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No More Sounds of Silence on the Music Composition Front?
18 November 2009 9:37 PM, PST
Everyone knows that composers and lyricists makes scales ... now they want to make scale as well. Union scale, that is (or, even better, above scale). One of the few non-unionized sectors of Hollywood, composers and lyricists - the people who write music (as opposed to musicians, the people who perform it) - are now in talks with the Teamsters for representation.
It's not as strange as it seems: the macho union of dock workers and Hollywood truck drivers (Teamsters Local 399 on the West coast and Local 817 in New York) also represents casting directors, location managers, and various other tenderfoots. An earlier bid to join the Writers Guild (WGA) apparently gained little traction.
All this according to recent pieces in Variety (here, here, and here) and a long piece today in the La Times. An early-stage meeting Monday, which had been announced by the Society of Composers & Lyricists (a trade group, »
- jhandel@att.net (Jonathan Handel)
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