41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors
December 2, 2018
Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
8pm, December 26
CBS Broadcast
Cher, Philip Glass, Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter
Hamilton Co-Creators
(Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail,
Andy Blankenbuehler, Alex Lacamoire)
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Philip Glass (b. 1937)
Glassworks (1982)
Opening
Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
Vessels
Mishima (1985)
V. Osamu's Theme: Kyoko's House
Einstein on the Beach (1975)
Act IV - KNEEPLAY 5
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Extraordinary to have Philip Glass so honored, given the Kennedy Center's decidedly mixed track record over the years, re composers...
Still waiting vis a vis Samuel Barber, Alan Hovhaness, Robert Johnson, Jan Koetsier, Nino Rota, Joe Turner, John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Benjamin Britten, Witold Lutoslawski, Marvin Hamlisch, Willie Dixon, Jerry Gray, Vincent Persichetti, Alberto Ginastera, Thelonius Monk, Richard Yardumian, Gottfried von Einem, George Rochberg, Bobby Troup, Nat "King" Cole, Alexander Courage, Erle Hagen, Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Charlie Parker, Malcolm Arnold, Astor Piazzolla, Elmer Bernstein, Hoyt Curtin, Lukas Foss, Neil Hefti, Gyorgy Ligeti, Fred Steiner, Claude Bailif, Paul Desmond, Maurice Jarre, Henry Mancini, Victor Montanez, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Bill Haley, Johnny Mandell, Gunther Schuller, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Gyrogy Kurtag, Lawrence Rosenthal, Jerry Bock, Jean-Michel Damase, Guido Haazen, Gerald Fried, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Charles Strouse, Fats Domino, Jerry Bock, Jerry Goldsmith, George Crumb, Edwin London, Robert Muczynski, Robert Ashley, Ornette Coleman, Lionel Bart, Toru Takemitsu, Luciano Kagel, Alexander Goehr, Little Richard, Krzysztof Penderecki, Henryk Gorecki, Terry Riley, Arvo Part, Jerry Lee Lewis, Peter Schickele, La Monte Young, Richard Berry, Buddy Holly, Steve Reich, Billy Roberts, John Corigliano, Jacques Hetu, Louis Andriessen, John Lennon, Frank Zappa, Paul Kantner, Aretha Franklin, Jerry Garcia, Jimi Hendrix, Daniel Lentz, Andy Summers, Michael Nesmith, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, Krzysztof Meyer, Roger Waters, Jim Morrison, Sima Bina, Michael Nyman, Chip Taylor, Bob Marley, Robert Fripp, Howard Shore, John Adams, Ian Anderson, Bob Berryhill, David Bowie, Steven Schwartz, Tom Scholz, Laurie Anderson, Gregg Allman, Donald Fagen, Ronnie van Zant, Brian Eno, Ian Paice, Ric Ocasek, Kerry Livgren, Peter Gabriel, Peer Frampton, Mark Mothersbaugh, Dewey Bunnel, David Byrne, Oliver Knussen, James Horner, Richard Page, Danny Elfman, Geddy Lee, Chas Smith, Eddie Van Halen, Thomas Newman, Michael Gordon, Johnny Rotten, Mark Alburger, David Lang, Tan Dun, Hans Zimmer, Salvator Brotons, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, Erling Wold, Julia Wolfe, Hal Hartley, Bono, Axl Rose, James Hetfield, Joseph "Run" Simmons, Dr. Dre, Kurt Cobain, James MacMillan, Gert Hoorick, Steven Clark, Michael Romeo, Thom Yorke, Queen Latifah, Michael Cooke, Nathan Morris, Eminem, Thomas Ades, Ben Gibbard, Steven Price, Kanye West, Kat Walsh, Michael Dunsmoor, Lady Gag, Ryan Ross...
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Kennedy Center Honors - Composers / Songwriters
1978 - Richard Rodgers
1979 - Aaron Copland
1980 - Leonard Bernstein
1981 - Count Basie
1982 - Benny Goodman
1983 - Virgil Thomson
1984 - Gian Carlo Menotti
1985 - Frederick Loewe (Merce Cunningham honored, but not John Cage...)
1986 - Ray Charles
1987
1988
1989 - Harry Belafonte, William Schuman
1990 - Dizzy Gillespie
1991
1992 - Lionel Hampton
1993 - Stephen Sondheim
1994 - Morton Gould
1995 - B.B. King
1996 - Johnny Cash
1997 - Bob Dylan
1998 - Willie Nelson, Andre Previn
1999 - Stevie Wonder
2000 - Chuck Berry
2001 - Quincy Jones
2002 - Paul Simon
2003 - James Brown
2004 - Elton John, John Williams
2005 - Tina Turner
2006 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, Dolly Parton, Smokey Robinson
2007 - Brian Wilson
2008 - Barbara Streisand, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltry
2009 - Dave Brubeck, Bruce Springsteen
2010 - Merle Haggard, Jerry Herman, Paul McCartney
2011 - Neil Diamond, Sonny Rollins
2012 - Jimmy Page, Robert Plant
2013 - Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel, Santana
2014 - Al Green, Sting
2015 - Carole King
2016 - Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy Schmit, Joe Walsh, James Taylor
2017 - Gloria Estefan, Lionel Richie
2018 - Philip Glass, Reba McEntire, Wayne Shorter, Lin-Manuel Miranda
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Kennedy Center Honors - Composers
1978 - Richard Rodgers
1979 - Aaron Copland
1980 - Leonard Bernstein
1981 - Count Basie
1982 - Benny Goodman
1983 - Virgil Thomson
1984 - Gian Carlo Menotti
1985 - Frederick Loewe
1986 - Ray Charles
1987
1988
1989 - William Schuman
1990 - Dizzy Gillespie
1991 - Adolph Green
1992 - Lionel Hampton
1993 - Stephen Sondheim
1994 - Morton Gould
1995
1996
1997
1998 - Andre Previn
1999
2000
2001 - Quincy Jones
2002
2003
2004 - Elton John, John Williams
2005
2006 - Andrew Lloyd Webber
2007
2008
2009 - Dave Brubeck
2010 - Jerry Herman, Paul McCartney
2011 - Sonny Rollins
2012
2013 - Herbie Hancock, Billy Joel
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018 - Philip Glass, Wayne Shorter, Lin-Manuel Miranda
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But, overall, an interesting presentation, keeping Harriet et moi at attention...
Previous to this,
head off to
local UPS to print new-edition
The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Op. 72 (1998)
VIII. Then Herod
and
IX. An Angel of the Lord
as double Christmas Cards for this year,
and
eventually
same, on the 46th day of fall, high down 2 to 61, editing page 3 new-edition Mice and Men, Op. 45 (1992): Act IV, composing system 7
The Decameron, Op. 289 (2018)
100 Novels for Voices and Instruments, after the work (1353) of Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Tenth Day - Novel V - Madonna Dianora craves of Messer Ansaldo a garden
beginning
Broke Dance Suite, Op. 290 (2018)
IV. Varese Sarabande (Icy Folia),
orchestrating pages 9 and 5 re
Ravel Orchestrations, Op. 291
I. Berceuse on the Name of Gabriel Faure (after Mother Goose Suite: I-II)]
Satie Orchestrations, Op. 292 (2018)
I. Secular and Instantaneous Hours: I. Obstacles Venieux (after Parade)
and realizing that all these instrumentations amount to a large piece, so far...
Orchestrations, Op. 294 (2018)
Medieval
Renaissance
Beethoven
D'Indy
Debussy
Satie
Ravel
Prokofiev
