Marilyn Bergman presented the Lifetime Achievement Award recognizing the late Bob Russell to his daughter Molly Hyman
Karen Sherry, ASCAP Foundation Vice President and Executive Director, with Sammy Cahn Award recipient Daniel Mackenzie
Colleen McDonough (l.) Director of The ASCAP Foundation, with Bob
Russell's grandson, Luther (r.)
ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman presents the Lifetime Achievement Award to Jack Lawrence
ASCAP Foundation board member Stephen Schwartz presented the Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award to Eric Whitacre
Red-ribboned ASCAP Foundation honorees recognized on December 2nd included (l to r) Max Dreyfus Scholarship recipient Caroline Murphy, Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell CCNY Scholarship recipient Hector Marin and Morton Gould Young Composer Award recipient Sean McClowry
ASCAP Foundation board member Robert Kimball presented the Michael Masser Award Honoring Whitney Houston to Julia Blue
ASCAP Foundation Vice President Irwin Z. Robinson presented the Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship to
Blaine Brown
Robert O’Meally, Director of the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University, presented the Louis Armstrong Award Honoring W.C. Handy to Sáde Hewitt
Craig Bailey, Louis Armstrong Scholarship recipient, with Henry Mancini Institute Scholar Edna Lorena Gil
Floria Lasky of the Frederick Loewe Foundation presented the Frederick Loewe Scholarship to Reza Jacobs
The Persuasions performed "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" to honor lyricist Bob Russell
Madeleine Peyroux performed Jack Lawrence's "Tenderly" and "Beyond the Sea"