On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:41:12 -0500
Godzilla > wrote:

> DaleW wrote:
>
> > Thursday I didn't have any wine, but enjoyed Agrippina at NYCO (the
> > beautiful cellist doing the continuo was excellent, I might add)
>
> How come they make the beautiful cellist play continuolly?

Ouch. Hey, some clubs have go-go dancers, right?

> Doesn't Local 802 have rules in the contract anymore?
> When I worked there, we always got a 15 minute (or more) intermission when
> we played an opera. ;-)
>

The closest I got to the fat opera contracts was doing the Opera Ball for many
years, but as ex-802 I can say that at least for club dates "continual music"
meant 10 minutes off per hour, and the music really was continual. You used
your 10 minutes to try and scab a whiskey somewhere, and you needed at
least someone who could pretend to play drums during the drummer's breaks.
The money was better than straight scale but not good enough. I can remember
finishing gigs like the Quadrille positively aching...

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