Shown (l-r): Matthew Hardy, Sean Hartley, Randy Klein, Ron Barnett, Greg Edwards, Eric March, jeff Ward, Matt Schatz, Phillip Chernyak, Patrick Cook, , Mary Liz McNamara, Richard Engquist, Frank Evans, Alison Hubbard, Kim oler, Ray Bokhour, Phoebe Kreutz, BMI’s Jean Banks, and Daniel Israel. Not pictured: Simon Gray

The new musicals showcased included The Suicide by Raymond Bokhour and Simon Gray; The Thing About Joe by Randy Klein and Matthew Hardy; Saloon Songs by Richard Engquist; and The Dirty Hippie Jam Band by Dan Israel and Phoebe Kreutz. Other writers included Mary Liz McNamara, Sean Hartley, Greg Edwards, Eric March, Jeff Ward, Matt Schatz, Phillip Chernyak, Alison Hubbard and Kim Oler. Previous smoker participants include Best Musical Tony Award-winners Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Avenue Q); Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer (I’m Getting My Act Together…); Eric Rockwell and Joann Bogart (The Musical of Musicals, The Musical); and Amanda Green and Tom Kitt (High Fidelity). The event was produced by the Workshop’s Artistic Coordinator Patrick Cook and Special Events Coordinator Frank Evans. The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop, a 2006 Tony Honor recipient, Drama Desk Award and Drama League Award winner for Excellence in Musical Theatre, was founded in 1961 by the late Lehman Engel, dean of American musical theatre, to create a setting where new writers could learn their craft.

This prestigious award was established in 1997 by Jerry Bock, BMI composer of such classics as Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, She Loves Me, The Apple Tree and The Rothschilds. The winner was personally chosen by Bock from the collective output of musicals developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop.

Pictured after the presentation are BMI Foundation President Ralph Jackson, Workshop Artistic Coordinator Pat Cook, Jerry Bock Award winner Barry Wyner, Workshop Steering Committee member Frank Evans, composer Jerry Bock, BMI Foundation Treasurer Gary Roth, BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and BMI Workshop Director Jean Banks

A hip update of Cyrano, Calvin Berger chronicles 12th grader Calvin Berger as he grapples with his insecurity about the size of his nose. Lacking the courage to ask out the girl of his dreams, he instead communicates his feelings to her through the handsome new kid in school...which only makes him want her more. The award-winning musical was recently previewed at Musicals Tonight!

Award recipient Barry Wyner is congratulated by composer Jerry Bock

Wyner's other original musicals include Sugar Plum (produced at Company Carolina and Gloucester Stage), Something to Say (reading, Manhattan Theater Club) and Kelleher Was Dumbstruck (produced at Access Theater, NYC). His emerging career and involvement with the BMI Workshop was chronicled on a Japanese state television documentary on NHK Network last spring. Previous winners of the Bock Award include Alison Hubbard and Kim Oler for The Enchanted Cottage. Ben Schaechter, Frank Evans and Julie Gilbert for Dinner at Eight, Jay Gaither and Cheryl Hawkins for Hurricane, and David Dreyfus and Jeffrey Hardy for A Trip to the Footbinder.

MTC's Michael Bush talks to BMI composer Maury Yeston and Workshop Artistic Coordinator Patrick Cook

Performers included Tony Award-winning actor and BMI Broadway writer Michael Rupert, Obie Award winner Eddie Korbich, as well as Valerie Fagan ("Forbidden Broadway"), Nora Mae Lyng ("Amour"), Jim Stanek ("The Rivals," "Funny Thing..."), Leah Hocking ("Dracula," "All Shook Up"), Sebastian Arcelus ("Rent"), Tom Keeling ("Les Miserables") and Matt McGrath ("Cabaret," Boys Don't Cry).

The cast and writers gather after the showcase

Workshop members Warren Loy, Neil Bartram, Michael Ogborn, Martin Fernandi and Susan Murray performed their own work. Other Workshop writers who participated with songs throughout the evening included Andrew Abrams, Bill Augustin, Kim Oler, Alison Hubbard, David Arthur, Andy Monroe, Chris Todd, Larry Goldberg, Jack Lechner, Barbara Alsemi, Will Randall, Tom Kitt, Amanda Green, David Turner, Michael Man, Oscar E. Moore and Dana P. Rowe.

Workshop Artistic Coordinator Patrick Cook and Workshop Special Events Coordinator Frank Evans produced the event.

