We just have to crow about this for a moment: this is a huge honor. It’s one of those awards for which you cannot apply; you simply receive a mysterious phone call out of the blue from Michael Kerker at ASCAP, saying “please post 6 of your songs online, a variety of work from different projects, and I can’t tell you anything else!” in a conspiratorial tone.
Then, a few days later, he calls back sounding much more jovial, and says we’ve been selected to receive the ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers New Horizons Award. We go online to find out more, and see that the list of past recipients reads like a Who’s Who of young writers working on Broadway: Adam Guettel, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeanine Tesori, Larry O’Keefe, Andrew Lippa, John Bucchino, Michael Korie…we are unbelievably honored to be in this select company. The award was conceived of by Richard Rodgers’s daughter Mary Rodgers, whom we’ll get to meet at the awards ceremony December 9. Woohoo!!
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Congrats Val and Brendan. Quite an honor and very well deserved. Enjoy!
I’m sitting here listening to Sleeping Beauty Wakes (in anticipation of your upcoming TheaterWorks performance), and am again struck by the fact that you have created some of the most painfully moving songs in my collection. I can’t even bring myself to listen to Long Story Short lately. I’m pleased to see you receiving this award, and were it in my power you would get all glory, laud and honor for your oeuvre. Keep it up. Looking forward to seeing you in January.