| The Society honored the
winners of the 35th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor
Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and
new media coverage of music on December 4th.
The winners were honored at a special reception
hosted by ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn
Bergman at Lincoln Center in New York City.
Over the years, tens of thousands of dollars
have been distributed in cash prizes to winning
authors, journalists and broadcast producers
and personalities.
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award
honored the widely-syndicated National Public
Radio program, Fresh Air, and was presented
to program host/co-Executive producer Terry
Gross and co-Executive Producer Danny Miller;
and producing station WHYY Radio, Philadelphia.
Cited in the Television Broadcast category was
Evening at Pops: "Fiddlers Three" produced by
Bill Cosel, WGBH-TV and the Boston Pops Orchestra;
honored as well were Boston Pops Conductor Keith
Lockhart; and Chris Brubeck, composer of Interplay
(which was commissioned for the "Fiddlers Three"
telecast.) The ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award
honored the outstanding web site,www. musicalamerica.
com, Susan A. Elliott, Editor.
A newly established ASCAP Deems Taylor honor,
The Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical
Biography cited Charles R. Cross for his book,
Heavier than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt
Cobain, published by Hyperion. The new
award honors the memory of Billboard Magazine
editor Timothy White, who passed away earlier
this year. Mr. White was himself a former Deems
Taylor recipient, and was the writer of acclaimed
biographies of Bob Marley, Brian Wilson and
James Taylor.
In addition, ASCAP Deems Taylor Special Recognition
Awards were presented to Francis Davis for Like
Young: Jazz, Pop, Youth and Middle Age,
published by Da Capo Press; Ned Rorem for A
Ned Rorem Reader, published by Yale University
Press; William A. Shack for his book Harlem
In Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story Between The
Great Wars, published by University of
California Press; Fred Lerdahl for Tonal
Pitch Space, published by Oxford University
Press; and Geoffrey Himes for his article "Born
on the Bayou" published by No Depression
Magazine; and "Sweet Inspiration" published
by Baltimore City Paper; and Tom Piazza
for "Note In A Bottle" published by The Oxford
American.
Special performances were given by jazz pianist
Cyrus Chestnut (the subject of Geoffrey Himes'
article, "Sweet Inspiration"), and duo Sruli
and Lisa (who performed a Lubavitcher Chanukah
song to celebrate Ellen Koskoff's Music
in Lubavitcher Life).
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