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Jeffrey Simno Wins Robert Sherman Scholarship
The BMI Foundation, Inc. has announced that Columbia University graduate student Jeffrey Simno has won the 2008 Robert Sherman Scholarship. The $1,000 award is made possible through the generosity of Mary Poppins composer Robert Sherman and is given each year to a talented student composer studying musical theatre. Pictured (l-r): BMI Senior Director Musical Theatre and Jazz, Jean Banks; librettist Jeffrey Simno, and…
From News, posted 2.05.09
Yale School Of Drama Student Wins BMI Foundation’s Robert Sherman Scholarship
The BMI Foundation, Inc. has announced that Yale School of Drama student Michael Mitnick has won the 2007 Robert Sherman Scholarship. The $1,000 award is made possible through the generosity of Mary Poppins composer Robert Sherman and is given each year to a talented student composer studying musical theatre. Mitnick, a 2006 Harvard University graduate, is an accomplished composer/lyricist who recently completed his first…
From News, posted 12.14.07
‘Spring Awakening’ Is Top Tony Nominee
The 2007 Tony Awards nominations again illustrate the strength of BMI's presence in the musical theatre, past and present, as both veterans of and newcomers to the stage are among the individuals singled out for notable achievements on Broadway. Leading the nominations are Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, co-creators of Spring Awakening . An off-Broadway hit, it transferred to the Great White Way and swept up audiences with its strong…
From News, posted 5.17.07
Broadway Dazzled by BMI Writers
by Frank Evans The current Broadway season has theatre-goers scrambling for seats to shows from BMI’s ever-growing list of writers from the Tony-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. A CHORUS LINE A revival of A Chorus Line opened Oct. 5, 2006, at the Schoenfeld Theatre in New York. The ground-breaking and record-breaking musical features lyrics by…
From News, posted 1.17.07
BMI Workshop Offers Students Crash Course in Musical Theatre
The Tony-honored BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop hosted a group of 20 students from Valparaiso (Indiana) High School for a one-day "mini-workshop" session. The teens, who actively write musical theatre pieces during the school year under the direction of Alice Gambel using the teachings of Workshop founder Lehman Engel, come to New York every other year to present their works to the Workshop's esteemed faculty. …
From News, posted 11.09.06
Millikin University Student Receives Foundation’s First Robert Sherman Scholarship
The BMI Foundation has announced the winner of its inaugural Robert Sherman Scholarship, awarded to Millikin University student Andrew James (Drew) Nellessen. The new $1,000 scholarship, endowed by Mary Poppins composer Robert Sherman and administered through the BMI Foundation, will be given each year to a talented student composer studying musical theatre.
From News, posted 11.07.06
What a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Career: Richard and Robert Sherman
What a Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Career: Richard and Robert Sherman How many songwriters can claim a career that has lasted more than 50 years? Who has successfully written hit singles, movie soundtracks, television themes and Broadway scores? Even added indelible expressions to the English language? Richard and Robert Sherman, that’s who. Their first hit, “Things I Might Have Been,” struck gold in 1952, and…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.05
BMI: About Music & Writers, October 1964 Cover Story
BMI: About Music & Writers, October 1964 Cover Story MARY POPPINS This autumn Americans are renewing acquaintance with, or meeting for the first time, one of the most delightful literary creations of all time, as that English nanny, Mary Poppins, brightens the motion picture screen. The Walt Disney production, with Julie Andrews, as Mary, in such illustrious acting company as Dick Van Dyke, Ed Wynn, Glynis Johns…
From MusicWorld, posted 10.05.05
Song Hall Inducts Class of 2005
BMI songwriters Steve Cropper, Isaac Hayes, David Porter, and Richard and Robert Sherman were among those inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at the organization's 36th annual induction and awards dinner held June 9 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City.
From News, posted 6.09.05
BMI Honors Composers of Top Movies, TV Shows and Cable Programs at 2005 Film/TV Awards
Composer Graeme Revell Receives Richard Kirk Award For Outstanding Career Achievement BMI honored the composers and songwriters of the music from this year's top-grossing films, top-rated prime-time network television series and highest-ranking cable network television series at its annual Film & Television Awards dinner. Held May 18 at the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, the black-tie gala was hosted by BMI President and CEO Del R.…
From News, posted 5.18.05
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