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Apr 21, 2010 BMI presented its 13th Annual Unsigned Urban Showcase April 20, at the Havana Club in Atlanta. Hosted by R&B crooner Lloyd and DJ Drama, the showcase featured performances by hip-hop heir apparent Drake (pictured) and Atlanta-bred Travis Porter, who each brought their respective high-energy sounds. The evening began with performances from showcase finalists Nicoya, Tra Squad, Miss Mykie and Terrell… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 YMF Composer-in-Residence Charles Fox and the YMF Debut Orchestra perform Fox’s newest gem, “Arabesque for Orchestra (2010).” View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI composer Charles Fox conducts the YMF Debut Orchestra in a performance of his new piece, “Arabesque for Orchestra (2010).” View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI joined the Young Musicians Foundation (YMF) to celebrate the latter’s Composer-in-Residence Charles Fox at a recent spring concert at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA. The concert featured Fox performing and conducting his original work “Arabesque for Orchestra (2010)” with the YMF Debut Orchestra. Fox is the composer behind such TV themes as Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley,… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 Emmy-winning composer Bruce Babcock recently debuted his new musical work, “This Is What I Know,” at UCLA. The musical performance piece featured four poems by Dorothy Parker and the soprano voice of Juliana Gondek, a UCLA Professor of Distinguished Voice. Babcock has scored such TV shows as Matlock and Murder She Wrote and has also created original music for films… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI composer Christopher Lennertz recently finished his score for the summer comedy Marmaduke. Based on the canine comic strip star, the family-friendly comedy stars Owen Wilson as the voice of Marmaduke the Great Dane. Also lending their voices to the 20th Century Fox production are Steve Coogan, pop star Fergie, George Lopez, and the brotherly duo of Damon and Marlon… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 Shown enjoying the NAB convention in Las Vegas are BMI Board Chairman Jack Sander, Graham Nash, Colbie Caillat, Willie Nelson, Toby Keith, and BMI President & CEO Del Bryant. View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 Pictured at the NAB convention in Las Vegas are (back row) BMI Board members Mark Pedowitz, Amador Bustos and G. Neil Smith; Colbie Caillat; Willie Nelson; BMI Board member Susan Davenport Austin; Toby Keith; and BMI Board members Philip A. Jones, Ken Elkins, and N. John Douglas; (front row) BMI Board member K. James Yager; Graham Nash; BMI President &… View Photo

Apr 20, 2010 BMI celebrated the achievements of its songwriters at the National Associations of Broadcasters convention held in Las Vegas April 12-14. BMI’s Board of Directors hosted a broadcast industry dinner at the Wynn Encore resort, where Willie Nelson was presented with a special citation from the BMI Board. BMI songwriters Colbie Caillat, Toby Keith and Graham Nash also were honored for… View Photo

Apr 15, 2010 Andy Roninson was recently named the recipient of the Robert Sherman Scholarship, funded by Sherman, the co-writer of classics including Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Pictured celebrating with Roninson are Pat Cook, Artistic Administrator of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop and Co-moderator; Roninson; Rick Freyer, Co-moderator of Workshop; and BMI’s Jean Banks. View Photo