out: Local 99 Files NLRB Suit
- Strike Fund Report - disbursements to Cleveland, Dallas, Baltimore, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati musicians use up much of Strike Fund
- Editor's Report
- An "Age" Old Story - ICSOM Conference resolution against mandatory retirement clauses
- You Can Beat City Hall - Rochester board overthrown, new board agrees to interim contract with musicians
- Milwaukee Inks Two Year Contract
- Indianapolis Signs After 25 Weeks Without a Contract
- Oregon Symphony Reaches Settlement
- Pittsburgh Signs in August
- From the Editor's Desk - reply to article by Paul Hume entitled "Time off with Pay for Orchestra Musicians"
- Philly Avoids Work Stoppage
- A Report From Vienna - on European orchestras
- National Symphony Settlement
- Vance Beach Elected to Local Office - Local 47 post
- Pollution in the Pit - truck fumigates Australian orchestra
- Czech Team Measures Musician Stress - study demonstrates physiological reactions to performance- related stress
- Now All Share the Load - Dallas local makes strike fund and ICSOM dues mandatory for all DSO musicians
- A Water-What? - percussionist nearly derailed by goldfish
- Nine New Faces in Denver - musicians join orchestra
- From the Editor's Desk - Philadelphia musician battles mandatory retirement at age 65
- Memo - NYC Opera musicians banned from practicing at NY State Theater
- Recording Symposium Held
- Conference Dates Set
- Inauguration '73: Philly Goes to Washington
- San Francisco Symphony Approves 3-Year Contract
- Canadian Registered Retirement Plan Reduces
- Musician Taxes
- The Sangerfest: Choral Mind-Blowing
- Quest for a Living Wage: Ten Years of Progress
- Ten Year Survey of Symphony Orchestra Salaries: Part 1
- From the Editor's Desk - street musicians and orchestra splitting
- At the Bargaining Table - list of 20 orchestras
- Houston Symphony Locked Out
- Arts Bill Passes Senate; Goes to House
- Letter from Fred Batchelder - urging ICSOM to oppose the Vietnam war
- Orchestra Splitting Studied
- Raoul Berger Now Plays a Different Tune - one-time assistant concertmaster of Cincinnati meets with Watergate Senate investigative committee
- The Francis Henrickson Case: A Study in Calumny - lawsuit on behalf of Atlanta musician settled out of court
- Ten Year Survey of Symphony Orchestra Salaries -Part 2
- AFM Rules on Recording Charges
- Philly Orchestra To Visit China
- ICSOM's 14th Annual Conference To Be Held
- Houston Symphony Lockout Ends: Timetable of Events, the Settlement
- ICSOM Holds Annual Conference
- ICSOM Committee Studies Orchestra Splitting
- Minnesota Musicians Defend Colleague
- David Smiley Obituary - Vice-Chairman of ICSOM
- St. Louis Contract Contains Recording Guarantee
- Cleveland Symphony Orchestra Wins ICSOM Support
- Beware! The Year of the Test: the NYC Opera Negotiates
- Dallas Signs One Year Contract
- Chicago Lockout Ended
- Denver Locked Out: Signs One Year Agreement
- Letter from George Zazofsky - on the death of David Smiley
- Jim Weaver Obituary - ICSOM Western Area Representative
- Honolulu Members Ratify Three-Year Agreement
- The Musicians of the New York Philharmonic Will
- Perform Tonight in Lisbon - advertisement from the musicians appearing in the New York Times
- New York Philharmonic Negotiations
- New Jersey Symphony Wages Reduced Over 50%
- The Philadelphia Story: East Meets West - tour of China
- Montreal Solves Financial Dilemma
- United Front and Skillful Negotiating Avert Strike in Cleveland
- A Study in Unity - St. Louis refuses to resume rehearsal until arbitrary and unfair actions of management against members of the bass section rectified
- Syracuse Negotiates A Transitional Contract
- North Carolina Inks One Year Pact
- Cincinnati Fills String Positions - Ruder, Schotten hired
- Cleveland Walks Negotiation Tightrope
- Letter from Cleveland Orchestra Committee -thanking ICSOM for support
- Cleveland Council Supports Orchestra Members -friendship between City Council and members of the orchestra
- The Press Speaks Out - press coverage in Cleveland
- Cleveland Orchestra on Tour of Hawaii, New Zealand and Australia
- The Puerto Rico Symphony: Where Do We Go From Here?
