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2012 Spring Newsletter.Indd Making music grow The ASCAP Foundation since 1975 www.ascapfoundation.org Notations Spring/Summer 2012 Stephen Schwartz Honored at ASCAP Foundation Awards he ASCAP Foundation held Tits 16th Annual Awards Cer- emony at the Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City on December 7, 2011. Hosted by ASCAP Foundation President, Paul Williams, the event honored Stephen Schwartz, The ASCAP Foundation Multiple Oscar and Grammy Award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Richard Rodgers Award recipient composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz (r) receives the Schwartz for his lifetime contri- with Mary Rodgers. Richard Rodgers Award from Tony Award-winning butions to the Musical Theater composer/lyricist Adam Guettel. with The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award. Additional photos from the event can be found on page 8 and 9. The Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards ASCAP Foundation program renamed in honor of legendary trumpeter he ASCAP Foundation is the recipient of a generous multiple-year grant from The THerb Alpert Foundation to support our Young Jazz Composer Awards Program. Established in 2002 to discover, encourage and develop the creative talents of gifted jazz composers under the age of 30, the Young Jazz Composer Awards will now carry the name of the great trum- peter and ASCAP member, Herb Alpert. In This Issue The Young Jazz Composer Awards are granted annually to talented young • Stephen Schwartz Honored jazz composers who are selected • Herb Alpert Program through a juried national competition. • Hal David’s Celebration Original music which has not previously • Ginny Mancini Receives Award earned awards or prizes is eligible. Since • Pheobe Jacobs the program’s inception, hundreds of • New Jimmy Van Heusen Award young composers, who represent the • New Award honoring Nick Ashford PHOTO BY GREG ALLEN future of jazz, have benefi ted from the cash awards and recognition. • New Scholarship by Paul Williams Herb Alpert and wife Lani Hall. • New Freddy Bienstock Scholarship/Internship The Herb Alpert Foundation, a • “We Write the Songs” Library of Congress Event non-profi t, private foundation established in the early 1980’s, makes • ASCAP Day @ Berklee signifi cant annual contributions to a range of programs in the fi elds of Arts, • ‘12 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Arts Education and Compassion and Well Being. Its funding is directed • Songwriters: The Next Generation Program toward projects in which Herb and Lani Alpert and Foundation President Rona Sebastian play an active role. The Foundation does not accept unso- • ASCAP Foundation Awards Ceremony licited proposals. www.herbalpertfoundation.org • ‘12 Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards • 2011 Donor Honor Roll For a listing of the 2012 ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer recipients, • NEA Grant please see page 9. • Numbers to Note One Lincoln Plaza, New York, NY 10023 phone 212-621-6219 fax 212-595-3342 [email protected]@@ascapap.com www.ascapfoundatiowww.aascapfof undndatiionon.n.orgorg The ASCAP Foundation Page 2 Notations Spring/Summer 2012 A Wonderful Celebration Brings A In Memoriam Generous Gift to The ASCAP Foundation ast fall, a once-in-a lifetime cast of performers in- L cluding Burt Bacharach, Liz Callaway, Jackie De- Shannon, Lani Hall and Herb Alpert, Albert Hammond, Michele Lee, Smokey Robinson, Valerie Simpson, B.J. Thomas, Steve Tyrell, Dionne Warwick, Paul Williams, Stevie Wonder and Dwight Yoakam joined together in Los Angeles for Love, Sweet Love, A Musical Trib- ute to Hal David at the Mark Taper Forum. The sold- out concert, which was a benefi t for the Blue Ribbon Children’s Festival and The ASCAP Foundation, was Pheobe Jacobs the most successful ASCAP Foundation fundraiser to date refl ecting the Davids’ long-standing commit- e mourn the passing ment to arts and music education. The event was Wof Phoebe Jacobs, Executive Vice President of the Pictured at the star-studded event produced by ASCAP Foundation Executive Director are Eunice & Hal David. Karen Sherry and celebrated David’s 90th birthday. Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Phoebe was a woman of many talents and a The ASCAP Foundation true friend of The ASCAP Foun- Congratulates Ginny Mancini dation. Phoebe was a fi xture on the jazz scene since she rts leader, philanthropist, singer and dedicated began working as a hat check A ASCAP Foundation Board member, Ginny girl in a jazz nightclub at age Mancini, was recently honored with the Distinguished 17 and she was dedicated to Service Award from the Kaufman Cultural Center. Louis and Lucille Armstrong. In Ginny’s role as a leader in charitable endeavors on 1969 she assisted in establish- behalf of music is wide-ranging and impressive. In ing the Louis Armstrong Edu- 1984, she was co-founder of the Society of Singers, cational Foundation where dedicated to the