by Music Performance Trust Fund | Nov 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
November 1, 2022 / The Music Performance Trust Fund (MPTF) will celebrate its 75th Anniversary in 2023. This article explores the establishment of the MPTF, which led to the formation of the AFM’s pension and residual funds. If you receive benefit payments from...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Oct 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
October 23, 2022 / Following its sold-out “Tosca,” Opera Santa Barbara (Opera SB) continues its 2022-23 season with a new production of Rossini’s “La scala di seta,” starring soprano Jana McIntyre of Santa Barbara. There will be one public performance at 2:30 pm...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Oct 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
VOORHEESVILLE– Come join founder Gary Robusto, from the Tri-City Paranormal Society, at 6:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct.26. We’ll learn about how paranormal investigators approach the field of the unexplained with as much critical thinking and logic as can be employed....
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Oct 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
October 5th, 2022 / Making it as a professional musician or singer takes a lot of talent, a huge amount of work, and a little bit of luck. Part of making it is being in the right place at the right time (even if that’s online), which sends droves of aspiring musicians...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Sep 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
September 17, 2022 / The upcoming Curtain Up Broadway Festival will bring more than fifteen free interactive public events and live performances to the heart of NYC, from Times Square to Duffy Square, between 45th and 48th Streets on Broadway....
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Sep 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Established by major music recording labels, the MPTF distributed 120 scholarships to benefit aspiring professional musicians and children of professional musicians NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A scholarship program utilizing assets of the...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Sep 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
WHEELING — Labor Day weekend usually marks the end of summer, but it also marks the beginning of a new and exciting season for the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra. That tradition continues this year when the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra and Kalkreuth Roofing and Sheet...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ray Hair – AFM International President August 1st, 2022 / I was a 19-year-old college student when I first came in direct contact with the American Federation of Musicians. Of course, I’d heard about the musicians’ union and how it stood for good...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Celebrating Black music and culture, free evening performance in Peterborough Square courtyard takes place the day after Emancipation Day Peterborough’s Beau Dixon (left) and the cast of “Freedom Cabaret: The Spirit and Legacy of Black Music”...
by Music Performance Trust Fund | Jul 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
50 Years Ago ■One of the first mechanical utensil and glassware washers in western Massachusetts was installed in the Cooley Dickinson Hospital Central Sterile Supply Department when it opened in December 1960 as part of the hospital’s expansion plans of that year....
