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BMI Songwriter/Artists Win 68% of Grammys; Adele Takes Home Six

The 54th annual Grammy Awards belonged to BMI songwriters, who earned almost 70% of the year's 78 trophies – resounding proof of the strength of the BMI repertoire. Adele took home Grammy gold in every category in which she was nominated. She won six trophies in all, including Album, Record and Song of the Year. Adele is a member of British performing right society PRS for…
Remembering Jean Banks: 1934-2012

Jean Banks, Senior Director of Jazz and Musical Theatre at BMI, passed away on February 1 in her Lower East Side home after a long battle with lung cancer. She was 77 years old. Jean got her first taste of show business when she worked as an executive secretary for the New York office of Seven-Arts Productions. After her stint at Seven Arts, she also worked for a time at…
The Conversion of Robert Lopez

Robert Lopez knows theater audiences. On the one hand, such a statement may sound absurdly obvious. To date, Lopez has been a principal co-writer for exactly two Broadway musicals, Avenue Q and The Book of Mormon, that have won exactly two Tony awards each for Best Musical and Best Original Score. The latter of these adds the Tony for Best Book, and that’s not even…
BMI Songwriters Dominate First Six Months of 2011 Awards Season
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Half of 2011 is already history, complete with a suite of awards ceremonies celebrating music’s best. From the Grammys to the Tonys, the cultural supremacy of BMI’s deep repertoire has been on full display. January The year launched with a high bar, as Atticus Ross’s music for The Social Network earned Best Original Score at the 68th Annual Golden Globes and 83rd
BMI ‘Book of Mormon’ Composers Triumph at 2011 Tony Awards

BMI’s tight-knit musical theatre family had plenty to celebrate Sunday night as BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop alumnus Robert Lopez and veteran BMI composer Larry Hochman took home statuettes in every music category at the 65th Annual Tony Awards. Lopez earned Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical honors for his work on The Book of Mormon, while Hochman won Best…
Outer Critics Circle Awards Tap BMI Musicals ‘The Book of Mormon,’ ‘The Kid’

The Outer Critics Circle recently announced recipients of its 61st Annual Awards, and BMI’s musical theatre vanguard earned three of the organization’s prestigious honors. Robert Lopez garnered two trophies: Outstanding New Broadway Musical and Outstanding New Score, both for runaway hit The Book of Mormon. Lyricist Jack Lechner and composer Andy Monroe earned Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical honors for The Kid.…
BMI Musical Theatre Family Dominates 2011 Drama Desk Nominations

The musical theatre award season is in full swing, and BMI’s family of composers and lyricists, from young torchbearers to veteran game-changers, are earning recognition of jobs very well done. The recently announced list of 2011 Drama Desk nominees underlines BMI’s longtime tradition of cultivating and celebrating musical theatre creators: Nominees See Rock City and other Destinations, The Kid and In Transit were all born in the prestigious BMI
BMI Broadway Composers Sweep Tony Score Nominations

BMI’s deep-rooted tradition of acclaimed musical theatre grew even deeper as the nominees were announced for the 2011 Tony Awards. Every nominee in the Tony's prestigious Best Original Score category was penned by a BMI composer, and from breakout hit The Book of Mormon, which with 14 nods leads the overall list of nominees, to beloved musical The Scottsboro Boys, which earned a resounding 12 nominations, BMI’s musical theatre family…
BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop Accepting Applications
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop is now accepting applications for its first year composer/lyricist class. The August 1, 2009 deadline is quickly approaching and applicants are asked to send in the requested materials as soon as possible. The Workshop begins September 21, 2009 and runs through June 2010. A recipient of the Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre Award, the Lehman Engel Musical Workshop consists…
‘Broadway on Broadway’ Highlights BMI Musical Theatre Workshop Scribes

The Tony®-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop participated in Symphony Space’s Broadway on Broadway, a 13-hour tribute to musical theatre, on Sunday, May 16. Three writers from the Workshop, Andy Monroe, Jack Letchner and Michael Zam, were interviewed by Workshop artistic coordinator Patrick Cook about their upcoming production of The Kid, based on the memoir by Village…
