Broadway Great Stephen Schwartz Honored With ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award at 16th Annual ASCAP Foundation Awards & Scholarships Ceremonies in Manhattan
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 12/07/11 -- honored composer/lyricist for his lifetime contributions to the Musical Theater with On hand to make the presentation was Richard Rodgers' grandson and fellow musical theater composer (The Light in the Piazza). The accolade was presented today during the Foundation's 16th Annual Awards Ceremony, held at the Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, in New York City. The invitation-only event, hosted by ASCAP Foundation President , also honored a wide variety of Scholarship and Award recipients, all of whom benefit from programs of The ASCAP Foundation.
Over the course of a four-decade career, New York native Stephen Schwartz has created a major body of musical theater works, including and the current, long-running hit, Schwartz, the recipient of multiple Oscar and Grammy Awards and a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, has also contributed lyrics to the scores of the films The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Pocahontas, and both music and lyrics to Prince of Egypt and Enchanted. He is also notable as the Artistic Director of the acclaimed ASCAP Foundation/Disney Musical Theater Workshop since 1994. Other participants in this evening's tribute to Schwartz were cabaret and Broadway stars Judy Kuhn and Scott Coulter, both of whom performed Schwartz songs.
Four newly named ASCAP Foundation scholarship and/or award programs have been established in 2011 and the beneficiaries of each new program were honored at the December 7 event. The new programs include: The ASCAP Foundation "Reach Out and Touch" Award in honor of Nick Ashford to provide promising songwriters with financial assistance for professional recordings of their original songs; The ASCAP Foundation Freddy Bienstock Scholarship & Internship which provides the opportunity for a music business student interested in music publishing to intern at a major publishing company; The ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, presented to an ASCAP member who is a promising musical theater lyricist or to a composer/lyricist team; and The ASCAP Foundation Louis Prima Award which is presented to a talented vocalist or musician attending the New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts.
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Harold Adamson Lyric Award
The ASCAP Foundation Robert Allen Award
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Harold Arlen Film & TV Award
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarships
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Armstrong Scholarship (in honor of W.C. Handy)
The ASCAP Foundation "Reach Out and Touch" Award in honor of Nick Ashford
The ASCAP Foundation Charlotte V. Bergen Scholarship
The ASCAP Foundation Irving Berlin Summer Camp Scholarship
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Leonard Bernstein Award
The ASCAP Foundation Freddy Bienstock Scholarship & Internship
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Boosey & Hawkes Young Composer Award
(in honor of Aaron Copland)
The ASCAP Foundation Leon Brettler Award
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Irving Burgie Scholarship
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Irving Caesar Scholarship
The ASCAP Foundation Sammy Cahn Award
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Desmond Child Anthem Award
The ASCAP Foundation Cy Coleman Award
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Eunice & Hal David Merit Award
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Fran Morgenstern Davis Scholarship
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John Denver Music Scholarship
Supported by BMG Chrysalis
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Jamie deRoy & friends Award
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Louis Dreyfus Warner/Chappell
City College Scholarship
(in honor of George & Ira Gershwin)
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Max Dreyfus Scholarship
The ASCAP Foundation
Film Scoring Scholarship
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Ira Gershwin Scholarship
The ASCAP Foundation Jay Gorney Award
The ASCAP Foundation Mary Rodgers/ Lorenz Hart Award
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Bart Howard Songwriting Scholarship
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Morton Gould Young Composer Award
The ASCAP Foundation BMG Chrysalis
Scholarship in honor of Quincy Jones
The ASCAP Foundation Leo Kaplan Award
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Steve Kaplan TV & Film Studies Scholarship
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Michelle and Dean Kay Award
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Leiber & Stoller Music Scholarship
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Livingston & Evans Music Scholarship
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Frederick Loewe Scholarship
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Barbara and John LoFrumento Award
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Michael Masser Scholarship
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Henry Mancini Music Fellowship
The ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize
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Rudy Perez Songwriting Scholarship
The ASCAP Foundation Cole Porter Award
The ASCAP Foundation Louis Prima Award
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Joe Raposo Children's Music Award
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Joan and Irwin Robinson Scholarship
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Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award
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David Rose Centennial Award
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Young Jazz Composer Award
Founded in 1975, The ASCAP Foundation is a charitable organization dedicated to supporting American music creators and encouraging their development through music education and talent development programs. Included in these are songwriting workshops, grants, scholarships, awards, recognition and community outreach programs, and public service projects for senior composers and lyricists. The ASCAP Foundation is supported by contributions from ASCAP members and from music lovers throughout the United States.
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