Winter 2005

Ninth Annual ASCAP Foundation Awards

Special Performances By The Persuasions and Madeleine Peyroux Honor Lifetime Recipients

The Ninth annual ASCAP Foundation Awards ceremony and reception were held on December 2nd at the Walter Reade Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Honors were presented to a wide variety of Award, Scholarship and Fellowship recipients, all of whom benefit from programs of The ASCAP Foundation. Highlights of the evening included some special live performances. The a capella group The Persuasions performed "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" in honor of Bob Russell. Russell's grandson, Luther Russell, performed "Bluebird in the Rain," the last song written by Bob Russell.

Madeleine Peyroux performed the classic song, "Beyond the Sea," backed by Matt Munisteri and Brock Mumford, in honor of Jack Lawrence.

Molly Hyman and Simohn Spearitt accepting The ASCAP Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of their father, Bob Russell.

ASCAP Foundation Board member Stephen Schwartz with the Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award recipient Eric Whitacre

ASCAP Foundation Board member Jay Morgenstern with the Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell City College Scholarship recipient Hector Marin.

Jazz historian Robert O'Meally with the Louis Armstrong Award honoring W.C. Handy recipient, Sãde Hewitt

Rachel Cahn Leifer, granddaughter of Sammy Cahn, presenting the Sammy Cahn Award to Dan Mackenzie

ASCAP Foundation President Marilyn Bergman with Luther Russell, the grandson of Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Bob Russell

Frederick Loewe Scholarship recipient Reza Jacobs with Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Jack Lawrence and ASCAP Foundation VP/Executive Director Karen Sherry

ASCAP Foundation Board member Robert Kimball with Harold Arlen Musical Theater Award recipients, Cheri Coons and Chuck Larkin

ASCAP Foundation Board member Irwin Z. Robinson with Blaine Brown, recipient of the Leiber & Stoller Music Music Scholarship

ASCAP Foundation Board member James McBride with Max Dreyfus Scholarship recipient, Caroline Murphy

ASCAP Foundation Board member Bruce Broughton with the Steve Kaplan TV & Film Studies Scholarship recipient, Ted Masur

Louis Armstrong Scholarship at Queens College recipient, Craig Bailey, with the Henry Mancini Music Scholarship recipient Edna Lorena Gil

Foundation Awards Story