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 ASCAP Composer Paul Moravec Wins 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music
ASCAP Composer Paul Moravec has been awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in Music for Tempest Fantasy, a chamber piece for clarinet and piano trio, which was premiered on May 2, 2003 at Manhattan's Morgan Library by Trio Solisti and clarinetist David Krakauer. Tempest Fantasy is published by Subito Music Publishing Inc. The Pulitzer Prize in Music is awarded "For distinguished musical composition of significant dimension by an American that has had its first performance in the United States during the year." Paul is a member of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Panel, and is a member of ASCAP's Special Classifications Committee. Visit Paul's website at http://paulmoravec.com/ | |
2003 Guggenheim Fellows
 
Martin Bresnick, Anthony Brown
 
Alvin Singleton, Harold Meltzer
BANG ON A CAN MARATHON
 Saturday, June 15, 1-11pm
SHADOW BANG! Opened the June 15th Marathon at 1PM: the NY Premiere of Evan Ziporyn's Bali-Jazz Fusion shadow-puppet spectacle featuring I Wayan Wija - the foremost living Balinese shadow puppeteer in collaboration with the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
ASCAP author member PAUL MULDOON, librettist/poet, received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Listen to the Audio Portrait about Vera of Las Vegas, the opera by Composer Daron Hagen and Librettist Paul Muldoon
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SUSAN BOTTI Appointed Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow by The Cleveland  Orchestra
Susan Botti was selected by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The premiere of Ms. Botti's commissioned composition will be led by Mr. Welser-Möst during the 2004-05 season. In March 2004, a new work by Botti will be given its world premiere by The Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Assistant Conductor Wilson Hermanto.
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Concert composer ELLIOT GOLDENTHAL was the winner of an Academy Award for his score for Frida, directed by ASCAP member Julie Taymor.
Goldenthal studied with Aaron Copland and was commissioned by The ASCAP Foundation to write his first orchestral work in honor of Leonard Bernstein's 70th birthday.
Photo: Jeff Vespa / Wireimage.com
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THE ASCAP FOUNDATION RUDOLPH NISSIM AWARD
 DANIEL KELLOGG
23rd Annual Recipient Of The ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Award
FOUR COMPOSERS RECEIVE SPECIAL DISTINCTION
The Nissim Prize has been awarded to Daniel Kellogg for Jasper and Carnelian, a 12-minute work for orchestra, selected from amongst nearly 300 submissions. More > >
| Commissioned Gabriela Frank, a 2002 Morton Gould Young Composer Award winner, by Gerard Schwarz and the Seattle Symphony to write an orchestra work for the 2005 season. Gaby also has just been named the first winner of the Sackler Music Composition Prize from the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts. Joseph Turrin by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic to write a work for Masur’s final concert with the orchestra. The piece entitled Hemispheres premiered in May at Avery Fisher Hall and toured this summer to Germany and Asia with Masur conducting. Top Featured Richard Adler's music in an in-the-works Broadway revival of Pajama Game, including two new songs. In addition, a full-scale workshop production of a completely revised Kwamina is in development. In the past four years, composer/lyricist Adler (Damn Yankees) has composed five ballet scores, four of which were world-premiered by the Miami City Ballet, the Chicago Ballet Company, the Dallas/Ft. Worth Ballet and the Arlington Ballet.
Chris Hajian's score to Disney's Inspector Gadget 2. The combination orchestral/ techno score was recorded in Sydney, Australia with a 70-piece orchestra. Chris has also completed a score for the HBO documentary, Naked World, the follow-up to Naked States, which Chris Scored two years ago. Both documentaries follow New York Photographer Spencer Tunick on his travels to various locations where he photographs large groups of people posing nude.
John Corigliano's music, performed by the New York Philharmonic, in the HBO documentary In Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01. The documentary, which includes footage from news organizations and nearly 120 amateur photograhers who captured events of that day, also features music of Aaron Copland, Charles Ives and Samuel Barber, recorded especially for the documentary.
