Pacific Serenades Honored at NYC Awards Ceremony

Pacific Serenades is proud to announce that it will be receiving a Letter of Distinction from New Music USA, an organization resulting from a recent merger of the American Music Center and Meet the Composer, at an awards ceremony in New York on May 13. This honor, which has been awarded annually since 1964, recognizes those who have made significant contributions to the field of contemporary American music.

Pacific Serenades will join other Letter of Distinction winners Anthony Braxton, John Kander, John Luther Adams, and William Kraft. Previous recipients include George Balanchine, Leonard Bernstein, Joan Tower, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Laurie Anderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Michael Tilson Thomas, Virgil Thomson, Joan La Barbara, Randy Weston, the Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can, Dawn Upshaw, Jack Beeson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Copland House, William Bolcom, and La Monte Young.