From the Office of the AFM President

Dear Local Officer,

I am writing to advise you of Local 72-147's forthcoming demonstration on March 27, 28, and 29 in Fort Worth against the Texas Ballet Theater and invite your Local's members to join the demonstrations.

In September of 2008, the Theater dumped the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Opera orchestras and has used canned music instead. Then in February 2009 the Theater announced that it would open its 2009/2010 season in the new $400 million Dallas Performing Arts Center to an empty pit.

On March 27, 28 and 29, the Theater will present Cleopatra, with the Rimsky-Korsakov score piped in with a recording made in China. This action simply must not be allowed to go unchecked.  It is an insult to musicians and audiences in the Dallas Fort Worth community and if we do not show our opposition to it this could motivate other companies across North America to do the same.

I have provided three links below courtesy of Local 72-147.  These links provide more information on this matter.

http://www.musiciansdfw.org/ballet_crisis/ballet_press_release4.pdf

http://musiciansdfw.org/ballet_crisis/message_to_tbt_employees_public.pdf

http://musiciansdfw.org/ballet_crisis/ltr_from_ray_hair_to_union_members.pdf

http://musiciansdfw.org/pages/ballet_crisis.htm

I look forward to your support on this matter.

Sincerely,


Thomas F. Lee
President
AFM

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