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Michele Rosewoman Receives 2008 Chamber Music America New Works: Creation and Presentation Commission

June 22, 2008

Michele Rosewoman and Quintessence are again recipients of a CMA 2008 New Works: Creaton Presentation Grant. Ms. Rosewoman is being funded to write and present new music for an expanded version of the ensemble encouraging their current evolution as represented on their latest release, “The In Side Out" (Advance Dance Disques AD0353) Besides the core instrumentation ...

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Jazzmobile Vocal Competition 2008; Queen Esther Takes the Night!

June 22, 2008

2008 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition Harlem's River Room was packed with onlookers, excited to see the results of the final round of the 2008 Jazzmobile Vocal Competition. Every seat was reserved, the bar was full and even outside, many fans had taken a drink and accented to watching the performances through the large open windows. The prestigious ...

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Oscar's Change Original Song Rules

June 21, 2008

The Academy Awards Alters Requirements for the Original Song Category. In an effort to prevent a single musical from monopolizing the Original Song field at the Oscars, the Academy has changed the rules of the category. While movies can submit any number of songs they want, starting with the 2009 Oscars, only two songs can be ...

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The Jazz Journalists Association Announces 2008 Jazz Award Winners

June 18, 2008

The Jazz Journalists Association announces winners of the 2008 Jazz Awards, the non-profit professional organization's 12th annual celebration of excellence in jazz and jazz journalism, and induction of an “A Team" of activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz, The Jazz Awards are engraved statuettes, handed to attending recipients by jazz journalists and their supporters ...

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Venissa Santi: UArts Music Alumna Awarded Pew Fellowships in the Arts

June 18, 2008

PHILADELPHIA - Venissa Santi, a 2001 UArts vocal studies graduate of The University of the Arts, has been selected to receive a prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts and its $60,000 prize, according to Pew officials. “It is a highly competitive process and each year I am awed by the dedication and commitment demonstrated by Philadelphia-area ...

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Inside the Mind of a Tony Voter

June 16, 2008

The dirty little secret is that voting for the Tonys is a dangerously haphazard affair Each year the Tony awards, in an effort to reverse a seemingly inexorable ratings decline, drop a few more of the actual awards from the live telecast. The goal, of course, is to make room for the program's real raison d'etre: ...

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Tony Award's the List

June 16, 2008

The complete list of Tony Award winners In the tossup of this year's Tony Awards Sunday night, a Latino story trumped an unusual African American coming-of-age tale Sunday as Tony voters gave their best new musical prize and three others to “In the Heights," about Caribbean immigrant families struggling to reach for the American dream in ...

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James McMurtry Sweeps Nominations

June 12, 2008

McMurtry's breakthrough album, Just Us Kids, spent six weeks at #1 in Radio & Records and appeared on four charts in Billboard. In tonight's announcement of nominees for the 2008 Americana Honors & Awards, James McMurtry was nominated in three categories: “Best Artist," “Best Album" and “Best Song." The album is his current CD, Just Us ...

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Drummer Awarded Ambassador-Title

June 12, 2008

Drummer Hakon Mjaset Johansen is the first musician that can officially call himself NTNU-Ambassador. In addition to the title he gets 50 000,- NOK (about $10 000,-) The award and title is bestowed upon outstanding musicians that have a strong connection to the Jazz-arena of Trondheim and NTNU (The Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and ...

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ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame

June 11, 2008

ASCAP President and Chairman Marilyn Bergman announced that ASCAP will add six music greats to the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame The invitation-only event will be hosted by Ms. Bergman in The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan Tuesday June 17th beginning at 6:30 PM. The event will ...