Musicians To Rally At Carnegie Hall For Fair Contract With Distinguished Concerts International New York

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Musicians will rally Monday outside Carnegie Hall for a fair contract with Distinguished Concerts International New York, a for-profit company that holds most of its concerts at the celebrated venue.

The rally will start at 6 pm ET.DCINY’s orchestra formed a union with Local 802 of the American Federation of Musicians more than two years ago, but DCINY “has essentially locked them out and refuses to offer industry standards like union wages, proper rest breaks, health insurance, retirement payments, recording or streaming payments, job security, a primary hiring list and more,” the union said in a statement.DCINY has operated as a producer and presenter of music at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center for more than a decade.

For many of its choral concerts, it assembles choirs of amateur singers from around the world who pay a fee to perform there.

DCINY then hires a professional orchestra, soloists, and conductors.An invoice from 2018 (read it here) shows that Francis Howell North High School in Saint Charles, MO, paid $37,920 to give 48 of its students the opportunity to receive instruction and to sing at Carnegie Hall.