ADVISORY/ASCAP Brings Great Songwriters and Hit Recording Stars to Capitol Hill in September 30 Show and Dinner.Entertainment Editors/Business Editors ADVISORY...for Tuesday Tuesday: see week. (Sept. 30) WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 2003 ASCAP ASCAP abbr. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
WHAT: ASCAP presents "The Stories Behind the Songs": a unique live
musical evening of legendary songwriters and hitmaking
recording artists performing together.
They will also provide insights into the struggle and the
process of making a song a standard, from inspired creation of
words and music to recording to a hit record.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 30, 2003
6:30 PM: Cocktails / 7:30 PM: Dinner / 8:15 PM: Entertainment
WHERE: Ways & Means Committee Hearing Room,
United States House of Representatives
1100 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C.
WHO: Songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (The Windmills of Your
Mind, The Way We Were, You Don't Bring Me Flowers); performing
with recording, touring and Broadway star Maureen McGovern.
Songwriter Cy Coleman (Big Spender, If My Friends Could See Me
Now, Hey Look Me Over) with Broadway vocalists Lillias White
and Nicki Richardson.
Songwriter Hal David (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, What
the World Needs Now, Walk on By) with five-time Grammy winner
(and leading interpreter of David/Bacharach songs), Dionne
Warwick.
Songwriter Ralph MacDonald (Just the Two of Us, Where Is the
Love?, Mister Magic) with Grammy winning vocalist Roberta
Flack.
Songwriter Jimmy Webb (By the Time I Get To Phoenix, Wichita
Lineman, MacArthur Park) with acclaimed recording star Kenny
Rankin.
Songwriter Paul Williams (We've Only Just Begun, Evergreen,
Old Fashioned Love Song) with multi-platinum recording artist
Chuck Negron (formerly of Three Dog Night).
DETAILS:Marilyn Bergman, Academy Award-winning songwriter and ASCAP
President & Chairman, will host an all-star lineup of some of
America's greatest songwriters performing their biggest hit
songs, along with the great performers who helped make them
hits, before an invited audience of Members of Congress.
ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a non-profit performance rights organisation that protects its members' musical copyrights by monitoring public performances of their music, whether via a broadcast or live performance, and compensating is the world's largest performing rights Performing rights are the right to perform music in public. It is part of copyright law and demands payment to the music’s composer/lyricist and publisher (with the royalties generally split 50/50 between the two) when a business uses music in a public performance. organization, with over 160,000 composer This article is about composers of music. For the HTML editor, see Mozilla Composer. A composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation, thus allowing others to perform the music. , lyricist lyr·i·cist n. A writer of song lyrics. Also called lyrist. Noun 1. lyricist - a person who writes the words for songs lyrist and music publisher members in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , representing music of every variety and style. ASCAP is the only U.S. performing rights organization governed gov·ern v. gov·erned, gov·ern·ing, gov·erns v.tr. 1. To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; exercise sovereign authority in. 2. by and for its members. |
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