Composers Union: A Call to Seasoned Leadership

Across the film music industry, the recent composer unionization effort has been at the forefront of everyone’s mind for the last few weeks. Led by film composers Bruce Broughton, James DiPasquale, Alan Elliott, and Alf Clausen, the Teamsters Local 399 has offered a hand as one of the most powerful union organizations to help unionize composers — one of the last creative groups in Hollywood to still work without a collective bargaining agreement. Since the announcement of this effort, there have been many opinions expressed, a lot of intense debate and discussion, and a load of mixed emotions on all fronts. I’ve mentioned before that I am yet undecided on the issue. To be honest,…

Deane Ogden: Composers Union Information Meeting · TONIGHT

As we’ve been covering here at SCOREcast for the last several weeks, tonight is going to be an interesting night. I sincerely hope to see many of you TONIGHT for a meeting that could very well prove to be the early beginnings of a union for film music composers. If you are unable to make the meeting, keep your browser pointed here at SCOREcastOnline.com. We will be setting up a special section tonight where you’ll be able to get all of your unionization news in one spot. The Readers Digest condensed version of what’s happening is that the newly formed Association of Media Composers and Lyricists (AMCL), led by composers Alf Clausen, Bruce Broughton, Jim…