health, welfare and education of she served as vice-president professional vocalists who fi nd themselves in need. In until her death on April 9, 1996, she helped establish the Henry Mancini Institute 2012. Always ready with an after the passing of her husband, Henry Mancini. Doz- idea and an action plan, she ens of music education and cultural organizations was responsible for fostering have benefi ted from her support and activism in her programs at all school levels home town of Los Angeles and across the country Pictured (l-r) at the gala are ASCAP to promote music education – Foundation Executive Director, and she has continually offered her resources and particularly in the fi eld of jazz. Karen Sherry, who presented the expertise to benefi t the many programs and activi- She was a lively friend and col- award to ASCAP Foundation Board ties of The ASCAP Foundation. We congratulate her league and is sorely missed. member Ginny Mancini. on this well-deserved honor! Family of Jimmy Van Heusen Goes “All the Way” he family of Jimmy Van Heusen has established the Jimmy Van Heusen Award Tat The ASCAP Foundation to honor the legacy of the great American songwriter. Jimmy Van Heusen was one of the most accomplished songwriters from the mid-twentieth century, with countless hits sung and recorded by such American vocal icons as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Lena Horne and Rosemary Clooney. Some of his most popular songs were written for movies. Teaming up with lyricist Johnny Burke, Van Heusen began writing songs for Paramount Pictures. Together he and Burke wrote the scores for many Bing Crosby movies including Road to Zanzibar, Road to Morocco, Dixie, and Going My Way, among others. Together they won their fi rst Academy Award. Later in his life, Jimmy Van Heusen teamed up with lyricist Sammy Cahn and together they received three Best Song Academy Awards for their works, “All The Way,” “Call Me Irresponsible,” and “High Hopes.” He and Cahn also received an Emmy Award for their American standard “Love and Marriage.” The ASCAP Foundation Jimmy Van Heusen Award will be presented to an outstanding, promising composer who has participated in the ASCAP/NYU Television and Film Scoring Workshop. The recipient will be an ASCAP or unaffi li- Jimmy Van Heusen ated member who is pursuing a career in television and fi lm scoring. The ASCAP Foundation Spring/Summer 2012 Notations Page 3 The ASCAP Foundation “Sunlight of the Spirit” Scholarship made possible by Mariana and Paul Williams SCAP Foundation President Paul Just Begun”, “You and Me Against AWilliams and his wife Mariana the World” and “The Rainbow Con- have established The ASCAP Founda- nection”, have been recorded by tion “Sunlight of the Spirit” Scholarship artists as varied as Elvis Presley, Frank to be presented to a full-time Rutgers Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, REM, Tony University student who is exemplary Bennett, Dixie Chicks, Jason Mraz, in recovery and in music creativity. and Kermit the Frog. The inaugural presentation of the His recent work has remained scholarship will be made by Paul and wonderfully diverse, from creating Mariana on December 12th at the the story and writing the songs for annual ASCAP Foundation Awards Disney’s Emmy nominated A Mup- Ceremony being held in New York pets Christmas: Letters To Santa and City. penning the music and lyrics for Garry Paul Williams is an Oscar, Grammy Marshall’s theatrical sensation Happy and Golden Globe winning Hall of Days, to writing with the Scissor Sisters ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams Fame songwriter and President & and Daft Punk. The spectacular world with wife Mariana. Chairman of the Board of ASCAP premiere of Paul Williams Still Alive, a and The ASCAP Foundation. Recog- documentary about Paul for which nized as one of America’s most gifted he wrote the title track, took place at Williams has been lauded for his work lyricists and composers, Williams’ mu- the Toronto International Film Festival, as a songwriter, performer, actor and sical legacy, including “We’ve Only followed by the U.S. premier at SXSW. humanitarian. Valerie Simpson Honors the Legacy of Nick Ashford op and soul songwriting legend and ASCAP and ASCAP Foundation PBoard member Valerie Simpson has established The ASCAP Foundation “Reach Out and Touch” Award in honor of her partner in life and musical collaborator, Nick Ashford. Ashford & Simpson, collaborators on such iconic R&B songs like “Ain’t Nothin’ Like the Real Thing,” “You’re All I Need to Get By,” “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand),” began writing songs together in 1964. Their songs have been recorded by such musical gi- ants as Diana Ross, Gladys Knight and the Pips and Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. The award, named after one of their great hit songs, was established to ad- vance the careers of promising songwriters by providing fi nancial assistance for professional recordings of their work.
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