Source: ASCAP
December 07, 2011 17:00 ET
Broadway Great Stephen Schwartz Honored With ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award at 16th Annual ASCAP Foundation Awards & Scholarships Ceremonies in Manhattan
NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Dec 7, 2011) - The ASCAP Foundation honored composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz for his lifetime contributions to the Musical Theater with The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award. On hand to make the presentation was Richard Rodgers' grandson and fellow musical theater composer Adam Guettel (The Light in the Piazza). The accolade was presented today during the Foundation's 16th Annual Awards Ceremony, held at the Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. The invitation-only event, hosted by ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams, also honored a wide variety of Scholarship and Award recipients, all of whom benefit from programs of The ASCAP Foundation.
Over the course of a four-decade career, New York native Stephen Schwartz has created a major body of musical theater works, including Godspell, Pippin, The Magic Show, The Baker's Wife and the current, long- running hit, Wicked. Schwartz, the recipient of multiple Oscar and Grammy Awards and a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, has also contributed lyrics to the scores of the films The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas, and both music and lyrics to Prince of Egypt and Enchanted. He is also notable as the Artistic Director of the acclaimed ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theater Workshop since 1994. Other participants in this evening's tribute to Schwartz were cabaret and Broadway stars Judy Kuhn and Scott Coulter, both of whom performed Schwartz songs.
Four newly named ASCAP Foundation scholarship and/or award programs have been established in 2011 and the beneficiaries of each new program were honored at the December 7 event. The new programs include: The ASCAP Foundation "Reach Out and Touch" Award in honor of Nick Ashford to provide promising songwriters with financial assistance for professional recordings of their original songs; The ASCAP Foundation Freddy Bienstock Scholarship & Internship which provides the opportunity for a music business student interested in music publishing to intern at a major publishing company; The ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, presented to an ASCAP member who is a promising musical theater lyricist or to a composer/lyricist team; and The ASCAP Foundation Louis Prima Award which is presented to a talented vocalist or musician attending the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.
The ASCAP Foundation 2011 Award & Scholarship recipients are:
The ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award Joe Iconis, Femke Weidema
The ASCAP Foundation Robert Allen Award Chris Snyder
The ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Film & TV Award Matthew Janszen
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarships Dean Olsher, Barry Stephenson
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship (in honor of W.C. Handy) Somto Imperial Anumba The ASCAP Foundation "Reach Out and Touch" Award in honor of Nick Ashford André Henry
The ASCAP Foundation Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship Anna Larsen
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Berlin Summer Camp Scholarship Evan Johnson The ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Award Wlad Marhulets
The ASCAP Foundation Freddy Bienstock Scholarship & Internship Shane Ching
The ASCAP Foundation Boosey & Hawkes Young Composer Award (in honor of Aaron Copland) Stella Fiorenzoli
The ASCAP Foundation Leon Brettler Award Brent Wesley Rupard
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Burgie Scholarship Ebony Joi
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Scholarship Alexander Castillo, Gordon Lam, Elvis Vanderpool-Krajnak
The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award Katie Herzig
The ASCAP Foundation Desmond Child Anthem Award Matthew Bubel
The ASCAP Foundation Cy Coleman Award Mia Minichiello
The ASCAP Foundation Eunice & Hal David Merit Award Gretchen Parlato
The ASCAP Foundation Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship Bryn Holdsworth, Ivan Rosenberg
The ASCAP Foundation John Denver Music Scholarship Supported by BMG Chrysalis Jordan Digby, Eyeshia McSwain
The ASCAP Foundation Jamie deRoy & friends Award Lance Horne
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell City College Scholarship (in honor of George & Ira Gershwin) Antoine Cara
The ASCAP Foundation Max Dreyfus Scholarship Rona Siddiqui The ASCAP Foundation Film Scoring Scholarship Sarah Eide
The ASCAP Foundation Ira Gershwin Scholarship Adam O'Farrill
The ASCAP Foundation Jay Gorney Award Max Fisher
The ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/ Lorenz Hart Award Christopher Dimond & Michael Kooman
The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Songwriting Scholarship Danielle Deckard
The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award Yuri Boguinia
The ASCAP Foundation BMG Chrysalis Scholarship in honor of Quincy Jones Aman Alem
The ASCAP Foundation Leo Kaplan Award Anthony Cheung
The ASCAP Foundation Steve Kaplan TV & Film Studies Scholarship Sergio Jiménez Lacima
The ASCAP Foundation Michelle and Dean Kay Award Jeremy Silver
The ASCAP Foundation Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship Stefani Feldman, Carlos Nieves
The ASCAP Foundation Livingston & Evans Music Scholarship Mayu Isom The ASCAP Foundation Frederick Loewe Scholarship Benjamin Bonnema
The ASCAP Foundation Barbara and John LoFrumento Award Music Conservatory of Westchester Music Therapy Institute Eastchester School District
The ASCAP Foundation Michael Masser Scholarship Simon Wiskowski
The ASCAP Foundation Henry Mancini Music Fellowship David Pegel
The ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize Eric Nathan
The ASCAP Foundation Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship Rebecca Carrasco The ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award Peter Mills
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Prima Award Glenn Hall III
The ASCAP Foundation Joe Raposo Children's Music Award Chris Ballew, Garry Novikoff
The ASCAP Foundation Joan and Irwin Robinson Scholarship Samuel Disston Tall
The ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award Benj Pasek & Justin Paul
The ASCAP Foundation David Rose Centennial Award Agatha Kasprzyk, Chad Rehmann
The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award Garth Neustadter
About The ASCAP Foundation Founded in 1975, The ASCAP Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs. Included in these are songwriting workshops, grants, scholarships, awards, recognition and community outreach programs, and public service projects for senior composers and lyricists. The ASCAP Foundation is supported by contributions from ASCAP members and from music lovers throughout the United States. www.ascapfoundation.org