Word: interlochen
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...boys & girls who study orchestra and composition each summer among the trees of the National Music Camp at Interlochen, Mich., pay no dues to the American Federation of Musicians. Hence they had every reason to expect trouble from A.F. of M.'s squat, owl-eyed Czar James Caesar Petrillo...
...July 1942 Petrillo decided he had better get moving against the menace to unionism at Interlochen. He ordered the cancellation of broadcasts by Interlochen's National High School Orchestra over the NBC chain. The boys & girls were displacing professional musicians, said Petrillo. The boys & girls were forthwith banned. Last week Little Caesar Petrillo tried to close up Interlochen altogether. He put it on the union's "unfair" list...
Jove is Sore. There was apparently some personal animus in Petrillo's war against Interlochen. Dr. Maddy had persuaded the U.S. Senate to pass a bill prohibiting interference with the broadcasting of noncommercial, educational or cultural programs...
...Interlochen camp - founded by enthusiastic high school students-opened in the summer of 1928. Last summer it had 650 full-time pupils, two-thirds from high schools and one-third from the University of Michigan. Of the faculty of 50, half are members of symphony orchestras and hold union cards. The school consists of a camp for boys, on the shore of Lake Wahbekaness, and another for girls, a half mile away on Lake Wahbekanetta. Sunday concerts draw large audiences from northern Michigan...
...purposed and his position is as unassailable as those of any Henry Ford of business's laissez-faire days. In all his smaller undertakings of the past, from the day he got the closed shop for all Chicago musicians to his recent cancellation of a student orchestra broadcast from Interlochen on the grounds of amateur competition, he has been successful. It is conceivable and much to be hoped, however, that this time he has bruised too many toes to come out with his record of wins untouched. Now is the time for a new court ruling that will reverse...