- Minnesota Reports Last Fall Negotiations
- Dallas Citizens Ponder, Major Symphony Orchestra or Not?
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra Audition Policies
- Too Many English Horns - letter proposing replacing English horns in Montreal Symphony with French horns to better represent cultural needs of the French community of Montreal
- Buffalo "Streakers" Issue A Challenge - orchestra track club
- Detroit Pension Benefits Increased
- Pittsburgh Premieres McCulloh Work - composition of orchestra member
- 1973-74 Symphony Wage Chart
- A Little Game of Strings and Things - article from Industrial Research Magazine on wood for violin-making
- Cologne Chamber Orchestra Visits Indy - members of Indianapolis Symphony protest foreign orchestra residency during summer unemployment period
- Lyric Opera Signs Three Year Pact
- ICSOM Delegates to Meet in New Orleans
- Oregon Hosts Philly Members
- Next Step: The Big League! - Cincinnati , Indianapolis musicians play seven-inning prelude to real ball game
- ASAV Is Formed - formation of American Society for the Advancement of Violin Making in New York
- New Orleans Benefits From ICSOM Participation
- San Francisco Committee to Explain Non-renewal Fracas
- Dallas: The Malady Lingers On
- "Carmen" Disrupts ICSOM Conference - conference ends early to avoid playing Hurricane Carmen
- Wilfred Batchelder Obituary - Philadelphia bassist
- Message from Chairman Irving Segall
- Symphony Bassist Selected by National Endowment
- For The Arts - Roger Ruggeri appointed to NEA Panel
- Atlanta Ends Two Day Strike
- Cincinnati Inks New Pact
- Winds of Change: Part 1- discussion of future of orchestras
- Dallas Symphony Association, Musicians Settle Past Wage Issue
- From the Editor - thanking Ralph Mendelson for contributions as ICSOM Chairman
- Montreal Working Under One Year Agreement
- Cleveland Musicians Say "It Was As Much As One Could Bare" - Hollywood Bowl concert invaded by five streakers, pianist has shocking experience
- North Carolina Accepts Three Year Agreement
- National Orchestra Association Seeks Alumni
- To Play or Not To Play - problems with outdoor concerts
- Denver Symphony Locked Out - agreement reached after settlement, musicians rejected by Board of Trustees
- Winds of Change: Part 2
- San Diego Musicians "Pay" For Poor Management
- Secretary's Message
- Jack Benny, Violinist, Passes
- Kansas City Performs at Leavenworth
- Dallas Siege Ends
- ICSOM Executive Board Meets in Chicago
- Creation of an Associate Membership in ICSOM for Canadian Orchestras
- Bob Jones, Oregon, Plugs Workshop Session
- Metropolitan Opera Report - request for help fighting management proposal of 10% cut in salaries
- Advocates for the Arts
- 1974-75 Symphony Wage Chart
- Date Set for ICSOM Conference in August
- Buffalo Joggers At It Again
- Strike Fund Trustees Meet
- ERF Gets a Boost
- Classical Record Producers Sing a Merry Tune
- The American and European Orchestra: A Comparative Study - Salary, Benefits and Pension, Medical Benefits, Sabbaticals, Everyday Working Conditions, Touring, Ensemble Splitting
- Philly Arbitration Threatens Tour
- Copyright Reform Tough Sledding Ahead
- Conference Time Nears
- Met Team Rejects Management Proposal
- International Viola Congress to Meet
- IRS Alters Audition Expense Position - ruling that audition expenses are deductible whether or not applicant wins
- The American and European Orchestra: A Comparative Study, Part 2 - Audition Procedures, Ethics in Audition Procedure, The Conductor's Role, Civil Service and Performance Standards
- Isometrics are Victors - rematch between Cincinnati and Indianapolis musician softball teams
- Stressed Musicians - New England Journal of Medicine
