After having a very successful conducting workshop in June, there has been demand for another one before Maestro Tartaglione leaves for his teaching assistantship with Gustav Meier at the Peabody Institute this fall. We will be having a 5 day conducting course at Broadway Music School July 30-August 3 from 5:00 – 8:30 PM each day. Please pass the accompanying flyer on to anyone who might be interested.

Remember the joy you received by playing your musical instrument? There are some children who want to play, but can’t afford to rent or buy an instrument. 9News is collecting musical instruments again this year! By donating an instrument, you are giving a child the chance to create music of their own. This year, 9News will be at three local free concerts in the park collecting instruments and cash donations. Cash donations will help repair and tune donated instruments.

(CBS4) AURORA, Colo. An Aurora woman is hoping the gift of music will help troops serving in Iraq get through the stress of war by sending guitars to them.
If you’re interested in donating a guitar or another musical instrument to a soldier serving overseas or in a rehabilitation hospital, contact the American Legion Post #1 at (303) 757-1919 or the Denver Musicians Association at (303) 573-1717.
http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_196214142.html

For the past month, 48 student activists have been working on projects across the country as part of the AFL-CIO’s Union Summer, a 10-week program that began June 4.

Launched in 1996, Union Summer has graduated nearly 3,000 activists, many of whom continue to work for social justice. Past Union Summer interns have gone on to be union organizers, organizer trainers, strategic researchers and labor attorneys.

Enjoy great music and entertainment at the Brighton 2007 Culturefest this weekend…ALL FREE! Some of DMA’s finest groups; Pan Jumbies, Fat City & The Nacho Men, will be appearing courtesy of 5Star Talent and Entertainment, Inc. Click on “Read More” for a complete schedule and program.

June 28, 2007
Thomas F. Lee, international president of the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), AFL-CIO, today told a Congressional hearing that those most affected by the internet royalty rates set last March by the Copyright Royalty Board are the thousands of recording artists, session musicians and background vocalists that are struggling to make a living.

Roy Pritts, educator, musician, composer, author, administrator and recording engineer died in Aurora, Colorado on June 20, 2007. He was 70. As a professional musician and composer, he was on the arranging staffs of the Martha Raye television show and the Stan Kenton Orchestra, and performed with such artists as Les Elgart, Billy May, John Denver, The Carpenters, The Fifth Dimension, Elvis Presley and Andrew Lloyd Webber. He also performed with the Denver Symphony Orchestra and created multi-media compositions for the Gates Planetarium. He played trombone, piano, synthesizer and other instruments. The family will receive friends on Friday, June 29, 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Horan & McConaty Family Chapel, 11150 East Dartmouth Avenue (at Parker Road) in Aurora.

I would like to let all of the members know that I will be on live TV, on Thursday the 28Th. I will be on channel 58 at 5:00pm. So I’m inviting all of the members to tune in to the show. I will be performing with the Naz-D-Habitz band. I will be playing the electric bass. I hope that you will enjoy the show. Vernon C. Wright.

Delegates to the American Federation of Musicians have re-elected Thomas F. Lee for a third three-year term as president. The delegates, repping 90,000 members and meeting in Las Vegas, also voted to re-elect VP Harold Bradley and Secretary-Treasurer Sam Folio. They also tapped Bill Skolnik as VP from Canada.

Featured in the June, 2007 Issue of The Instrumentalist
The Denver Municipal Band was founded in the late 1860s by Alex Sutherland, bugler at the “Charge of The Light Brigade.” The Band has always been fully professional. During the early years of the century, it toured the St. Louis and San Francisco expositions and was conducted by major bandsmen including Frederick Innes, trombone soloist for Sousa, and the renowned solo cornetist, Hermann Bellstedt, Jr. (1858-1926).

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A New Generation of Trumpeters Pave the Way for Jazz’s Next Innovations
Trumpeters featured in this section include: Maurice Brown, AvishaiCohen, Ambrose Akinmusire, Gilbert Castellanos, Christian Scott, MattShulman, Jumaane Smith, Abram Wilson, Sean Jones, Philip Dizack, LinaAllemano, Michael Rodriguez, Taylor Ho Bynum, Brad Turner, AraAnderson, Jonathan Finlayson, Taylor Haskins, Jason Palmer, CoreyWilkes, Darren Johnston, Peter Evans, Cuong Vu, Mark Rapp, ShaneEndsley and Keyon Harrold.

