JUDY,JUDY,JUDY
Collins presented with The ASCAP Foundation Champion Award at 13th Annual Awards Ceremony
On December 10, The ASCAP Foundation honored legendary songwriter, singer and recording artist Judy Collins with The ASCAP Foundation Champion Award for music in the service of vital causes dedicated to a better world. The accolade was presented during the Foundation’s 13th Annual Awards Ceremony at the Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. The event, hosted by ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman, also honored a wide variety of Scholarship and Award recipients, all of whom benefit from programs of The ASCAP Foundation.
Judy Collins has a long and distinguished record as a social activist and humanitarian. In the 1960s, her beautiful voice rang out for civil rights and in opposition to the Vietnam War. An early environmentalist, Collins dedicated her best-selling 1970 album,
Whales and Nightingales, to saving the endangered humpback species of whale. For many years, Collins has served as a UNICEF representative with a special interest in the campaign to destroy existing landmines and abolish their use. In recent decades, Collins has also become a visible and outspoken advocate for the prevention of suicide and for the understanding of victims of depression and substance abuse.
The Colorado-raised Collins has been a force in American music and culture since breaking through as a folk artist in the early 1960s. Since then, she has also recorded contemporary pop, Broadway show tunes and Tin Pan Alley standards; along the way, Collins helped introduce the world to the music of such notable songwriters as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. In addition, Collins has written many songs which are celebrated in a new album called
Born to the Breed (Wildflower Records), featuring renditions of her songs by veteran and new artists including Chrissie Hynde, Joan Baez, Dolly Parton, Leonard Cohen and RufusWainwright.
Commenting on the award, ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman said: "Judy Collins is a sublime musical artist whose social conscience has always been an integral part of her art. Her recordings and her books reflect a person who is extraordinarily sensitive to the human condition. Her advocacy on issues ranging from peace to social justice to mental health issues is to be applauded. For these reasons and more, we are proud to present Judy with The ASCAP Foundation Champion Award."
To celebrate the award to Collins, her friend and admirer, singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega ("Luka," "Tom’s Diner") performed "
Since You’ve Asked," a song that appeared on Collins's classic 1967 album Wildflowers, and the first song ever written by Collins.
Other performance highlights featured some of the evenings scholarship and award honorees including: Emily Bear, Linda Oh, Cinco Paul and Mike Willis.
The 2008 ASCAP Foundation Scholarship and Award Honorees
The ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Lyric Award
Christopher Dimond - Musical Theatre
Dustin James - Country
The ASCAP Foundation Robert Allen Award
Shwa Losben
The ASCAP Foundation Harold Arlen Award
Cinco Paul - Musical Theater
Sascha Peres - Film & TV
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship
Dean Saghafi-Ezaz
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Jazz Scholarship Honoring Duke Ellington
Mark Einhorn, Colin Gordon
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship Honoring W.C. Handy
Felicia Bennett, Tyrell Brown
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship at the University of New Orleans
Adam R. Bock
The ASCAP Foundation Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship
Peng-Peng Gong
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Berlin Summer Camp Scholarship
Ilana Rainero-de Haan
The ASCAP Foundation Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship
Jeff Stanek
The ASCAP Foundation Boosey & Hawkes
Young Composer Award Honoring Aaron Copland
Christopher Castro
The ASCAP Foundation Leon Brettler Award
Mike Willis
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Burgie Scholarship
William Wells
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Caesar Scholarship
Matija Budisin, Daniel Lofaso, Michael Lofaso,
Jose Serrano, Elvis Vanterpool-Krajnak
The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award
Cinco Paul
The ASCAP Foundation Cherry Lane Foundation/Music Alive! Scholarship
in honor of Quincy Jones
Gregory Watkins
The ASCAP Foundation Cy Coleman Award
Molly Gachignard
The ASCAP Foundation Eunice & Hal David Instructor-in-Residence Award
Pat Bass
The ASCAP Foundation Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship
Josh Freilich, Carla Jablonski
The ASCAP Foundation John Denver Music Scholarships supported by Music Alive!
and the Cherry Lane Foundation
James Cowan, Corey Hawkins
The ASCAP Foundation Jamie deRoy & Friends Award
Johnny Rodgers
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell City College Scholarship
Honoring George & Ira Gershwin
Ziv Shalev
The ASCAP Foundation Max Dreyfus Scholarship
Felice Kuan
The ASCAP Foundation Fellowship for Composition & Film Scoring
Gavin Keese
The ASCAP Foundation Ira Gershwin Scholarship
Dwight Rivera
The ASCAP Foundation Steve Kaplan TV & Film Studies Scholarship
Patrick Murray
The ASCAP Foundation Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship
Alin Melik-Adamyan, Erik Muench
The ASCAP Foundation Livingston & Evans Music Scholarship
Ryan Garrett
The ASCAP Foundation Frederick Loewe Scholarship
Mark Evans
The ASCAP Foundation Henry Mancini Music Scholarship
Ernest Adzentoivich
The ASCAP Foundation Michael Masser Scholarship
Mellisa Andrea Batallès, Simon Wiskowski, Noah Yaghoubian
The ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
John Supko: The Leo Kaplan Award
Timothy Andres, Emily Bear, Yuri Boguinia, Ryan Brown, Paul Dooley, Sean Friar, Judd Greenstein, Eric Guinivan, Trevor Gureckis, Andrew Hsu, Evan Johnson, Elizabeth A. Kelly, Martin Kennedy, Angel Lam, Jane Lange, Wei-Chieh Lin, Javier Jimmy Lopez, Paula Matthusen, Missy Mazzoli, Eric Nathan, Douglas Pew, Thomas Reeves, Chris Rogerson, Natasha Sinha, Kenneth David Stewart, Conrad Tao, Siddarth Viswanathan, Zachary Wadsworth, Daniel Wohl, and Cynthia Wong
The ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize
Jack Jarrett
The ASCAP Foundation Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship
Raquel Borges
The ASCAP Foundation Joan & Irwin Robinson Scholarship
Kevin Dalias
The ASCAP Foundation David Rose Scholarship
Jeff Kryka
The ASCAP Foundation Vanguard Award
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
The ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Awards Sponsored by the Gibson Foundation
Roy Assaf, Sharel Cassity, Michael Dease, Jesse Elder, Quamon Fowler, Ross Garren, Tyler Gilmore, Nicholas Grondin, Alex Heitlinger, Bryson Kern, Pascal Le Boeuf, Remy Le Boeuf, Ben Markley, Linda Oh, Rick Parker, Joshua Richman, Sherisse Rogers, Kendrick Scott, Jaleel Shaw, Stephen Smith, and Omar Thomas
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