- A Letter from Yuriko - letter from widow of David Smiley
- Government Aid For The Arts / The Dilemma: A Starvation Budget
- Form Letter to Senators
- Oregon Contract Settled: Growth Continues
- Representative Fred Richmond, Hal Davis toAddress ICSOM Parlay
- The ICSOM Conference in Indianapolis - associate membership for Canadian orchestras, Zazofsky, audition procedure survey
- Pittsburgh Strikes
- HR 8274: The Richmond Bill - provides for income tax checkoffs for arts subsidies
- LA Symphony Discards the Penguin Look- LA settles three-year contract
- Philly Signs New Contract: Mandatory Retirement Extended to 67
- Hal Davis Addresses Conference - AFM president supports Richmond bill
- New ICSOM Officers Elected
- Kudos to Berns and Best - ICSOM officers resign
- Poetry Corner - Ted Dreher on negotiations
- Negotiations Highlighted by Lockouts, Strikes, Turmoil: Detroit Plays Lockout Concert, Met Settlement Deferred Until First of Year
- Orchestra Audition Survey
- Kansas City Philharmonic on Strike
- Death of An Orchestra: New Jersey Signs
- From the Editor - Second Violinists and Johann Strauss's 150th birthday (__ paa paa, __ paa paa)
- Baltimore Symphony Reaches Agreement
- All It Takes Is An Idea and Five Minutes - getting orchestra members to write to their Congressmen
- All Systems "Go!": Orchestras Back to Work - Pittsburgh Signs, Oakland Wins 9% Increase, San Francisco Symphony Signs After One-Day Lockout, National Negotiations Low-Key
- Book Review - The Professional Symphony Orchestra in the United States
- Kirke's Work Pays Off - Minnesota Orchestra musician convinces newspaper to write editorial on arts funding
- Play and Talk Result in Agreement for Met Orchestra
- Group Insurance Probe to Continue - investigation of group life and health insurance for ICSOM orchestras
- Montreal Signs Two Year Agreement
- Poetry Corner - poem by Ted Dreher lauding Philip Sipser
- Detroit's Nine-Week Lockout Ends
- Fiddler on Sabbatical - former ICSOM chair George Zazofsky is ICSOM's roving ambassador to foreign orchestras
- OCSM Is Born
- Musical Medicine - medical journal reprint
- And That's The Way It Was - sports writer covers symphony
- New Battle for NEA Funds Shaping Up
- Letter from New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Committee - disputing death of New Jersey Symphony
- Watch Out, Zubin! - Viking tackles conducting
- Syracuse Symphony Gets New Hall
- KC Reports Settlement
- Seattle Contract Report
- Montreal Tours Europe
- Let's Hear It For the Danes - Danish orchestra manager informs SS officer that Jewish musicians are all on sick leave; all receive back pay after Germans get boot
- ICSOM Conference in Denver
- Wage Chart 1975-76
- OCSM Wage Chart 1975-76
- A Torchbearer - Einar Hansen, violinist, dies
- Minnesota Musicians Vote Pension Concert Proceeds to Retirees
- Poetry Corner - Ted Dreher on conductors
- Trustees Vote $100 A Week Strike Fund Benefit
- Chicago Tops Marathons - Chicago Symphony raises $320,000 in radio marathon
- ICSOM Conference Guest Speakers Announced
- To Bow or Not To Bow - advocating free bowing
- The Candidates: Their Arts Support Record
- ICSOM Meeting with ASOL Conductors' Guild
- Christmas Week Off to Go the Way of the Carrier Pigeon?
- Oakland Musicians Sponsor Concerts
- "Katie" Komments on LA "Phil" Garmenture -discussing the wearing of tails
- The Fourteenth ICSOM Conference: A Year of Growth and Recognition
- Chicago Salaries Rise To $500 Per Week in '78-'79 Season
- Houston Trustees Lock Out Its Orchestra
- Chairman's Message
- Two-Year Symphony Pact Signed by Oregon Symphony
- Letter from Buffalo Musician - nixing free bowing
- Minnesota Orchestra Settles
- Indianapolis Signs in July
- Public Broadcast and Cable TV: More for the Arts Viewer?
