40th ANNUAL ASCAP DEEMS TAYLOR AWARDS ANNOUNCED
The American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP) announced the winners of the 40th Annual ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for outstanding print, broadcast and new media coverage of music. The winners were honored at a special reception on Thursday, December 13, 2007 at The Allen Room, Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street, New York City. Over the years, tens of thousands of dollars have been distributed in cash prizes to winning authors, journalists and broadcast producers and personalities.

The Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography in the concert music field honors Claire Fontijn for Desperate Measures: The Life and Music of Antonia Padoani Bembo, published by Oxford University Press. This award was established to honor the memory of Slonimsky (1894 – 1995), the Russian-American composer, conductor, musicologist and critic. Slonimsky was the writer of Baker's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns, The Lexicon of Musical Invective and Perfect Pitch, an autobiography.