June 2007 Volume 74, Number 6 (On Newsstands Now)

The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM), AFL-CIO expressed support for a proposal made yesterday by SoundExchange to extend below-market rates to certain small webcasters…“Most recording musicians, including royalty artists and session musicians, are entrepreneurs themselves,” said AFM President Thomas F. Lee. “Fifty percent of the royalties paid by webcasters go to performers, and performers surely need that income stream to make it in their own careers.

Saturday, June 2, 2007 from 1-3 PM at Achord Music Studios in Littleton. Study the art of reed making with professional oboist and commercial reed maker, Tenly Williams. Tenly has been providing quality hand-made oboe reeds for international distributor Midwest Musical Imports since 2004. Please contact Achord Music Studios at 303-730-1101. Individual registration is $50.

The telecommunications industry is at a critical juncture. The emergence of a new telecommunications system-one based on high speed interactive networks designed for voice, data, and video communications-opens up tremendous opportunities for improving the quality of our economic, civic, and personal lives.

We are falling behind because the United States is the only industrialized country without a national policy to promote high speed broadband.

On Monday, April 30, Commander Kenneth W. Megan, director, leads the U.S. Coast Guard Band in a patriotic performance with a line-up of superlative soloists, Dixieland jazz, and Americana. The Band’s most senior enlisted member, Master Chief Musician Cheryl Six, performs the virtuosic “Piccolo Espagnol.” Six, a native of Littleton, CO, is soon to retire from the Band after nearly thirty years of exemplary service.

RV America, Inc. a Loveland, Colorado recreational vehicle dealer will host a free pops concert on Saturday, May 5 at 2 PM. The concert is the highlight of a “guitar drive” to secure donated guitars, harmonicas and other acoustical instruments to send to our service men and women overseas. Directed by Tom Jensen of the Junior Symphony Guild and his 30- piece professional orchestra, guests will enjoy performance of classics by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky as well as music from hit movies like “The Incredibles” and “The Polar Express”.

The 2007 DMA Membership Directory will be going to print by the beginning of May, and will then be mailed to our membership, booking agents, and anyone interested in hiring live music in advance of the 2008 Democratic National Convention. This will be a ‘one of a kind’ resource. Please continue reading for information on advertising rates and contact information.

Brass Players! Don’t miss the 2007 Rafael Mendez Brass Institute featuring the highly-acclaimed Summit Brass, the DU Brass faculty and Jazz Master Bobby Shew at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, July 23th-28th! “Play Above & Beyond!” Please visit our website at MendezBrassInstitute.com for faculty, tuition, housing, schedule and curriculum details or contact Al Hood by phone at (303) 587-7590 or by e-mail at ahood@du.edu.

Jazz, Art, and Education in the heart of Downtown Denver! Three jam-packed days of clinics, master classes and daytime performances will be free and open to DMA members. Activities begin at 8:00 am. Tickets for evening concerts are available for $15, general; $10, seniors; $5, students at the King Center Box Office 303-556-2296. Free parking at Tivoli Lot. For general information please call Music at Metro State 303-556-3180 or visit www.musicatmetro.org.

The Denver Office of Cultural Affairs will present its fourth annual 5 Points Jazz festival on Saturday, April 28, 2007. Activities begin at 11:00 am with performance venues opening at 1:00 pm. The event will take place at the Blair Caldwell African American Research Library, 2401 Welton Street, and additional venues along Welton in Historic Five Points.

The March 29, 2007 edition of Westword has named “The Foreclosure Blues” – written & performed by Paul Noel Fiorino – as “The Best Next Official State Song (2007). Paul is a member of the Denver Musicians Association, Colorado Music Association and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

These items were purchased in August, 2001, and rarely if ever used. I have all the original receipts, and they were in the original boxes until my husband I moved to our new home in Castle Rock in May 2003. Click on “Read More” below for complete list and contact info.

Congratulations to DMA member Stuart Noble and partner Chris Starkey, co-owners of Starkey Productions/Pro Entertainment, which was just awarded Entertainment Company of the Year by Colorado Meetings and Events Magazine. Furthermore, Starkey Productions/ Pro Entertainment were just nominated by the national magazine Events Solutions as Entertainment Company of the Year.
More Info: http://www.starprousa.com/

As a friend, colleague, former student of Will Schwartz, or past member of the Fort Collins Symphony Orchestra (FCSO) under Will’s baton, you are invited to participate in A Reunion of GoodWill on Sunday, May 6, 2007.