- NYC Opera Ends 17-Day Strike
- Copyright Laws Revised: Performers' Rights Ignored
- Houston Back to Work: Work Stoppage Longest Ever
- St. Louis First with Sabbatical Leave
- Classic Record Sales Increase
- Dallas Signs Three Year Pact
- The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra: A Touch of Class
- 1976-77 Symphony Wage Chart
- Lilly Endowment Offers Special Challenge Grant to Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- North Carolina Symphony Rotation System Unique
- Hibernation of an Orchestra: New Jersey Symphony Since the Strike
- Foster Parents Minnesota Style
- A Ferry Tale Seattle Style
- ICSOM: An Investment to Protect
- Major Symphony Orchestra Survey: 1952-53
- Two Views on Technical Perfection - reprint from Vol. 3 #2
- A View of Conducting Technique - Piatigorsky speaks
- Conference Date Announced
- "Pardon Us" Department - corrections regarding salaries in Syracuse and Berlin
- Minnesota Musicians Perform at Inaugural
- Cincinnati Symphony Premieres Work by Frank Proto
- Birdland Concertgebouw - quote from Herman Kenin
- FM Listener Buying Preferences Surveyed
- To A Convalescing First Chair Player - poem by Harvey Rudoff, reprinted from the Music Journal, 1963
- Chicago Lyric Opera Signs Three Year Agreement
- Cleveland Orchestra Signs
- Fire Takes Lives of Six Cincinnati Area Musicians
- Conference Plans Announced
- Chicago Marathon Figure Tops $400,000
- Letter - from member of Israel Philharmonic
- Indianapolis Symphony Cellist Loses Arbitration Case
- Support for Richmond Bill Gaining Momentum
- European Orchestra Update
- Irving Segall Resting after Surgery
- Some Sobering Statistics - orchestra salaries and inflation
- Honolulu Reports
- ICSOM Members Invited to ASOL Convention
- Cow Brings More than Strad
- Some Thoughts on Arbitration
- A Message from the Chairman: Pick Your ICSOM Delegate with Care
- Comparison of Orchestra Pension Benefits: Part 1
- Cleveland Revisited: ICSOM's Sixteenth Conference
- Segall Reports to ICSOM Delegates
- Managers Speak at Conference
- Congressman Weiss Urges Legislation Outlawing Mandatory Retirement
- Denver Musicians Given Hatchet Job
- A Warm Welcome into ICSOM - impressions of new delegate
- Skrowaczewski to Leave Minnesota Orchestra
- Adrian Gnam Addresses Delegates
- Richmond Bill Gains Sponsors
- Metropolitan Opera Settlement Highest Orchestra Increase in Country
- The ICSOM Emergency Relief Fund
- Cincinnati Signs Three Year Agreement
- Milwaukee Agreement Signed
- North Carolina Ratifies New Pact
- HR 1042 Support Increases
- New Two Year Recording Pact Signed
- New Three Year Pact in Atlanta
- Denver Contract Hangs on "Survival Fund" Success
- Senza Sordino Widely Distributed
- Comparison of Orchestra Pension Benefits: Part 2
- AGMA Strikes NY Philharmonic
- Sounds from the Potomac - bassist serves on NEA panel
- Broadcasters Hiding Profits?
- On the Passing of Hal Davis
- 1977-78 Symphony Wage Chart
- New Orleans Again Strikeless
- Treacherous Weather KO's Midwest and Eastern Concerts
- Schippers Eulogy - from Cincinnati Symphony committee
- The Minority Orchestral Training Program
- Oakland Signs New Agreement
- Our Decibel Dilemma
- Letter - pacemaker restores rhythm to musician
- North Carolina Unique String Rotation System Working Well
- 1978 ICSOM Conference on West Coast
- More on Orchestral Assistance Programs: The Seattle Musicians Scholarship Program, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestral Training Program for Minority Students
- New Jersey Symphony Hit by Dismissals and Demotions
- Boston Plays and Talks: Signs Three Year Pact
- Grant Park Gets New Shell: ICSOM Orchestras Lend a Hand
- Music Assistance Fund Orchestral Fellowships Update
- Phoenix Ratifies New Three Year Agreement
- San Diego ICSOM Conference Agenda Set
- Looking at Ourselves in San Diego
- Symphony Playing Stressful Job, Says National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Team - ranked fifth most stressful in a list of 130 occupations
- ICSOM Conference to Host Pension Plan Seminar
- The Musician at 65: Will Fairness Prevail?