Photos: Gary Gershoff ]]> 2004-11-29T17:00:01+00:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234057 Avant, Beal, Jeff, Cerf, Christopher, Copeland, Stewart, Davis, Don, Davis, Jonathan, Edelman, Randy, Elfman, Danny, Foster, David, Goldsmith, Jerry, Hagen, Earle, Kamen, Michael, Kent, Rolfe, Korn, Kuo, Gary, Matrix, The, Menken, Alan, Mothersbaugh, Mark, Newman, David, Newman, Thomas, Oler, Kim, Post, Mike, Schifrin, Lalo, Shapiro, Theodore, Sherman, Robert, Townshend, Pete, Williams, John, Williams, Lenny, Williams, Patrick, Wilshire, Film-TV, Rock, Important, BMI Film TV Awards Mark Mothersbaugh Honored for Outstanding Career Achievement

BMI honored the composers and songwriters of the music from the past year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and highest-ranking cable television shows at its annual Film & Television Awards dinner on May 12. Held at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, the black-tie gala was hosted by BMI President and CEO Frances W. Preston. Preston and Doreen Ringer Ross, BMI's Vice President of Film/TV Relations, gave out more than 100 awards during the ceremonies.

Click here for the 2004 BMI Film/TV Awards Song List

Click here for Film/TV awards event photos

One of the highlights of the evening was the presentation of the BMI Richard Kirk Award for Outstanding Career Achievement to composer/artist Mark Mothersbaugh. Named after late BMI Vice President Richard Kirk, the prestigious award is given annually to the composer who has made significant contributions to film and TV music. Former recipients of the award include John Barry, Randy Edelman, Danny Elfman, Charlie Fox, Jerry Goldsmith, Earle Hagen, Michael Kamen, Alan Menken, Thomas Newman, Mike Post, Lalo Schifrin, Alan Silvestri, Richard and Robert Sherman, W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, John Williams, Patrick Williams and Hans Zimmer.

Mark Mothersbaugh	Mike Post

One of the most unique and prolific contemporary composers in film, television, interactive media and commercials, Mothersbaugh was a founding member of influential rock group Devo, parlaying his avant-garde musical background into the world of scoring for filmed and animated entertainment. An artist both musically and in the literal definition, Mothersbaugh has created an aural framework with his scores for the forthcoming films Lords of Dogtown and The Life Aquatic, as well as having scored the hugely successful Rugrats television, stage and film franchise. He has also scored a diverse array of films and television shows, including Thirteen, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, 200 Cigarettes, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Happy Gilmore, The Mind of the Married Man, Power Puff Girls, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Beakman's World and more. With over 100 credits in the medium including over 400 commercial credits, Mothersbaugh is also co-owner of Mutato Muzika, an umbrella company that is home to a full-time staff of composers and music editors.

Korn

At the dinner, Mothersbaugh was honored by some of the directors he's worked with, as well as by the characters from Rugrats. Director Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic) called Mothersbaugh a "conceptual artist...his studio is kind of like Andy Warhol's factory. He's very versatile, his mind is constantly spinning and coming up with different things, and he's not locked into any one direction. He's more interested in trying everything."

"What Mark brings to my movies that's the most important to me has to do with the tone to them," said Anderson. "He's drawn to something - his sense of humor and a sort of wistfulness to him - that is the right kind of chemistry for my movies. It fixes the oddness of the movies and mixes into it something that has to be just right, and somehow he knows where that needs to fall."

Director Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Lords of Dogtown) said she was a fan of Motherbaugh's work and wanted him to score her directorial debut Thirteen but was afraid he might not want to do the low-budget film. "I just tried to think of things that would get him excited about doing it," she said. Describing a scene in the movie that she thought would appeal to his creative side, she said she asked him, "Mark would you be interested in creating the sound of brain cells popping?"

Hardwicke went on to describe Mothersbaugh as, "Quirky, crazy, super imaginative, super creative...you don't know what the answer will be and that's the fun of it. He will surprise you with something you didn't plan on, or didn't anticipate. That's what I like, I want to be surprised," she said. "He wants to make it work and delight you too. He gets into a character's head and understands that words can be too heavy handed. I think his music helps carry us places and makes us feel things."

Other top winners at the BMI Film & Television Awards included legendary composer Mike Post, who received the most nods with three for Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Law & Order: CI. Also feted were double winning composers Don Davis for The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, David Newman for Daddy Day Care and The Cat In The Hat, Theodore Shapiro for Along Came Polly and Starsky & Hutch, Rolfe Kent for Freaky Friday and Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, Teddy Castellucci for Anger Management and 50 First Dates, Pete Townshend for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami, and Rob Cairns for The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.

BMI also honored the composers of the highest-ranking cable television shows of the year, including Butch Hartman and Guy Moon for Fairly Oddparents and Danny Phantom, Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh for All Grown Up, Stewart Copeland for The Amanda Show, Douglas Cuomo for Sex and the City, and Brian S. Friedman and Rick A. Friedman II for Punk'd.

