30th annual Kennedy Center Honors lineup announced

Gentle Giant · September-12th-2007, 11:46 AM

My man BW gets a nod!

LEON FLEISHER, STEVE MARTIN, DIANA ROSS MARTIN SCORSESE AND BRIAN WILSON TO RECEIVE 30TH ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS

America to Celebrate the Careers of Five Extraordinary Artists, Sunday, December 2, 2007

Gala will be broadcast on CBS on Wed., Dec. 26 at 9pm (EST)

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced the selection of the individuals who will receive the Kennedy Center Honors of 2007. Recipients to be honored at the 30th annual national celebration of the arts are: pianist Leon Fleisher, actor and writer Steve Martin, singer Diana Ross, film director Martin Scorsese, and songwriter Brian Wilson.

"... Brian Wilson led not only a spectacularly popular rock group but also an era-defining transformation of the sound of music.”

Two new BW songs streaming at http://www.brianwilson.com. They're part of a new suite he's currently performing in the UK built around the classic tune, That Lucky Old Sun, with Van Dyke Parks providing narrative material.

hornplayer · September-12th-2007, 02:41 PM

That would be an amazing lineup if Sonny Rollins were being honored in place of you-know-who.......

-- suppose that woulda been too much to hope for.

Valerie · September-12th-2007, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by hornplayer

That would be an amazing lineup if Sonny Rollins were being honored in place of you-know-who.......

-- suppose that woulda been too much to hope for.

sonny rollins instead of brian wilson?!? are you mad, woman?!? guess about as mad as i am!!!

clinthopson · September-12th-2007, 06:01 PM

They'll never get around to Sonny, Gerald Wilson, Terry Gibbs or Clark Terry before it's too late. Let Along McCoy Tyner, Horace Silver or. . .

hornplayer · September-12th-2007, 11:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Valerie

sonny rollins instead of brian wilson?!? are you mad, woman?!? guess about as mad as i am!!!

actually, I was thinking of that fraud, Diana Ross.

Valerie · September-13th-2007, 12:35 AM

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actually, I was thinking of that fraud, Diana Ross.

hope she gets her teeth fixed for the big event! MEOW!!

Lenny D.Guitarist · September-13th-2007, 07:30 AM

This is an outrage!!

Lifetime achievement??? If that's the standard of judgment, then where is Florence Henderson?

clinthopson · September-13th-2007, 12:45 PM

How can they honor Scorsese when they've never recognized the enourmous contributions to world culture of Chuck Jones and Fritz Freeling.

jazzgirl · September-13th-2007, 12:56 PM

Diana Ross? Lifetime achievement?

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Originally Posted by Lenny D.Guitarist

This is an outrage!!

Lifetime achievement??? If that's the standard of judgment, then where is Florence Henderson?

hornplayer · September-13th-2007, 01:51 PM

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Diana Ross? Lifetime achievement?

Well, you know, they HAVE to have an African American person in the group, and she was probably the only one they could think of!

Sort of off-topic story.... Joe Williams was on the selection committee until his death. When he was about 65, one of the other committee members said "How about you, Joe?" he countered that he was "way too young, there are elders who need to be honored while they're here..."

The subject was never brought up again, even though friends (including me) wrote letters to the Chairman.