- Los Angeles Signs Three Year Pact
- President Fuentealba to Address ICSOM Conference
- Letters from former member of Buffalo Philharmonic, member of military band regarding noise levels
- Neville Marriner Named Music Director of Minnesota Orchestra
- Wanted: The Ideal Reader - article by critic
- Letter from the Editor - the state of Senza Sordino
- Honolulu Signs for Two Years
- Denver Musician Elected to Orchestra Board
- What's Happening Department
- The "Minority" Musician: An ICSOM Committee Report
- New ICSOM Officers Elected
- San Diego Hosts ICSOM Conference
- Vic Fuentealba Addresses Conference
- The Special Session Clause
- Pittsburgh Reaches Agreement
- Philadelphia's New Contract Nets Largest Increase over Three Years
- Lost and Found Department - request for back issues
- What's Happening Department
- The National Symphony Orchestra Strike -Rostropovich walks picket line with musicians, offers to play strike fund benefit concerts
- Boston Testing New Variation in String Section Rotation
- Wanted: Info on Acoustical Firms
- Detroit Plays, Talks and Signs
- San Antonio Symphony Wins Gains
- Measurement of Noisiness According to Loudness of Sound and Level of Concentration - jobs requiring high levels of concentration increase impact of noise levels
- Baltimore Inks Three Year Contract
- Changing the Way of Changing - ratification of bylaws change regarding bylaws changes
- NEA Challenge Grants Awarded
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendments Now Operable: The Effect of the Act on Pensions and Health and Welfare Plans
- The New Jersey Symphony Strike: The Search for Job Security
- ICSOM Research Assistant to be Hired
- Indianapolis Symphony Performs Haydn's Cremation
- 1978-79 Symphony Wage Chart
- Job Hunting Abroad ? There Could Be Problems
- Syracuse Musician Elected Head of Local 78
- Seattle Strike Ends
- Open Letter to Sherrill Milnes from Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Committee - urging him not to appear in performance in Seattle without orchestra
- ICSOM History Reviewed in Newly Published Handbook
- San Francisco Negotiation Long but Friendly
- The AFM- EPW Fund
- Three-Fourths of ICSOM Orchestras Now in Strike Fund
- House Lights On Again at Kennedy Center Opera
- Ralph Mendelson Passes
- ICSOM Conference in Minneapolis this Year
- The Swiss Symphony Musician: A Comparison of Employment Conditions
- Letter from Kennedy Center Orchestra Committee to Soviet Communist Party official - protesting detention of members of Moscow Philharmonic
- The Orchestra of Illinois is Born
- Conference Expense Now Picked Up by Thirty AFM Locals
- Letter - problems with annuity carrier in LA and SF
- Hubermann Strad Brings $300,000
- Houston Settlement Beats Deadline
- The AFM Convention: An Observer's Viewpoint
- Indianapolis Signs Three Year Contract
- Hiawatha's Fiddling - reprint from The Violinist, 1911
- So You Think the Concorde Is Loud - Philadelphia performs Crumb's "Star Child"
- Minority Program Wins Wide Acceptance
- Score: 15 to 4: Culture Wins! Battle to Save Symphony in Campanis, Brazil
- Canada Needs a Curtis or Julliard - letter from OCSM Chair
- Kennedy Center Employees Stand United - Kennedy Center Orchestra honors picket line of another house union
- Agreement in Chicago after One Week Strike
- St. Louis Strike Ends
- Minority Program Discussed
- Nikisch on Musician Individuality
- Bon Voyage, DSO - Detroit goes to Europe
- ICSOM Meets in Minneapolis
- Dallas Signs One Year Pact
- Orchestra News From Abroad: Hong Kong - massacre by new conductor; Greece- dissolution of two orchestras in Athens
- Letter from Detroit musician - protesting "sideman"
- Grant Park Committee Helps Choose New Manager
- St. Louis Weathers Seven Week Strike