The Most Performed Song from a Motion Picture was awarded to the band Korn for their song "Did My Time" from Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. "Did My Time" was written by Jonathan Davis, David Silveria, Munky, Fieldy and Head, and published by Evileria Music, Fieldysnuttz Music, Gintoe Music, Musik Munk Publishing and Stratosphericyoness Music.

BMI's Emmy Award winning composers were also honored, including Jeff Beal for Monk, Christopher Cerf and Glen Daum for Sesame Street, Lenny Williams and Chris Biondo for National Geographic Explorer - "Hornets From Hell," A.J. Gundell, Jerry Pilato, Dominic Messinger, Gary Kuo and Kim Oler for All My Children, John Henry Kreitler for "Forever Near" from Passions, and David Foster and Linda Thompson for "Aren't They All Our Children" from The Concert For World Children's Day.]]> 2004-05-12T18:00:00+00:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/234004 Artists, Cerf, Christopher, Kuo, Gary, Oler, Kim, Pelfrey, Danny, Musical Styles, Dance, Film-TV 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards, announced March 4 by the National Television Academy live on NBC's The Today Show.

The awards recognize outstanding achievement in all fields of daytime television production and are presented to individuals and programs broadcast during the 2003 calendar year. This year's ceremony will be broadcast live on NBC on Friday, May 21, from New York City's Radio City Music Hall from 9:00 - 11:00 p.m. (ET). The Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards, primarily for the creative arts categories, will be presented at ceremonies on Saturday, May 15, in New York at the Marriott Marquis Hotel and in Los Angeles at the Kodak Theatre Ballroom.

BMI's Daytime Emmy Nominees:

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION

BETWEEN THE LIONS
Christopher Cardillo
Christopher Cerf
Sharon Lerner
Thomas Shepard

SESAME STREET
Glen Daum

STUART LITTLE
Kevin Kiner

THE WAYNE BRADY SHOW
Peter Michael Escovedo

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN MUSIC DIRECTION AND COMPOSITION FOR A DRAMA SERIES

ALL MY CHILDREN
A.J. Gundell
Gary Kuo
Kim Oler
Jerry Pilato

GUIDING LIGHT
Billy Barber
Gary Deinstadt
Robert A. Israel
Birch Johnson
Ron Komie
Danny Pelfrey
Brian D. Siewert

ONE LIFE TO LIVE
Paul S. Glass
Brian Lydell
Dominic Messenger
Bette Sussman

PASSIONS
Wesley B. Boatman
John Henry Kreitler
Ed O�Donnell

OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG

ALL MY CHILDREN
�Dance Again With You�
Jorge Casas
Clay Ostwald

ALL MY CHILDREN
�Tad the Cad�
A.J. Gundell

GUIDING LIGHT
�Fasten Your Seatbelts�
Vivian Rhodes

ONE LIFE TO LIVE
�Flash of Light�
Paul S. Glass
Frank Valentini

PASSIONS
�I Ain�t Sorry�
John Henry Kreitler

PASSIONS
�Last Piece of My Heart�
John Henry Kreitler
Michael Sechrest

PASSIONS
�Momma, Gotta Let Her Go�
John Henry Kreitler

PASSIONS
�Something About Him�
John Henry Kreitler]]> 2004-03-16T17:00:00+00:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233804 Artists, Evans, Frank, Hubbard, Alison, Oler, Kim, Musical Styles, Musical Theatre BMI Foundation/Jerry Bock Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre was presented to Alison Hubbard and Kim Oler at a luncheon held recently at the BMI New York office. Hubbard and Oler received cash awards, as well as plaques commemorating the honor for their musical The Enchanted Cottage.

Seen here after the luncheon are 2003 Jerry Bock Award winner Alison Hubbard; Jerry Bock; Pat Cook, Artistic Coordinator of the Workshop; 2003 Jerry Bock Award winner Kim Oler; 2001 Jerry Bock Award winner Frank Evans, who also serves on the Workshop's Steering Committee; and BMI's Jean Banks. photo: Gary Gershoff

This prestigious award was established in 1997 by Jerry Bock, BMI composer of such classic musicals as Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!, She Loves Me, The Apple Tree and The Rothschilds. The winning musical was personally chosen by Bock from the collective output of musicals developed in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Previous winners of the Bock Award include Ben Schaechter, Frank Evans and Julie Gilbert for Dinner At 8, Jay Gaither and Cheryl Hawkins for Hurricane, and David Dreyfus and Jeffrey Hardy for A Trip to the Footbinder.]]> 2003-08-08T18:00:00+00:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233735 Artists, Gaines, Jeffrey, Kuo, Gary, Oler, Kim, Musical Styles, Film-TV The 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards were recently handed out and BMI is proud to congratulate its winners and nominees. BMI composers who won the coveted statuettes included Glen Daum and Chris Cerf for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for "Sesame Street"; A.J. Gundell, Jerry Pilato, Dominic Messinger, Gary Kuo and Kim Oler for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series for "All My Children"; and John Henry Kreitler for Outstanding Song for "Forever Near" from "Passions."

