“The Association of Performing Arts Professionals (APAP) yesterday honored a number of its members during a special awards ceremony” in Manhattan, writes Susan Elliott in Tuesday’s (1/14) Musical America (subscription required). “There were many accolades for Mario Garcia Durham, who exits as APAP’s president and CEO in April…. National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Mary Anne Carter … presented him with a plaque commemorating his 20-year ‘legacy of leadership in the arts.’ … The Sidney R. Yates Award for Outstanding Advocacy on Behalf of the Performing Arts went to the League of American Orchestras and specifically its President and CEO Jesse Rosen, and its VP for Advocacy Heather Noonan. Rosen, in his final year in at the League, was quick to point out that Noonan had done a brilliant job of lobbying in Washington, D.C., and of building partnerships with other arts-service organizations to strengthen the cause…. Emil Kang, now program director for arts and cultural heritage at the Mellon Foundation, received the William Dawson Award for his previous work as executive and artistic director of Carolina Performing Arts, a multi-discipline presenting organization he founded in 2005 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC.”
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