NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - October 22, 2008) - The American Society of Composers, Authors &
Publishers has announced the winners of the 41st Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor
Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music.
The winners will be honored at a special invitation only ceremony and
reception on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at The Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home
of Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Allen Room, Broadway at 60th Street, 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 WRTI-FM (Philadelphia)
for its outstanding Classical and Jazz music programming. Accepting awards
for WRTI will be Dave Conant, Executive Director/Classical Host and Maureen
Malloy, Jazz Music Director/Jazz Host.
A special ASCAP Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award posthumously honors
Fred Rogers, the creator and star of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,"
produced by Family Communications, Inc. 2008 marks the 40th anniversary of
the classic children's show's debut and what would have been the 80th
birthday of Fred Rogers.
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Media Award honors "The End of Early Music: A Period
Performer's History of Music for the Twenty-First Century" (Oxford
University Press) by Bruce Haynes, along with the book's companion website,
http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195189872/?view=usa, designed
by Norm Hirschy of Oxford University Press.
The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the
concert music field honors Kevin Bazzana for his book, "Lost Genius: The
Curious and Tragic Story of an Extraordinary Musical Prodigy," published by
Da Capo Press. This award was established to honor the memory of Slonimsky
(1894 - 1995), the Russian-American composer, conductor, musicologist and
critic. Slonimsky was the writer of "Baker's Dictionary of Music and
Musicians," "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns," "The Lexicon of
Musical Invective" and "Perfect Pitch," an autobiography.
The Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicological Book honors the
late Mirjana Lauševic for "Balkan Fascination: Creating an Alternative
Music Culture in America," published by The Oxford University Press. This
award honors the memory of Bartók (1881-1945), the great Hungarian-American
composer and ethnomusicologist.
The authors and publishers of the nine books to be honored at the ceremony
are:
-- Ted Anthony for "Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American
Song," published by Simon & Schuster
-- Barry Day for "The Letters of Noël Coward," published by Alfred A.
Knopf
-- John Kruth for "To Live's to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes
Van Zandt," published Da Capo Press
-- Howard Pollack for "George Gershwin: His Life and Works," published by
University of California Press
-- bruce d. mcclung for "Lady in the Dark: Biography of a Musical,"
published by Oxford University Press
-- Aniruddh D. Patel for "Music, Language and the Brain," published by
Oxford University Press
-- Alex Ross for "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century,"
published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux
-- Oliver Sacks for "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,"
published by Alfred A. Knopf
-- Wilfrid Sheed for "The House That George Built: With a Little Help
from Irving, Cole and a Crew of About Fifty," published by Random House
The seven writers and editors of journal, magazine and newspaper articles,
and liner notes and their respective publishers to be honored are:
-- John Nova Lomax for his article, "Doug Supernaw," published by The
Houston Press
-- Jorge Arévalo Mateus for his liner notes, "The Live Wire: Woody
Guthrie in Performance 1949," released by Woody Guthrie Publications
-- Paul A. Merkley for his article, "Stanley Hates This But I Like It!:
North vs. Kubrick on the Music for 2001: A Space Odyssey," published by The
Journal of Film Music
-- James Parker for his articles, "From Her to Eternity: The real Nico
emerges on The Frozen Borderline," "Heaven and Hell: Sir Paul Toodles off
to Starbucks while Ozzy Goes to War," and "Endless Rhapsody: How Queen
Trumped the Punks," published by The Boston Phoenix
-- Ken Smith for his liner notes in the CD, "The Butterfly Lovers Concert
for Violin, Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto," issued by Canary Classics
-- Laurie Stras for her article, "White Face, Black Voice: Race, Gender,
and Region in the Music of Boswell Sisters," published by Journal of the
Society for American Music
-- Rebecca Winzenried for her article, "How Brilliant," published by
Symphony Magazine
The members of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Judging Panel for 2008 are
Paul Moravec, Frank J. Oteri, Richard Miller, Julie Flanders, David
Massengill, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Felsenfeld, Pat Irwin and Wesley Stace.
About ASCAP
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights
Organization (PRO) representing the world's largest repertory totaling over
8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more
than 330,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members. ASCAP has
representation arrangements with similar foreign organizations so that the
ASCAP repertory is represented in nearly every country around the world
where copyright law exists. ASCAP protects the rights of its members and
foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of their
copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed
performances. ASCAP is the only American PRO owned and governed by its
writer and publisher members.
www.ascap.com