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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recently honored the winners of the 32nd annual ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and Internet coverage of music. The winners were celebrated December 8, 1999 at a special reception (hosted by ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman) at the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse of Lincoln Center in New York City. Over the years, tens of thousands of dollars have been distributed in cash prizes to winning authors, journalists and broadcast producers and personalities.
This year marks the first-ever presentation of ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards to Internet web sites for outstanding music-related content. Awards were presented to: NewMusicBox.org, the online magazine of the American Music Center, Frank J. Oteri, Editor and Publisher, Richard Kessler, Executive Director; and to sputnik7.com, David Beal, CEO, and Jim Berry, Director of Creative Production.
The ASCAP-Deems Taylor Television Broadcast Award was presented to "Sessions at West 54th" (WNET-TV), with awards honoring Executive Producer Jeb Brien, Series Producer Monica Hardiman, Host John Hiatt and WNET's David Horn.
The ASCAP-Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award honored "Knowing the Score" with awards to program creator and host Dan Welcher and KMFA-FM, Austin, TX.
ASCAP-Deems Taylor Special Recognition Awards were presented to Charles Bernstein, for "Musical Shares" published by the Society of Composers and Lyricists; Michelle Kisliuk for Seize the Dance published by Oxford University Press; Robert G. O'Meally for The Jazz Cadence of American Culture published by Columbia University Press and Michael Roberts for "The Spice of Life" published in Denver Westword.
The authors and publishers of the eight award-winning books honored at the ceremony were:
Katherine Bergeron for Decadent Enchantments by the University of California Press.
Adrienne Fried Block for Amy Beach -- Passionate Victorian by Oxford University Press.
Bob Gilmore for Harry Partch by Yale University Press.
Peter D. Goldsmith for Making People's Music: Moe Asch and Folkways Records by Smithsonian Institution Press.
Mark N. Grant for Maestros of the Pen by Northeastern University Press.
Dave A. Jasen and Gene Jones for Rhythm Around: Black Popular Songwriters 1880-1930 by Schirmer Books.
Peter Pettinger for Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings by Yale University Press.
Michael Tisserand for The Kingdom of Zydeco by Arcade Publishing.
The nine writers and editors of journal, magazine and newspaper articles, program notes and/or liner notes and their respective publishers honored at the ceremony were:
Shirley Fleming for her article "Soup to Nuts: Ensembles Cook Up Their Own CD's" published in Chamber Music
Tony Glover for his liner notes "Bob Dylan -- "Live 1966: The Royal Albert Hall" Concert" issued by Columbia Records/ Legacy Recordings.
Gerri Hirshey for her article "B.B. King" published in Rolling Stone.
James Keller for his article "Our Bodies, Our Instruments: Ergonomic Design" published in Chamber Music.
Ralph Locke for his article "Cutthroats and Casbah Dancers, Muezzins and Timeless Sands: Musical Images of the Middle East" published by University of California Press.
Timothy Mangan for his articles "The Iconoclast Who Came in From the Cold," published in Fi; "Ojai Festival,1998" (program notes) published by Ojai Festival, Ltd. and "Sounding Russian," published in The Orange County Register.
Ken Mandelbaum for his West Side Story liner notes, issued by Sony Classical; Charles Aaron and Sia Michael for their respective articles "The Notorious B.I.G." and "The Mourning After" published in Spin; Howard Reich for his article "Born on the Southside" published in The Chicago Tribune.
The ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards are presented in honor of Deems Taylor, a distinguished composer, music critic, editor, and radio commentator who served as ASCAP's President from 1942-1948. Nine distinguished ASCAP writer and publisher members served as judges for this year's ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award competition: Charles Dodge, Julie Flanders, Deborah Frost, Phil Galdston, Kyle Gann, Larry John McNally, Richard Miller, Paul Moravec, and Matthew Shipp.
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the world's largest performing rights organization, with over 90,000 active composer, lyricist and music publisher members. ASCAP is committed to protecting the rights of its members by licensing and collecting royalties for the public performance of their copyrighted works, and then distributing these fees to the Society's members based on performances. ASCAP's repertory spans the entire spectrum of music -- from pop to symphonic, rock to gospel, Latin to country to jazz, rhythm and blues, theater, film and television music. ASCAP's Board of Directors is made up solely of writers and publishers, elected by the membership.
