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On Labor Day, Work to Save the Middle Class
By Leo W. Gerard, International President, USW
On this holiday, we can rant with Glenn Beck, kick the dog and hate the neighbor lucky enough to retain his job. Or we can do something different. We can join with our neighbors, employed and unemployed, our foreclosed-on children, our elderly parents fearing cuts in their Social Security lifeline and our fellow workers worrying that the furlough ax will strike them next. Together we can organize and mobilize and create a grassroots groundswell that gives government no choice but to respond to our needs, the needs of working people.
In Memory - Will Schwartz
When Will Schwarz stepped down as Music Director of the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra in 1999 he quipped: “I think 50 years is long enough”. Maestro Schwarz always had a quick wit and sharp intellect, and this tongue-in-cheek comment was typical of him. 
Maestro Schwartz joined the music faculty at CSU in 1949 after serving in the military and touring as a solo violinist. He felt that Fort Collins would be a good place to raise a family and immediately took over the reins of the Fort Collins Symphony.
In Memory - Richard E. Geertz
Richard Edward Geertz died at his home in Boulder on July 17, 2010. He was 65. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Boulder on Friday, August 27 at 5:30pm. Burial will be at 10:00am Saturday, August 28 at Sacred Heart of Mary cemetery. He is survived by his wife of 36 years Mary Jungerman and two daughters, Lois Kathryn Geertz and Clara Elizabeth Geertz, a brother John Geertz-Larson and two sisters, Wendy Geertz and Kathryn Schopp. Read On
Whole Foods Benefit for Junior Symphony Guild
“Attention shoppers! Can I get a price check on a cellist?”
The Whole Foods store in the Streets at Southglenn (University and Arapahoe) will be donating 5% of all sales this Wednesday August 11th to the Junior Symphony Guild’s “Inside the Orchestra” programs— benifiting the DMA musicians who make up the ensemble.
This is part of Whole Foods’ Community Giving Day— and is at the Southglenn store only. Student pianists who perform with the orchestra will be giving a recital throughout the day and Music Director Tom Jensen will be helping “bag groceries” in white tie and tails.
KUSA channel 9’s Kirk Montgomery will be there to film a piece for their 4P newscast.
This is a great way to help fund our local musicians while buying food that you need anyway!
So come out and support the JSG and your DMA musicians this Wednesday August 11!
AFM Appoints Shirk as Assistant to the President for the Western United States
New York, NY – The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kenneth Shirk of Local 99 (Portland, OR) to serve as Assistant to the President for the Western United States.
As Season Ends, Detroit Symphony Musicians Leave Stage, Go Into Audience to Deliver Message, Ask for Support
“We’re asking the public to help save this orchestra every one of us loves — an orchestra that enriches our lives and makes us proud, an orchestra that brings us recognition worldwide. We want the people to continue hearing great symphonic music at the level of quality they are used to and deserve,” Thompkins said.
“We want them to know that management refuses to negotiate. Not budging from its demands but merely repackaging them is not negotiating. The musicians look forward to honest negotiations — not charades from management — to arrive at a contract that guarantees the eventual restoration of our status as one of America’s top ten symphonic orchestras.
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