2024 ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards Announced: Full List
The winners of the fifty fifth annual ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards for exceptional books, articles, liner notes and broadcast techniques have been introduced on Friday (Oct. 31). They incorporated works that explored such song greats as Donna Summer, Sinéad O’Connor, John Williams and Miles Davis.
The 2024 award recipients are as follows:
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award in pop song: Administrators Roger Ross Williams and Brooklyn Sudano, for his or her HBO documentary, Like to Love You, Donna Summer time.
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Broadcast/Media Award in live performance song: Journalist and creator Jon Burlingame for his interview with John Williams at the Disney Tune Staff podcast, Disney for Rankings.
Moreover, a Particular Reputation Award within the above section is given in reminiscence of “the alt-country impresario” Jeremy Tepper, musician, manufacturer, programmer and government director of SiriusXM’s “Outlaw Country” and Willie’s Roadhouse” channels.
The ASCAP Foot Paul Williams “Loved the Liner Notes” Award for pop song: Deanie Parker and Robert Gordon for “Scribble and Hum” from Written in Their Soul: The Stax Songwriter Demos on Craft Recordings.
Particular Reputation Awards within the above section also are given to Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt for Matmos: Go back to Archive on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and likewise Jeff Playground and John W. Troutman for Enjoying for the Guy on the Door: Garden Recordings from the Choice of Mack McCormick, 1958-1971, on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
The “Loved the Liner Notes” Award used to be established in 2016 and is funded via ASCAP Foot president Paul Williams.
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Secure Awards in pop song: John Szwed for Cosmic Pupil: The Future and Occasions of Harry Smith, printed via Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and likewise Allyson McCabe for Why Sinéad O’Connor Issues, printed via College of Texas Press.
A Particular Reputation Award within the above section is going to Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards for Threadgill’s memoir Simply Slip Into Any other International: A Future in Tune, printed via Alfred A. Knopf.
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Secure Awards in live performance song: Denise Von Glahn for Circle of Winners: How the Guggenheim Foot Composition Awards Formed American Musical Tradition, printed via College of Illinois Press, and likewise Lois Svard for The Musical Mind: What Scholars, Lecturers and Performers Want to Know, printed via Oxford College Press.
Particular Reputation Awards within the above section are given to Dan Gutstein for Destitute Gal: The Cultural Historical past of Modest Liza Jane, printed via College Press of Mississippi, and likewise Howard Pollack for Samuel Barber: His Future and Legacy, printed via College of Illinois Press.
The award recipients for articles printed in 2023 are as follows:
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an editorial within the pop song garden: Jeffrey Magee for his article “’Honor the Source’: Race, Representation and Intellectual Property in Jelly’s Last Jam,” printed within the magazine Research in Musical Theatre.
The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award for an editorial within the live performance song garden: Tina Frühauf for her article “The Dialectics of Nationalism: Jaromír Weinberger’s Schwanda the Bagpiper and Anti-Semitism in Interwar Europe,” printed in Cambridge Opera Magazine.
The Virgil Thomson Award for exceptional song grievance within the pop song garden: Lewis Porter for his article, “Miles Davis Did Not Exactly Steal Tunes,” printed via Playback with Lewis Porter! on Substack.
The Virgil Thomson Award for exceptional song grievance within the live performance song garden: Kerry O’Brien and William Robin for his or her paintings, “On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement,” printed via College of California Press.
Established in 1967 to honor the reminiscence of composer, critic, commentator and previous ASCAP president Deems Taylor, The ASCAP Foundation Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards are made imaginable via the beneficiant backup of the Virgil Thomson Foot. Thomson used to be a famous American composer and critic and a former member of the ASCAP board of administrators.