- Chicago Concert Broadcast Live by BBC
- Let's Help Bust The Broadcast Lobby
- Oregon Signs In September
- Henry Shaw to be NEA Panel Member
- Letter from the Editor
- A New Noun is Born: "ICSOM-ization" - discussion of remarks by Gunther Schuller
- Toledo Ratifies New Contract: Begins Search for New Music Director
- The New Recording Agreement
- Minnesota Resolves Differences After Short Work Stoppage
- At Least a Gesundheit! - reprint from The Violinist, 1912
- Touring Grants Assisting American Orchestras
- 1979-80 Symphony Wage Chart
- Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra Reaches Agreement
- You've Come a Long Way, Baby - discussion of termination clauses in old symphony contracts
- Memorial Fund Established in Memory of Ralph Mendelson
- The Three Mile Island "Incident" - Minnesota musicians refuse hot date, arbitration results
- A New Revolving String Concept (or, who's on first bass)
- Record Pirate Nailed by FBI
- Money Talk from the Treasurer
- New IRS Code Restrictions Discriminatory
- Letter - from NY Philharmonic TSA committee advocating ICSOM orchestras shop for TSA's as a group
- What Are Friends For? - St. Louis musicians play strike benefit with Kansas City Philharmonic
- Oregon Symphony Has New Music Director
- Oregon Symphony Hosts This Year's ICSOM Conference
- Letter from the Chairman
- Seattle Symphony Signs Three Year Contract
- ICSOM's Newest Addition, the Utah Symphony Orchestra
- Letter - from Frederick Zenone to AFM IEB protesting recommendation for national work dues
- Beecham the Irrepressible - a Beecham story
- San Francisco Management and Players Save School Music Program
- Recording Technology Expanding
- From Here and There - news items
- Check That TSA Year End Statement
- Federation Work Dues: An Intolerable Burden
- Cleveland Strike Ends
- Toledo Symphony Orchestra Chooses New Music Director
- A Truck Driver's Idea of Accelerando, or, Nobody's Perfect - one-tone cola dispenser attacks Cincinnati Symphony
- Job Satisfaction: For Some, An Elusive Search
- The Berlin Philharmonic Circa 1912 - The Violinist, 1912
- Letter From the Editor
- Beecham the Irrepressible - a Beecham story
- Turbulence in Portland: Mt. St. Helens Simmers, Orchestra Delegates Boil
- Question: When is Ratification Not Ratification?
- I Wonder If Denny Kordell Got The Job? - dog applies for personnel manager position in North Carolina
- Changing of the Guard
- Fred Zenone New ICSOM Chairman
- Convention Notes
- Rochester and Syracuse Orchestras Locked in Bitter Baseball Battle
- Schuller One-Sided - response by Seattle musician to remarks of Gunther Schuller
- Letter to Treasurer - from St. Louis musicians on repayment of loan from ICSOM Emergency Relief Fund
- Cincinnati Agrees to Three Year Pact
- Negotiation News
- Boston Contract a Pace Setter
- The Metropolitan Opera Lockout: The Saga of An Orchestra
- Cable TV: Wave of the Future?
- Denver Symphony Almost Self-Destructs - season canceled, then agreement reached
- Regionals Caucus on Problems
- Oom Pah Pah - letter to Minnesota newspaper from tubist of Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra
- At Long Last: A Kansas City Philharmonic Contract
- The Florida Symphony: A New Beginning
- Con Sordino Cough Requested - reprinted from program book seen at Festival Hall in London
- North Carolina Signs After One Week Strike
- 1980-91 Symphony Wage Chart
- Record Pirate Draws Jail Term and Fine
- Letter - from John Palanchian discussing advertisement in International Musician for job in Venezuela
- Phoenix Survives First Work Stoppage
- Utah Contract Reflects Effort to Attain Peer Orchestra Equality
- Erich Leinsdorf Speaks Out - disputes Schuller remarks
- Government Funding for the Arts In Trouble?
