Broadway's Stephen Sondheim Receives
Foundation Richard Rodgers Award
The
seventh annual ASCAP Foundation Awards and Scholarships
Reception were held last night at the Walter Reade
Theater at Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Honors
were presented to a wide variety of Award, Scholarship,
Fellowship and Residency recipients, all of whom
benefit from programs of The ASCAP Foundation.
The reception was hosted by Marilyn Bergman, President
of The ASCAP Foundation. A highlight of the evening
was the presentation of The ASCAP Foundation Richard
Rodgers Award to Broadway lyricist and composer
Stephen Sondheim for his lifetime achievements
in the American musical theater. Sondheim is the
composer-lyricist of the Broadway classics A
Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park
with George, Pacific Overtures and
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.
He also served as the lyricist for the legendary
musicals, West Side Story (music by Leonard
Bernstein) and Gypsy (music by Jule Styne).
Sondheim’s catalogue of songs includes “Everything’s
Coming Up Roses,” “Somewhere”
and “Send in the Clowns.”
A complete list of the evening’s
honorees follows:
- Louis Armstrong Scholarship (Queens College)
– Sandra Hempel
- Boosey & Hawkes Scholarship honoring
Aaron Copland – Kwami Coleman
- Leiber & Stoller Scholarship –
Andrew Roitstein
- Leonard Bernstein Fellowship at Tanglewood
– Jeff Myers
- Max Dreyfus Scholarship (NYU Tisch) –
Andrew Elsesser
- Henry Mancini Music Scholarships –
Nathaniel Fox Beversluis, Gordon
Haab II
- Michael Masser Scholarship – Kelly
Porter
- Dreyfus/Warner Chappell/CCNY Scholarship
– Sebastian Cruz
- Ira Gershwin Award (LaGuardia HS) –
Shan Shan Na & Karen Yim
- Frederick Loewe Scholarship (NYU Tisch)
– Carmel E. Dean
- Morton Gould Young Composer Award –
Gabriela Frank
- Rudolf Nissim Prize – John C.
Ross
- Richard Rodgers New Horizon Award –
Zina Goldhirsch & Marcy Heisler
- ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award –
Lori McKenna
- ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award –
Stephen Sondheim
The ASCAP Foundation is dedicated
to supporting American music creators and encouraging
the development of American music through educational
programs. Included in these are songwriting workshops,
grants, scholarships, music education programs,
and public service projects for senior composers
and lyricists. The programs of The ASCAP Foundation
are supported by contributions from ASCAP members
and music lovers throughout the United States.