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| Great Direction: ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman is pictured with Margaret Bodde, co-producer of Martin Scorcese's No Direction Home: Bob Dylan, the ASCAP Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award-winning program for 2005. Margaret accepted on behalf of the creative team behind the film. |
ASCAP presented its 38th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music on December 15 in Manhattan. The winning writers and publishers were honored at a special reception, hosted by ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman, held at The Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award honored two radio programs: 20/20 Hearing, produced and hosted by John Clare, and Classical Discoveries, produced and hosted by Marvin Rosen. Cited in the Television Broadcast category was No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. The documentary film, directed by Martin Scorsese, was produced by Scorsese (Sikelia Productions), Margaret Bodde (Sikelia Productions), Susan Lacy (American Masters), Jeff Rosen (Grey Water Park Productions), Nigel Sinclair (Spitfire Pictures), Anthony Wall (BBC), Paul G. Allen & Jody Patton (Vulcan Productions), Executive Producers, and edited by David Tedeschi.
The ASCAP Deems Taylor Internet Award honored the contemporary classical music portal, Sequenza21 (www.Sequenza21.com), edited by Jerry Bowles.
The Timothy White Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the pop music field cited Gene Lees for his book, Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer, published by Pantheon Books. This award was established to honor the memory of Billboard Magazine editor Timothy White, who passed away in early 2002. Mr. White was himself a former Deems Taylor recipient, and was the writer of acclaimed biographies of Bob Marley, Brian Wilson and James Taylor.
The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the concert music field honored Kevin Bazzana for his book, Wondrous Strange: The Life And Art Of Glenn Gould, published by Oxford University Press. This award was established to honor the memory of Slonimsky (1894- 1995), the Russian-American composer, conductor, musicologist and critic. Slonimsky was the writer of Baker's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, The Lexicon of Musical Invective and an autobiography.
The Béla Bartók Award for Outstanding Ethnomusicological Book honored Marc Perlman for Unplayed Melodies: Javanese Gamelan and the Genesis of Music Theory, published by The University of California Press. This new award honors the memory of Bartók (1881-1945), the great Hungarian-American composer and ethnomusicologist.
The event featured performances by Broadway/cabaret vocalist KT Sullivan, composer/ pianist Tania Leon, pianist Trudy Chan, and the Jazz Museum in Harlem Quartet, led by Loren Schoenberg. All the music was related to the winning books and articles.
The members of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards Panel for 2005 were Charles Dodge, Paul Moravec, Frank Oteri, Richard Miller, Julie Flanders, David Massengill, Matthew Shipp, Larry John McNally and Wesley Stace.
The authors and publishers of the books honored at the ceremony and the writers and editors of journal, magazine and newspaper articles, program notes and/or liner notes and their respective publishers, as well as a list of "special recognition awards," can be found at www.ascap.com/eventsawards/awards/deems_taylor.
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