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Yehudi Wyner’s Piano Concerto Wins Pulitzer; Thelonious Monk Receives Special Citation
BMI classical composer Yehudi Wyner has won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his piano concerto "Chiavi in Mano," it was announced by Columbia University on April 17. The concerto was premiered by the Boston Symphony on February 17, 2005. Yehudi…
From News, posted 4.18.06
‘Minimalist Jukebox’ Gets Maximum Exposure
BMI was on hand at a recent reception in honor of Grammy Award-winning composer John Adams. The event, hosted and sponsored by Boosey & Hawkes and Hendon Music at the Sundance Institute in Beverly Hills, commemorated the BMI composer's recent role as Festival Director of "Minimalist Jukebox," a celebration of film, music and the minimalist movement held at various concert halls around the Los Angeles…
From News, posted 4.12.06
53rd Annual BMI Student Composer Award Winners Announced
Composer George Crumb Receives Lifetime Achievement Award Eight young classical composers, ranging in age from 10 to 25, have been named winners in the 53rd Annual BMI Student Composer Awards. Del R. Bryant, BMI President & CEO, announced the decisions of the jury and presented the awards at a reception held June 6 at Le Parker Meridien Hotel in New York City. Composer Milton…
From News, posted 6.06.05
Ray Charles and ‘Company’ Top List of BMI Grammy Winners
Legendary soul singer Ray Charles, whose posthumously-released album of duets Genius Loves Company earned him five trophies at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, leads the list of BMI winners, announced last night (2/13) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Charles' Album of the Year win marked the first time the top album prize has gone to a deceased artist since John Lennon received…
From News, posted 2.13.05
Composer John Adams Wins $100,000 Nemmers Prize
Congratulations to BMI composer John Adams who has won the inaugural $100,000 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition. The biennial award, administered by Northwestern University School of Music, honors classical music composers of outstanding achievement. Adams was cited by the selection committee for "his fusing of a wide range of styles into a voice entirely new and distinctive, and for his connection…
From News, posted 6.13.04
BMI Composers Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
Congratulations to BMI composers Robert Beaser and Bernard Rands who have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The honor of election is considered to be the highest formal recognition of artistic merit in the US. The Academy was founded in 1898 to "foster, assist, and sustain an interest in literature, music and the fine arts." …
From News, posted 2.25.04
Don Davis
The sci-fi trilogy The Matrix not only revealed a hidden world programmed by evil computers, it also cast a spotlight on Emmy-winning composer and orchestrator (“The Beauty and the Beast,” “Seaquest DSV”) Don Davis. "I knew these guys had quite a bit up their sleeves," says the Anaheim-born, UCLA grad, who majored in music theory and composition. "But, I had no idea it would turn into working…
From MusicWorld, posted 8.28.03
John Adams Finds Fame Without Fanfare
This past April, composer John Adams was awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Music for On the Transmigration of Souls, a 25-minute work for chorus, children’s chorus, sound design and orchestra commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to commemorate the Sept. 11 attacks. The piece premiered on Sept. 19, 2002 and also employed ambient city sounds and voices reading names of the missing. But Adams had…
From MusicWorld, posted 8.26.03
John Adams Wins Pulitzer Prize in Music
BMI composer John Adams has been awarded the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Music for his orchestral work, On the Transmigration of Souls, a memorial to September 11. Commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, the piece was intended, as Adams wrote in the program note, to create a "memory space" where "you can be alone with your thoughts and emotions." Scored for orchestra, SATB chorus, children�s chorus and…
From News, posted 4.10.03
Sheryl Crow, Eminem, Norah Jones Top Grammy Nominees List
BMI songwriter/artists Sheryl Crow, Eminem and Norah Jones lead the list of nominees for this year's Grammy Awards with five nods each. Nominees were announced today (1/7) at a press conference at New York's Madison Square Garden. The 45th Grammy Awards will be held on February 23 at the Garden, and will be broadcast live on CBS from 8-11:30 (ET/PT).
From News, posted 1.06.03
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