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October 28, 2003
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36th ANNUAL ASCAP DEEMS TAYLOR AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The American Society of Composers, Authors
& Publishers announced the winners of the 36th Annual
ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast
and new media coverage of music. The winners will be
honored at a special reception on December 4, 2003 at
the Walter Reade Theatre in New York City. Over the
years, tens of thousands of dollars have been distributed
in cash prizes to winning authors, journalists and broadcast
producers and personalities.
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast
Award honors the WFMT Radio & WFMT Radio
Network producer Steve Robinson for innovative music
programming. Cited in the Television Broadcast
category are Live By Request and A&E
Television Networks ( A&E Executive Producer, Delia
Fine; A&E Producer, Emilio Nunez; Creator, Tony
Bennett; Executive Producer/Creator, Danny Bennett;
Executive Producer/Creator, Paul Rapapport; Executive
Producer, Andy Kadison; Executive Producer, Jodi Hurwitz;
and Supervising Producer, Mitch Maketansky). The ASCAP
Deems Taylor Internet Award honors
the outstanding web site, All Music Guide (www.allmusicguide.com),
an Alliance Entertainment company.
The Timothy White Award for Outstanding
Musical Biography cites Richard Sudhalter for
his book, Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of
Hoagy Carmichael, published by Oxford University
Press. This award was established last year to honor
the memory of Billboard Magazine editor Timothy
White, who passed away in early 2002. Mr. White was
himself a former Deems Taylor recipient, and was the
writer of acclaimed biographies of Bob Marley, Brian
Wilson, and James Taylor.
The authors and publishers of
the six books to be honored at the ceremony are:
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Alfred Appel Jr.
for Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong
to Matisse and Joyce, by Alfred A. Knopf, Publishers
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Larry Hicock for
Castles Made of Sound: The Story of Gil Evans,
by Da Capo Press
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Lise A. Waxer
for The City of Musical Memory: Salsa, Record
Grooves and Popular Culture in Cali, Colombia,
by Wesleyan University Press
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Charles M. Joseph
for Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of
Invention, by Yale University Press
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Arthur Berger
for Reflections of an American Composer,
by The University of California Press
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Allen Shawn for
Arnold Schoenberg’s Journey, by Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, Inc.
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Michael Hicks
for Henry Cowell: Bohemian, by University
of Illinois Press
The ten writers and editors of journal, magazine
and newspaper articles, program notes and/or liner
notes and their respective publishers to be honored
are:
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Alan Light for
his three articles, “The Missing,” published
in the New Yorker, “Song of Solomon,”
in GQ and “Behind Blue Eyes,”
in Spin.
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Eli Attie for
his three articles, “Paul and George, Yesterday
Meets Tomorrow,” “Notes from the Velvet
Underground,” “Emitt Rhodes: Lost &
Found,” by published by The Washington
Post.
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Ashley Kahn for
her liner notes, “John Coltrane: A Love Supreme,
issued by Verve Music Group.
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Jim Dulzo for his
article, “Hard Bob, Hard Time - Music, Madness
& Roy Brooks,” published by JazzTimes.
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Laurence Hobgood
for his article, “The Art of the Trio,”
published in the JVC Jazz Festival Program –
New York.
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Austin Clarkson
and David Holzman for their article,
“Stefan Wolpe: Compositions for Piano,”
issued by Bridge Records, Inc.
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Mark Gresham for
his article, “Sounds Like Home,” published
in Creative Loafing.
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Clarke Bustard
for his article, “A Case for Early Music Education,”
published in The Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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Ralph P. Locke
for his article, “What Chopin (and Mozart
and Others) Heard: Folk, Popular, “Functional,”
and Non-Western Music in the Classic/Romantic Survey
Course,” published by Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
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Lewis Rowell for
his article, “New Temporal Horizons and the
Theory of Music,” published by University
of Nebraska Press.
In addition, ASCAP Deems Taylor Special
Recognition Awards will be presented to Jim
O’Neal & Amy Van Singel for their book
The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living
Blues Magazine, published by Routledge; Steve
Reich for his book Writings on Music 1965
- 2000, published by Oxford University Press; Jon
Garelick for his article, “Giving Jazz
the Business: Can Major Labels Make the Music Pop?”
published in The Boston Phoenix; and Douglas
McLennan for ArtsJournal.com.
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the world's
largest performing- right organization, with over 170,000
composer, lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP
is committed to protecting the rights of its members
by licensing and collecting royalties for the public
performance of their copyrighted works, and then distributing
these fees to the Society's members based on performances.
ASCAP's repertory spans the entire spectrum of music
from pop to symphonic, rock to gospel, Latin to country
to jazz, rhythm and blues, theater, film and television
music. ASCAP's Board of Directors is made up solely
of writers and publishers, elected by the membership.
The members of the ASCAP Deems Taylor
Awards Panel for 2003 are Charles Dodge, Julie Flanders,
Deborah Frost, Larry John McNally, Richard Miller, Frank
Oteri, Paul Moravec, Matthew Shipp and Wesley Stace.
ASCAP-Deems
Taylor Award Recipients 1968 to Present
ASCAP
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