The third annual Colorado Creative Careers Festival will be held on Friday, February 24, 2012. This one-day Festival for high school students and educators will feature hands-on workshops taught by working professionals and higher education faculty, informational sessions about authentic job skills and expectations in the arts fields, and an interactive critique of submitted student projects and portfolios. The Festival will support the development of a strong student leadership organization within the arts that is open to all arts students, the awareness and understanding of growing career and technical opportunities with the Creative Arts clusters, and linkages between arts students and arts professionals.
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By Pete Vriesenga

The League of American Orchestras (LAO), formerly known as the American Symphony Orchestra League (ASOL) has ramped-up their anti-collective bargaining rhetoric lately. LAO’s latest publication: Fearless Journeys: Innovation in Five American Orchestras is yet another in a string of “new model” discussions that champion this message. The book claims to provide “hard evidence” through a small sample study that orchestras can become more “sustainable” by taking risks and modifying their collective bargaining agreements. Of course there is no mention of the established alternative, which is hundreds of amateur orchestras with no collective bargaining agreements that wander aimlessly to the public trough only to pay their administrators.
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Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts
Education Director
(25 hrs/wk)

The Colorado Music Festival & Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts (CMF & RMCMA) presents a sixweek summer music festival at Chautauqua in Boulder, and operates a year]round community music school in Lafayette providing music instruction on all instruments and voice to more than 500 students of all ages and abilities each week. (Visit www.comusic.org for more information). The Education Director is the principal architect of all festival and music school education programs. This position requires a strong background in music education, and knowledge of and commitment to the core principals of the National Guild for Community Arts Education, including excellence and access, which guide our music education programs.

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Littleton’s Centennial Academy of the Arts needs musical instruments. If you have one to donate, please contact
Hank Troy at the DMA office, 303-573-1717, or by email at hanktroydma@aol.com
The current needs are 8 flutes and/or clarinets; 5 saxophones (alto and tenor); 7 trumpets; and 7 baritones.

LYS seeks candidates for a part-time Administrator to help us sustain and grow our organization. The Administrator reports to the LYS Board of Directors and works closely with the board and volunteers. Please view and download the Administrator Job Description PDF file for a complete description.

To apply, please e-mail cover letter, resume and references to: info@longmontyouthsymphony.org

Applications submitted prior to January 20 will be considered for the first round of interviews.

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Thank you for your interest in the Colorado Symphony. Please CLICK HERE to access the repertoire for the Substitute Horn auditions. These auditions will be recordings only, and must be submitted in CD format. Any recordings received after February 15, 2012 will not be considered.

Central City Opera
Pelham G. Pearce, Jr., General/Artistic Director
John Baril, Music Director

ANNOUNCES AUDITIONS FOR:
Principal Horn (tenure-track)
Principal Cello (tenure-track)
Second Flute (one-year)
Piccolo (3 extra positions)

The 2012 Festival is June 21 – August 12.
CLICK HERE for additional information.
www.centralcityopera.org

Denver celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Denver Coliseum on January 10, 2012, marking six decades of an extraordinary variety of entertainment and history. Owned by the people of the City and County of Denver, the Coliseum is an iconic structure in our ever-changing city.

New York City—Saturday, January 7, 2012 – At 9 p.m. on Saturday, January 7th, New York City Opera management rejected the final wage concession offered by Local 802, American Federation of Musicians. The company told the mediators and the unions’ negotiating committees that all employees will be locked out of work on Monday.

A three-week mediation effort conducted by the Federal Mediation & Conciliation Service centered on New York City Opera General Manager George Steel’s plan to dismantle the esteemed 68-year-old professional company and replace it with ad-hoc freelance musicians and performers. The proposals made to the unions would eliminate dozens of jobs andreduce the annual compensation of the remaining orchestra and singers from approximately $40,000 per year to $4,000 – cuts totaling 90%. By contrast, Steel’s annual compensation of over $324,000 plus benefits would far outstrip the pay of the entire orchestra.

After a more than four-year wait, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled in favor of the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) and affiliated Locals 294 (Lancaster, PA), 72-147 (Dallas-Fort Worth, TX), and 9-535 (Boston, MA) in determining that the musicians of the Lancaster Symphony Orchestra are statutory employees, not independent contractors. The two-to-one decision announced December 27, 2011, is a reversal of the regional NLRB’s 2007 ruling to dismiss the orchestra’s union election petition, and clears the way for the orchestra to vote on union representation.