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2009 Emmy Nominees Include Leading BMI Composers
As the nominees for the 61st Emmy Awards were announced on July 16, a slew of BMI composers came to fully understand a ubiquitous adage: It truly is an honor just to be nominated. Premier British composer Rachel Portman (PRS) garnered a nod in the Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score) field. A true groundbreaker, Portman was the first woman to ever win…
From News, posted 7.22.09
Joe Pagetta
Nashville's Joe Pagetta exposes a severe case of sincerity on his new EP OTHER PEOPLE'S NEWS. While the pop-and-roots singer-songwriter has always been earnest, he digs to new depths of feeling on these five new songs. When he compares historic meetings between Les Paul and Bing Crosby to Elvis Presley and Colonel Parker, then takes it a step further to include Jesus and his…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.04.08
BMI Mourns Loss of Pat Baird
Patricia J. Baird, BMI Assistant Vice President of Corporate Relations, died Aug. 21 in New York after a long fight with cancer. She was 59. During a career that spanned more than 35 years, Ms. Baird had become a well-known music business executive, media relations professional and journalist in the music industry, befriended by dozens of noted authors, artists, music producers and executives. She…
From News, posted 8.22.06
Ivor Novello Awards Honor BMI Songwriters
Some of BMI's biggest British songwriters and composers were among the winners at the 50th annual Ivor Novello Awards presented on May 26 by the British Academy of Composers & Songwriters in Association with the Performing Right Society at the Grosvenor House in London. The Ivor Novello Awards honor British songwriters and composers and their contributions to the music industry.
From News, posted 6.07.05
David Bowie Continues Pushing the Envelope
There’s a delightful irony in the fact that David Bowie’s most recent album is called Reality . After all, he’s the artist who came to fame in the early 1970s as the master of many musical guises such as Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane and The Thin White Duke. Of course, from the hindsight of a quarter-century later, we all know that whatever form the artist or…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.11.04
Lou Reed Puts ‘Poetry’ in Motion
Lou Reed has never been one to do the obvious, so the ambitious nature of this cutting-edge rock icon's latest endeavor shouldn't be surprising. The project in question is POEtry, a thematically and compositionally ambitious stage production that Reed wrote with revered avant-garde theater veteran Robert Wilson. The duo previously collaborated on the 1996 production Timerocker. POEtry, which made its U.S. debut in…
From MusicWorld, posted 2.24.02
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