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 Congratulations to Indiana Living
Legend David Baker on winning a
coveted Emmy Award! Distinguished
Professor of Music Baker was
recently presented with the golden
statue announced September 18 during
ceremonies hosted by the Cleveland
chapter of the National Academy of
Television Arts and Sciences.
Entries
represented work done in 2003 from
Cleveland, Akron/Canton, Youngstown,
Lima, Mansfield, and Toledo in Ohio;
Indianapolis, Bloomington, Muncie,
Fort Wayne, and West Lafayette in
Indiana; and Erie, Pennsylvania.
Baker won the award for writing
eight compositions for the PBS film
“For
Gold and Glory” about black
race-car driver Charlie Wiggins in
the 1920s. His retro-jazz score is
complemented by Ossie Davis’
narration and Ruby Dee’s voiceover.
This Pulitzer Prize and
Grammy Award nominee is also the
recipient of the
Down Beat Magazine's
New Star Award, Lifetime Achievement
Award, Jazz Education Hall of Fame
Award, the National Association of
Jazz Educators Hall of Fame Award,
and the National Endowment for the
Arts American Jazz Masters Award.
Baker serves as the conductor and
artistic director of the Smithsonian
Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. He is
president and former vice president
of the International Association of
Jazz Educators, president of the
National Jazz Service Organization,
and senior consultant for music
programs for the Smithsonian
Institution.
To his credit are more than 2,000
compositions, including jazz,
symphonic, and chamber works while
other publications include 65
recordings, 70 books, and 400
articles.
He has served many music
organizations including the National
Council on the Arts, American
Symphony Orchestra League Board of
Directors, the Jazz Advisory Panel
to the Kennedy Center, and the
Jazz/Folk/Ethnic Panel of the
National Endowment for the Arts.
David Baker is chair of IU’s
Department of Jazz Studies! |