Our family’s music store has closed. This is the last of our music supplies inventory. Call 1-(800)-482-2047 to reserve your items. Click “Read More” for inventory list.

Reviewed by: William Yeoman (classicalsource.com)
“The harp is one of the most exquisite instruments ever invented, and this is an exquisite recording…The recorded sound is ideal; Lizary has also provided notes on each work in the programme. This is a disc not only for lovers of the harp, but for anyone wanting a relaxing listening experience that is also of the highest artistic merit.”

Victory Restaurant (15th & Curtis, Denver) has graciously offered to host a benefit for the Junior Symphony Guild, Inc., on Friday, March 30th from 5-8pm. We will have free appetizers, dessert, wine, beer and signature drinks. Cash bar is also available for your exclusive taste of drink. Cost of the benefit ticket is $50/person and the money will go to the JSG. Please invite your friends and family to this fun event. We will also have orchestral music showing what our music programs are all about.

WASHINGTON, March 6 Four U.S. broadcast companies, together owning more than 1,500 radio stations, tentatively agreed to pay $12.5 million in fines in a pay-to-play music scheme.

In addition, the Federal Communications Commission and industry officials said the four conglomerates — Clear Channel Communications, CBS Radio, Entercom Communications and Citadel Broadcasting — agreed to provide air time for local artists and independent record labels, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

CSO Broadcast Live on KVOD, Sat. March 9 at 7 pm
Tune in to Colorado Public Radio (KVOD 90.1 FM) this Saturday, March 9 for a live broadcast from Boettcher Concert Hall of Brahms’ Hungarian Dances Nos. 19 & 21, Dvorak’s Symphony No. 6 and Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1. Colorado Spotlight host Charley Samson interviews pianist Christopher O’Riley and conductor Marin Alsop for the broadcast.

Brass Players! Don’t miss the 2007 Rafael Méndez Brass Institute featuring the highly-acclaimed Summit Brass, the DU Brass faculty and Jazz Master Bobby Shew at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, July 23th-28th! “Play Above & Beyond!”

KOA 850AM Radio featured The Foreclosure Blues, an original song by Paul Noel Fiorino. On Friday, January 26 Morning Show, Paul spoke about his experience with Colorado’s first position in foreclosures, Nationwide. Having gone through the process a few years ago, a song now expresses the feelings of a victim of circumstance as one of many. Performed by Fiorino on guitar with harmonica, he sings how he is not alone. Colorado has the most foreclosures in the Union, and is leading in this trend.

By Marc Shulgold, Rocky Mountain New Columnist
January 20, 2007

Edith LeMaster might have created a monster – and she couldn’t be happier about it. What began as a desire to send a guitar to her son, a Marine stationed in Iraq, has grown to the point where the Aurora woman is forming a nonprofit organization designed to bring the pleasures of playing music to other U.S. troops in the Middle East.

An unfortunate situation has developed in Spokane, Washington. Our city is hosting the 2007 U.S. Figure Skating Championships which starts next week… …the Management of the Spokane Youth Symphony – a self-described “teaching” orchestra made up of high school aged students – put in a proposal last fall to the promoters to provide music for the opening and closing ceremonies. The promoters are not paying them.

The Junior Symphony Guild presents the 2007 Tiny Tots Concert series. Tiny Tots is a unique program to introduce children ages 3 to 6 to symphonic music. Children sit inside of a large circle of 31 professional musicians, the concerts entertain children with familiar music from TV shows, cartoons, and movies to help them discover that symphonic music is around them every day. Concerts are at various locations in the metro Denver area. Each concert lasts approximately 45 minutes. Tickets are $5 each. Concerts are January 22 to February 5, 2007. For full schedule and to purchase tickets, visit www.jrsg.org or call call 303-355-7855.

“In Ramadi there isn’t a whole lot to do. There’s a lot of sand,” he said. The guitars “raised morale and they gave us something to do.”
Corporal Joe Kaniatobe, USMC

To donate guitars, harmonicas or cash to purchase instruments for members of the armed forces in Iraq, contact the Denver Musicians Association, 1165 Delaware St., Denver, CO 80204, or call 303-573-1717.