Honored Kevin Beavers for being named the fifth Young American Composer-in-Residence at the California Symphony. Beavers recently joined the music faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. Past awards include first prize in the Philadelphia Orchestra's Centennial Composition Competition, and the Rudolph Nissim Prize from ASCAP. Allen Gimbel by his former students with a tribute concert featuring his chamber and solo piano works in Palm Beach, Florida. Gimbel, winner of the Charles Award from the Academy of Arts & Letters and many ASCAP awards now lives in Florida and still lectures and reviews new recordings, although multiple sclerosis has forced his early retirement from University teaching.  | Tim Janis for becoming the first independent artist in 5 years to hit #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover Chart. Janis reached the top of the chart with his National Public Television special companion CD, An American Composer in Concert. Janis has released seven Billboard charting CDs since founding his own label four years ago. His label, Tim Janis Ensemble, was also the first independent label in the Soundscan era to release a #1 Traditional Classical CD with the American Cancer Society all-star benefit CD, Music of Hope. | Daniel Kellogg for being named Young Concert Artists' Composer-in-Residence for 2002-04. In this capacity, he will write commissioned works for two members of the YCA roster. The first of these will be premiered by violinist Nicolas Kendall in his recitals next season at New York's 92nd Street Y and Washington's Kennedy Center. The Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence Program was started in 1994 as an initiative of the YCA Alumni Association. Other previous composers-in-residence –-- Mason Bates and Kenji Bunch –-- are currently on the YCA roster. Mark Kilstofte for being awarded the prestigious 2002-03 Rome Prize to study in Italy for a year. The Rome Prize is awarded in a variety of fields, including architecture, design, literature, musical composition and medieval studies. Kilstofte is one of just two composers selected for this year's prize. Dan Locklair for being named Composer-in-Residence at the Brevard Music Festival 2002. In his post, Locklair oversaw rehearsals and performances of his works, presented two public lectures, taught and presented master classes to the Center's composition students. Selected pieces included Locklair's "Hues for Orchestra"” (Three Brief Tone Poems), “"Dream Steps"” (A Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp) and “"Freedom's Gate"” (A Fanfare for 2 Antiphonal Brass Quartets and Percussion), among other works. Lior Navok for receiving the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund's 2002 Composition Award. Past recipients of the award include Karel Husa, Ned Rorem, Per Norgaard, George Benjamin and others. Composer Lili Boulanger was born in France in 1893 and died at the age of 24 in 1918. In her short life, she made music history by becoming the first woman to win the Prix de Rome. It was in 1913 for her cantata, Faust et Héylèyne. Andrew Rindfleisch for being a recipient of the 2002 Cleveland Arts Prize in Music. The award was presented at a ceremony on October 15 at the Cleveland Museum of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. Huang Ruo for winning the 2002 Brian M. Israel Prize. Composer Ruo, a native of China who now lives in New York City, studied at the Juilliard School. His music has been performed in Amsterdam, Montreal, New York, Chicago, Cleveland and many other U.S. cities. Top Performed Francis Mario D'Amico's “"Fanfare and Elegy for Orchestra"” by the Ocean City Pops Orchestra at the Ocean City Music Pier in Ocean City, New Jersey on September 11, 2002. The work is dedicated to the heroes and victims of 9/11. Top Premiered Joseph Curiale's The Music of Life in its world premiere by the Akron Symphony Orchestra on September 14. A piece written in response to 9/11, Curiale's piece embeds chants for peace from a variety of religious leaders. Ron Foster's Inventing Flight performed by the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and Wright-Patterson's Air Force Band of Flight, directed by Major Alan Sierichs. The concert was performed at the DPO's new concert hall, designed by world renowned architect Cesar Pelli, and featured new commissioned works commemorating the inventive spirit of the Wright Brothers. Foster's work, for orchestra, band and antiphonal brass, was commissioned by the United States Air Force. The concert was a lead-in to recording sessions for the second Dayton Philharmonic CD. Paul Fowler's Michiyuki (for marimba), performed by Naoko Takada at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theatre in Washington, D.C. on November 17. Mitch Glickman and Tom Scott's Symphonic Jazz Orchestra at UCLA's Royce Hall in Los Angeles. Musical Directors Glickman and Scott lead the 72-member orchestra through its first-ever concert. The evening featured the premiere of two newly commissioned works by Lesa Terry and Tom Scott and a performance of Don Sebesky's “"Bela & Bird in B Flat."” The new Symphonic Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to combing the passion of jazz with the power of an orchestra through commissioning, performing and recording new symphonic jazz compositions and resurrecting classic pieces from the rich repertoire. Bezad Ranjbaran's “"Songs of Eternity"” for soprano and orchestra (with text from the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam) was given its world premiere by the Seattle Symphony, conducted by Gerard Schwarz, on its Gala Opening Night at the Benoroya Hotel on September 14th. Steven L. Rosenhaus' Violin Concerto (1994) by violinist Florian Mayer, with Miko Kersten conducting the Dresden Sinfonietta, as part of the 16th Dresden Days of Contemporary Music Festival in Dresden, Germany on October 6. Charles Strouse's Concerto America in its world premiere, performed by the Boston Pops with pianist Jeffrey Biegel and Maestro Keith Lockhart conducting, at Boston's Symphony Hall on June 30. Future performances of the Concerto America will take the work to all 50 states. The piece was written by three-time Tony Award winner Strouse, creator of such Broadway classics as Bye, Bye Birdie, Annie, Golden Boy and Applause. The composer describes the piece as, “"a thematic evocation of my fascination with American popular music that reflects the joy and optimism of America."” Another new Strouse musical, Marty, based on the classic film, also opened recently in Boston. It is a collaboration with lyricist Lee Adams and librettist Rupert Holmes. Top SEND STEPPIN' OUT ITEMS TO: THE EDITOR
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