Highlighting Hamlisch

Composer Marvin Hamlisch was the recent focus of an ASCAP Kennedy Center series

ASCAP's ongoing series of interviews and concerts led by ASCAP's Michael A. Kerker at the Kennedy Center highlighted composer Marvin Hamlisch on November 16.

In other Hamlisch news, an intimate crowd of friends and colleagues gathered at Catalina Jazz Club on November 18th to honor Hamlisch as he was presented with the prestigious Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Maestro Award. Longtime collaborator and ASCAP Board member Marilyn Bergman presented Hamlisch with the award, after which Hamlisch and Alan Bergman treated the audience to a moving rendition of their Oscar and Grammy-winning classic, "The Way We Were." Hamlisch's Maestro Award honor comes less than a month after he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium. Later on that same evening, ASCAP and the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) hosted a screening of the new Stephen Soderbergh film The Informant! It was followed by a Q&A session with Hamlisch and the Bergmans,