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Summer 2004
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ESPY Awards after-party at The Skybar
After the ESPY Awards in Hollywood in July, ASCAP's Alonzo Robinson's congratulated multi-platinum artist Usher and super-producer Jermaine Dupri on their latest success with the album Confessions. Pictured (l-r) are Dupri, Usher and Robinson. |
Kaufman Center Honors Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz was honored by the Kaufman Center with the Creative Arts Award on May 24th at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. Pictured (back row,
l-r) composer Shelly Markham, Stephen Schwartz, Andrea Marcovicci, composer Alex Rybeck, singer Scott Coulter and (front row, l-r) singers Liz Callaway, Debbie Gravitte and Teri Ralston. PHOTO BY WENDY MOGER-BROSS |
At the Record Plant
Hitco's Shawn Holliday is pictured with up-and-comer Slim Thug and ASCAP's Ian Burke at the Record Plant/Los Angeles at recording session. |
Celebrating the Future
Marilyn Harris, ASCAP's Charlyn Bernal and Mark Winkler are
pictured above at the Catalina Bar & Grill celebrating the release of Marilyn's breakout CD of new
original jazz songs, Future Street, featuring instrumental solos by Wayne Bergeron, Pete Christlieb, Dan Higgins, Bob Leatherbarrow, Bill Liston, Warren Luening, Andy Martin, Dave Carpenter and a vocal duet with Mark Winkler, co-writer on the album. |
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Lori McKenna
Receives the
Abe Olman Scholarship from ASCAP and the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Lori McKenna, rising young star, mother of five and Stoughton, Massachusetts native, has received the Abe Olman Scholarship from ASCAP and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The honor was presented to McKenna at a special Songwriters Hall of Fame CD release party on June 8 at the Cutting Room in New York City. A former winner of ASCAP’s Sammy Cahn Songwriter Award, McKenna is currently touring in support of her breakthrough album, Bittertown (Signature Sounds/ Rounder Europe). With strong sales, rave reviews and airplay around the country, Bittertown is currently climbing the charts on AAA, public radio and Americana formats. McKenna’s summer was highlighted by an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in August. McKenna’s music is also included on a Starbucks music sampler that will be available across the country. For more info on Lori and Bittertown, visit www.lorimckenna.com. Mckenna (left) is pictured with ASCAP’s Sue Devine at The Cutting Room.
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ASCAP Presents
Peter Cincotti at the
2004 PROMAX Convention
ASCAP presented a special performance by member Peter Cincotti at the 49th Annual PROMAX convention held at the New York Hilton in New York City. PROMAX is a leading association of promotion, broadcast design and marketing professionals. Twenty-year-old pop/jazz pianist, vocalist, composer and arranger Cincotti has been making incredible strides since the release of his self-titled debut CD, Peter Cincotti, in March 2003. Produced by the legendary Grammy Award winning Phil Ramone, the CD reached #1 on Billboard's Traditional Jazz Chart, where it remains a top seller.
Cincotti has been profiled on CBS News Sunday Morning, NewsNight with Aaron Brown on CNN, Breakfast with the Arts on A&E and The Pulse on Fox Network. He has also been featured on NBC's The Today Show, The Conan O'Brien Show, The Craig Kilborn Show and Saturday The Early Show on CBS. Peter has performed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, the Newport, Monterey, Montreux, Detroit and Montreal Jazz Festivals, as well as the top concert halls and jazz clubs in London, Paris, Hamburg, Milan, Madrid and Tokyo.
On The Moon is Peter's new album. Once again helmed by Phil Ramone, released on Concord Records in September and kicked off with a Today Show appearance.
Cincotti is pictured above performing at the PROMAX convention. Also pictured above (l-r) are PROMAX CEO Jim Chabin, Cincotti and ASCAP's Fae Kopacka and Lauren Iossa. |
ASCAP and APRA
ASCAP’s Todd Brabec and Nancy Knutsen traveled to Melbourne and Sydney in May to attend the Australian society's APRA Awards, and to meet with APRA members and the Australian music industry.
Picture right, at the APRA Awards at Melbourne's historic Regent Theatre are Brabec; APRA songwriter/Board member Jenny Morris; Knutsen; Managing Director of Universial Music Publishing/Australia and APRA Board member Bob Aird; and APRA's Chief Information Officer Gus Jansen.
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Olivia Newton-John is pictured with ASCAP's Todd Brabec at the 2004 APRA Awards picking up the award for Most Performed Foreign Work for Joni Mitchell's “Big Yellow Taxi.” |
Brabec and Knutsen were also featured guest speakers at The Australian Guild of Screen Composers' lecture series “On the Couch” in Sydney. Pictured above (l-r) APRA's Manager of Film and Television Music, Michelle O'Donnell; Guild President and composer David Hirschfelder; composer/ songwriter Iva Davies, who received an ASCAP Film & TV Award this year for his score from Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World; Knutsen and Brabec. |
APRA composer Richard Tognetti, who co-composed Master and Commander, was unable to attend this year's ASCAP Film & TV Awards in Los Angeles. Knutsen presented his award to him at the offices of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, where he is Artistic Director and Lead Violin. |
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