The music awards were handed out as part of the Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards on May 10 in New York at the Marriott Marquis Hotel and in Los Angeles at the Sheraton Universal Hotel. The 30th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards is a presentation of the National Television Academy in cooperation with the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Emmy Awards are presented to daytime television programs that are broadcast between the hours of 2:00am and 6:00pm. The eligibility period for all awards was January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002.

BMI's Daytime Emmy Nominees:

Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition:

"Between the Lions"
Chris Cerf
Thomas Shepard
Chris Cardillo

"Sesame Street"
Glenn Daum
Chris Cerf

"The Zeta Project"
Michael McCuistion
Lolita Ritmanis
Kristopher Carter

Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series:

"All My Children"
Andrew J. Gundell
Jerry Pilato
Dominick Messinger
Gary Kuo
Kim Oler

"As the World Turns"
Gary Kuo
Brian Siewart
Bette Sussman

"Guiding Light"
Gary Deinstadt
Brian Siewart
Robert Sands
Robert Israel

"Passions"
John Henry Kreitler
Wesley B. Boatman, Jr.

Outstanding Song:

"All My Children"
"I Want You To Want Me"
Andrew J. Gundell
Jeffrey Gaines

"All My Children"
"This Deja Vu"
Andrew J. Gundell

"Passions"
"Forever Near"
John Henry Kreitler]]> 2003-06-09T18:00:00+00:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233678 Artists, Blumenkrantz, Jeff, Evans, Frank, Freyer, Rick, Hubbard, Alison, Oler, Kim, Musical Styles, Musical Theatre

Pictured after the performances are BMI's Jean Banks; Michel Ogborn; Pat Cook, co-moderator of the First Year / Artistic Coordinator of the Workshop and co-producer of the evening; Beth Falcone; Jeff Blumenkrantz; Kim Oler; David Arthur; Alison Hubbard; Frank Evans, co-producer of the evening; Andy Monroe; Adam Overett; Rick Freyer, co-moderator of the First Year and co-producer of the evening. Other writers who presented their work at the cabaret included Jason Coll, Martin Fernandi, Kark Kissin and Susan Murray.

photo by Eric Miller
]]> 2003-03-17T17:00:00+00:00 http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/233137 Jackson, Ralph, Engel, Lehman, Evans, Frank, Freyer, Rick, Hubbard, Alison, Monroe, Andy, Oler, Kim, Smulyan, Jane, Spencer, David, Classical, Musical Theatre, Foundation, Jerry Harrington Musical Theater Award The BMI Foundation is proud to announce the winners of the 3rd Annual Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Awards in recognition of Outstanding Creative Achievement in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. Certificates and cash prizes were given out during a reception on June 17 at BMI’s New York office.

Winners of the BMI Foundation/Jerry Harrington Musical Theatre Awards gather after the presentation at the BMI New York office. Seen here showing off their certificates are (l-r): Second Year winner Adam Overett, Advanced winner Kim Oler, Librettists winner Yvonne Adrian, Advanced winner Alison Hubbard, BMI's Jean Banks, First Year winner Andy Monroe, and Workshop Steering Committee Members Pat Cook, David Spencer, Nancy Golladay, Jane Smulyan, Frank Evans and Rick Freyer. Cook and Freyer moderate the First Year. Golladay moderates the Librettists group. photo: Gary Gershoff

This year’s winners, chosen by the Workshop Steering Committee, include First Year Workshop student Andy Monroe, Second Year student Adam Overett, Advanced Workshop students Kim Oler and Alison Hubbard, and Librettists Workshop student Yvonne Adrian.

Established through the BMI Foundation by Harrington’s longtime friend and colleague, BMI Assistant Vice President and Counsel Evelyn Buckstein, the awards are given each year in Harrington’s honor to celebrate the late attorney’s lifelong love of musical theater.

The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop was established in 1961 by the late Lehman Engel, dean of American musical theater, to create a setting where new writers could learn their craft. Consisting of approximately 200 members, most of whom are actively writing for the musical theater, the Workshop is a highly competitive and selective teaching environment designed to provide hands on opportunities for theater composers and lyricists. An innovative program at its inception, the Workshop continues to flourish and is considered to be the foremost training ground for new writing voices.

The BMI Foundation, headed by BMI’s Ralph Jackson, Assistant Vice President of Classical Music Relations and Director of the BMI Student Composer Awards, was founded in 1985 as a non-profit corporation dedicated to encouraging the creation, performance and study of music through awards, scholarships, commissions and grants.