The League of American Orchestras will honor 27 orchestras with 2013-14 ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming at the League’s 69th National Conference taking place in Seattle from June 4 to 6. For the second year in a row, New York’s Albany Symphony and Music Director David Alan Miller have won the John S. Edwards Award for Strongest Commitment to New American Music. The Los Angeles Philharmonic and Music Director Gustavo Dudamel are recipients of the Morton Gould Award for Innovative Programming, and the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas have won the Award for American Programming on Foreign Tours. Also receiving awards are the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Spokane Symphony, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Berkeley Symphony, San José Chamber Orchestra, Laredo Phil, Michigan Philharmonic, and Pioneer Valley Symphony. In the collegiate, youth orchestra, and festival categories, recipients are Lamont Symphony Orchestra, Cornell Orchestras, Peabody Symphony, Concert, and Modern Orchestras, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, New York Youth Symphony, Orange County School of the Arts Symphony Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival and School. ASCAP and the League present the awards annually to orchestras of all sizes for programs that challenge the audience, build the repertoire, and increase interest in music of our time. For a complete list of 2013-14 award winners and repertoire, click here.
June 4, 2014
