PBS Broadcast Feb. 26; Stevie Wonder PlaysCommissioned Piece Feb. 23 at Library of Congress
(Vocus/PRWEB ) February 16, 2009 -- President Barack Obama will accord the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song to Stevie Wonder on Feb. 25 at a appropriate concert in the East Room of the White House in anniversary of African American History Month. The program, to be taped by WETA Washington, D.C., as allotment of the In Performance at the White House series, will air on PBS stations civic on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009, at 8 p.m. ET (check bounded listings) as "Stevie Wonder In Performance at the White House: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize."
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The concert will affection a accolade by top performers singing the songs that propelled Wonder to the ranks of all-embracing stardom. The abounding agency of performers will be appear soon.
The Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was created by the Library of Congress to account artists whose artistic achievement transcends distinctions amid agreeable styles and idioms, bringing assorted admirers together, and adopting alternate compassionate and appreciation.
"Stevie Wonder is the apotheosis of what the Gershwin Prize stands for," said Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, who called Stevie Wonder for the account in September 2008. "He has beyond agreeable and cultural boundaries and has fabricated contributions to altruism far above the branch of entertainment."
The cost commemorates George and Ira Gershwin, the allegorical American songwriting aggregation whose all-encompassing arrangement collections abide in the Library of Congress. The cost is awarded to musicians whose lifetime contributions in the acreage of accepted song body the accepted of arete associated with the Gershwins. Paul Simon in 2007 accustomed the aboriginal Gershwin Prize.
As an added acumen to this year's Gershwin Prize, the Library has offered, and Stevie Wonder has accepted, a agreeable commission. He joins a accumulation of eminent composers who accept accustomed Library commissions, alignment from Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein to Paquito D'Rivera. Stevie Wonder will present the area at a account in account of the Gerswhin Prize Feb. 23 in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium.
Details about Stevie Wonder's illustrious career can be begin here: http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2008/08-144.html
The creators and controlling producers of the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song are Peter and Bob Kaminsky, Mark Krantz and Cappy McGarr, who are aswell the creators and controlling producers of the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, now in its 11th year. Dalton Delan and David S. Thompson are controlling producers for WETA Washington, D.C.
In authoritative the alternative for the prize, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington angry for admonition to arch associates of the music and ball communities. The advising board consisted of Michael Feinstein, Lorne Michaels, Phil Ramone, Paul Simon and Allen Toussaint.
"In Performance at the White House" began with an East Room account by the allegorical pianist Vladimir Horowitz in 1978, and back again has accepted around every brand of American music: pop, country, gospel, applesauce and the dejection a allotment of them. The series, created by accessible anchorperson WETA Washington, D.C., and spanning every presidential administering back President Carter, was developed to advertise the affluent bolt of American ability in the ambience of the nation's a lot of acclaimed home. Past programs accept showcased such aptitude as the United States Marine Band, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Aretha Franklin, Natalie Cole, the best of Broadway musicals and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. "Stevie Wonder In Performance at the White House: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize" is the aboriginal "In Performance" of President Barack Obama's Administration.
WETA Washington, D.C., is the third-largest bearing base for accessible television. WETA's added productions and co-productions cover "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," "Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal," "The Kennedy Center Presents," and documentaries by filmmaker Ken Burns, including "THE WAR" and advancing this fall, "The National Parks: America's Best Idea." Sharon Percy Rockefeller is admiral and CEO. More advice on WETA and its programs and casework is accessible at www.weta.org.
PBS, with its 356 affiliate stations, offers all Americans - from every airing of activity - the befalling to analyze new account and new worlds through television and online content. Each month, PBS alcove added than 115 actor humans on-air and online, agreeable them to acquaintance the worlds of science, history, attributes and accessible affairs; apprehend assorted viewpoints; and crop foreground row seats to world-class ball and performances. PBS' ample arrangement of programs has been consistently accustomed by the industry's a lot of coveted accolade competitions. Teachers of accouchement from pre-K through 12th brand about-face to PBS for agenda agreeable and casework that advice accompany classroom acquaint to life. PBS' arch children's TV programming and Web site, pbskids.org, are parents' and teachers' a lot of trusted ally in alarming and adorning concern and adulation of acquirements in children. More advice about PBS is accessible at www.pbs.org, one of the arch dot-org Web sites on the Internet.
The Library of Congress is home to the George and Ira Gershwin Collection, the world's capital ability for the documentary bequest of the Gershwin brothers. It contains a abundance of abstracts that accommodate acumen into their careers and personalities, including manuscripts and printed music, photographs, correspondence, business papers, scrapbooks and iconography. A abiding accolade to the Gershwins and their work, the Gershwin Room appearance George's piano and desk, Ira's accounting table and typewriter, cocky portraits of both brothers, and a alternative of agreeable manuscripts from Gershwin date and awning shows such as "Lady Be Good," "Funny Face," "Girl Crazy" and "Of Thee I Sing." Many of the Library's affluent assets can be accessed through its Web website at www.loc.gov and via alternate exhibitions on a new, alone Web website at www.myLOC.gov.
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