Burt Bacharach, Gershwin Prize Winner: A Fond Farewell
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library’s Mark Hartsell, in the Communications Office, and Mark Horowitz, in the Music Division, contributed to this post. Burt Bacharach, the elegant songwriter and composer whose lifetime of work the Library honored with the 2012 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 94. Bacharach’s iconic career stretched for more than …
Posted in: Concerts, Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, Music, Performing Arts