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Article: SINGER/SONGWRITER WONDER NAMED RECIPIENT OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 2, 2008
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The Library of Congress issued the following news release:
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today named singer/songwriter Stevie Wonder-who burst on the scene in the early 1960s as a musical prodigy, and whose dance hits and love songs segued over the years into thoughtful commentaries on the joy and injustice in our world-as the recipient of the Second Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The award presentation will take place in the Great Hall of the Library on Feb. 23, 2009.
As an added distinction to this year's Gershwin Prize, the Library has offered, and Wonder has accepted, a musical commission. He joins a group of eminent composers who have received Library ...