Legendary singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell is widely considered folk royalty for her highly prolific, and widely acclaimed, decades-spanning career. Continue reading
#AFM47 member spotlight: Joni Mitchell
Category Archives: Features
‘Lights Out’ @ the Geffen
The Geffen Playhouse Theater presents a highly theatrical exploration into the soul of an American icon, singer Nat “King” Cole. Continue reading
#AFM47 member spotlight: Linda Ronstadt
Legendary musician, actress, and advocate Linda Ronstadt is one of the most accomplished Latina artists of her generation. A Life Member of AFM Local 47, her remarkable and unparalleled music career spans folk and folk rock, to country and country rock, to pop rock and hard rock, to Gilbert and Sullivan and Puccini, to American songbook standards, to Mexican ranchera, to Afro-Cuban, to jazz. Continue reading
AFM Western Conference 2019
AFM Local 47 was pleased to host the 2019 AFM Western Conference of Locals, where officers and delegates from AFM Locals in the western United States and Canadian provinces gathered to review common issues and organize for the upcoming AFM Convention. Continue reading
‘Ragtime’ @ Pasadena Playhouse
Twenty years after its premiere, the great American musical “Ragtime” returned to L.A. in a run at the Pasadena Playhouse January 28 through March 3, 2019. Continue reading
Guest Column: My Personal Experience at the Celebration for John Williams
John Williams (left) and Gustavo Dudamel (right) shared the stage during an intimate concert series at Disney Hall in January 2019. [photos by Linda A. Rapka/AFM Local 47]
I read the glowing review by Mark Swed of the first night of the Celebration of John Williams in the Times last month, and was moved to have a personal kind of celebration; of knowing John Williams, from our time in Tucson in the 775th Air Force band, through my time as Union VP and President, when I presented both John Williams and Steven Spielberg a commemorative plaque on behalf of Musicians Local 47 at a scoring session of 105 players. The plaques were inscribed with our Local 47 musicians’ thanks for consistently scoring their films here in Hollywood, and thereby using our musicians in the resulting scoring processes. Mr. Spielberg told me at that time that he was genuinely touched by this recognition. Continue reading
Throwback: Beyoncé records national anthem
On Feb. 1, 2004, Beyoncé performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Super Bowl XXXVIII. The track was recorded in Los Angeles with a 69-piece AFM Local 47 orchestra contracted by Ernie Fields Jr. with Rickey Minor producing and Randy Waldman arranging. Continue reading
Kevin Kaska & the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles
Epilogue from Christopher Columbus Suite
Recorded at Sony Pictures, Culver City, California, August of 2018, this piece, composed and conducted by Kevin Kaska, was performed by the Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles — all members of the American Federation of Musicians Local 47. Continue reading
Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1988 (WHCRA) & Newborn and Mothers Health Protection Act of 1996 (NMHPA)
Professional Musicians & Employer’s Health & Welfare Fund:
Reconstructive Surgery Fully Covered After Mastectomy
WOMEN’S HEALTH AND CANCER RIGHTS ACT OF 1998
The Professional Musicians Local 47 and Employers Health & Welfare Fund (“the Fund”) provides you with this notice as required by the Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act of 1988 (WHCRA).
In compliance with WHCRA, the insurers contracted with by the Fund (Kaiser and Blue Shield) provide benefits for mastectomy-related services, including all stages of reconstruction and surgery to achieve symmetry between the breasts, prostheses, and for complications resulting from a mastectomy, including lymph edemas. Continue reading
2018 Motion Picture & TV Roundup
Alita: Battle Angel | trailer | imdb (20th Century FOX 12/21/2018)
Aquaman | trailer | imdb (Warner Bros. 12/21/2018)
Bad Times at the El Royale | trailer | imdb (20th Century FOX 10/12/2018)
Bao | trailer | imdb (Disney/Pixar short – 6/15/2018)
BIGGER| trailer | imdb (Bee Holder 2018 tba)
BlacKkKlansman | trailer| imdb (Focus Features 8/10/2018)
Bumblebee | imdb (Paramount 12/21/2018)
The Christmas Chronicles | imdb (Netflix 11/22/2018)
Christopher Robin | trailer | imdb (Disney 8/3/2018)
The Cloverfield Paradox | trailer | imdb (Netflix 2/4/2018)
Crazy Rich Asians | trailer | imdb (Warner Bros. 8/15/2018)
Creed II | imdb (MGM/New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. 11/21/2018)
CyberWork and the American Dream | imdb (Shell Studios 2018)
The Darkest Minds | trailer | imdb (20th Century FOX 8/3/2018)
Deadpool 2 | trailer | imdb (20th Century FOX 5/18/2018)
Death Wish | trailer | imdb (MGM 3/2/2018)
The Equalizer 2 | trailer | imdb (Sony 7/20/2018)
Every Day | imdb (MGM 2/23/2018)
Fifty Shades Freed | trailer | imdb (Universal 2/9/2018)
First Man | trailer| imdb (Universal 10/12/2018)
Game Night | imdb (New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. 2/23/18)
Game Over, Man! | imdb (Netflix 3/23/2018)
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | imdb (Columbia/Sony 10/12/2018)
Green Book | imdb (Universal 11/21/2018)
The Grinch | trailer | imdb (Universal 11/9/2018)
Guest of Honor (short) | imdb ( Jump Rock Pictures 9/18/2018)
Halcón Ciego (Blind Hawk) | trailer | imdb (Cuatro Creciente Producciones, Urban Films 6/25/2018)
The Hate U Give | trailer | imdb (20th Century FOX 10/19/2018)
The House With a Clock in Its Walls | trailer | imdb (Universal 9/21/2018)