- Artist Fees a Concern
- Letter from the Editor - AKC Philharmonic Contract
- Cartoon
- AFM Strike Fund Changes Recommended
- Musicians' Nightmares
- Republic Airlines Policy on Instrument Carriage Discriminatory?
- An Open Collar Concert - program for concert near Three Mile Island
- Tinnitus Sufferer? There's Hope for Relief
- Like Traveling? Try This On For Size - LSO 1912 US tour itinerary; 24 concerts in 20 days
- With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies? - letter to Rep. James Hansen from members of the Utah Symphony
- 1981 ICSOM Conference Promises Stimulating Agenda
- Minnesota Orchestra Responds to Irresponsible Criticism
- Local 4 and Detroit Symphony Break New Ground in Union - Orchestra Relations
- The New ICSOM Directory
- Narrowing The Rift: Zenone Addresses ASOL Conference
- More on Republic Airlines Policy on Instrument Cartage
- Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition Largest in US
- Detroit Symphony Agrees to Short Wage Freeze
- Dreher Compiles Informative Personnel List -orchestras broken down by sex (!)
- North Carolina Symphony Trustees Cancel Season and Contract
- National Ratifies Three Year Pact
- ICSOM Delegates Meet in Milwaukee
- Pittsburgh Agrees to Three Year Pact
- Contract Signed by Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra
- LA In The Fold, Signs Three Year Contract
- Delegates React to Panel Discussion on Job Satisfaction
- Philadelphia Signs Agreement for $210 Over Three Years
- The North Carolina Story Not a Rosy Picture
- Let's Get With It - delegates chided for tardy return of information
- The Best of Everything, Ted - wishing retiring head of AFM Symphony
Department Ted Dreher well
- A Case For Fairness - women in orchestras
- Major Contractual Breakthroughs Made by Louisville Orchestra
- Full Spectrum Lighting Urged by Researchers
- Whoops, Sorry About That! - war story from Utah
- Rochester Inks One Year Pact
- San Antonio Handles Lockout; Signs Three Year Agreement
Volume 20, Supplement - Spring 1982
- A Study in Unity: For Baltimore, A Future At Last - musicians triumph
after sixteen week lockout
- Ralph Mendelson Memorial Prize Activated
- Call for Research Assistants
- Weather Plays Havoc with Atlanta Schedule
- Please! No Knitting on Stage - seven pregnant musicians with Detroit Symphony at Carnegie
- The Professional Problems of Orchestra Women
- 1981-82 Symphony Wage Chart
- An Equal Opportunity Employer - humorous help-wanted
- 1982-83 Symphony Wage Chart
- Florida Symphony Musicians Ratify Two-Year Pact
- From the Editor's Desk - discussing history of Senza
- 1982 Appropriations to NEA Cut
- Read It and Weep Department - military bands funding up
- Biting the Bullet - Kansas City resumes, San Diego summer season canceled, new one year contract signed
- Donahue Show Slurs Musicians
- Letter From San Francisco local President to Baltimore
- Denov Reports on Lawsuit - against AFM
- Rochester Orchestra Members Win Six Local 66 Posts
- Mutual Fund TRSP Explained
- Wage Chart Correction
- From the Editor's Desk - Shaw bids farewell to Senza
- A Cure For Stage Fright? - discussion of beta blockers
- Adrian Gnam New NEA Music Program Director
- Correction - to Article on 1982 NEA appropriation cut
- Houston Agreement Includes Innovations - new benefits
- Tom Combines Pauken and Talkin' - Indianapolis timpanist broadcasts AAA baseball
- It Could Eliminate Latecomers - time and motion study
- Letter - from North Carolina committee to ICSOM treasurer
- Los Angeles Hosts 1982 ICSOM Conference
- LA Orchestra Given Vacation Option Abroad - after tour
- The Strike Fund
- Death Takes Gifted Calvin Simmons
- The 1982 ICSOM Conference
- National Symphony Takes Wage Freeze
- San Francisco Signs Three Year Agreement In March