Leading lights and young composers share the spotlight at ASCAP"s ninth annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards
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Award Recipients and Presenters, together with ASCAP's Frances Richard and Cia Toscanini |
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The ninth annual ASCAP Concert Music Awards were held May 22, 2008 at The Times Center in New York City. ASCAP member, radio host and performer Peter Schickele again hosted the event as he has done each year. The event recognizes the achievements of ASCAP's 2008 Concert Music honorees, who represent the diverse aesthetic spectrum of the concert music world. Among the presenters were David Del Tredici, Heather Hitchens, Melinda Wagner, Sebastian Currier, Peter Schickele, James M. Kendrick, Stephen Paulus, Paul Lansky, Doug Wood, Steven Burke, Tania Le�n, and ASCAP's Frances Richard and Cia Toscanini. John Corigliano, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the Grawemeyer Award, the Academy Award for best film Score, and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, was honored with the Aaron Copland Award. ASCAP celebrated the 30th Anniversary of Chanticleer by honoring ASCAP member, composer, arranger and Chanticleer Music Director Joseph Jennings, for his dedication to the enrichment of the vocal repertory and his advocacy for the music of our time. ASCAP honored JoAnn Falletta, Music Director of the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Virginia Symphony, whose career-long advocacy for American composers has made her a leading force for the music of our time. David Lang was also honored for being the recipient of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion. The recipients of the 2008 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards were presented and congratulated.
View the letter from New York Governor David Paterson congratulating this year�s ASCAP Concert Music honorees.
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