Yearbook of radio and television (1964)

ASCAP By STANLEY ADAMS President THE year 1964 will mark the 50th anniversary of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the performing-right organization which was founded in 1914 by the late Victor Herbert and a group of his colleagues. The Society functions as a clearing house for the performing rights of the creators of music and their publishers. The performing right is granted by the United States Government under the Federal Copyright Law. This right entitles composers, authors and publishers of musical compositions to payment for their works whenever they are performed publicly for profit. Through ASCAP, any user of music may obtain from a single source the right to perform the works of more than 7,000 writers and 2,000 publishers who are members of the Society, at a minimum expense and without the necessity of negotiating for each separate use. ASCAP's extensive repertory covers all phases of the American music lit President . . . Stanley Adams Vice-Presdient . . . Rudolph Tauhert Vice President erature. In addition to the best-loved popular and show music, it includes the finest country and western music, church and sacred selections, and a catalog of much of our contemporary classical music — symphonic, chamber and choral works and recital selections. Radio and television broadcasters have access to this entire repertory when they obtain an ASCAP license. This license guarantees them a clearance on all ASCAP composers' and publishers' music; at the same time it provides for the writers a sustained livelihood from the works of their own creation, and a means of enabling publishers to invest in the exploitation of new works. The Society's Board of Directors consists of 12 writer and 12 publisher members elected biennially by the writer and publisher memberships, respectively. Its officers are elected annually. It maintains 23 branch offices in major cities throughout the country. Headquarters are located at 575 Madison Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10022. O OFFICERS Secretary . . . Paul Creston Treasurer ... J. J. Bregman Jimmy McHugh Asst. Treasurer Asst. Secretary Adolph Vogel Morton Gould Stanley Adams Richard Adier J. J. Bregman Leon J. Brettler Irving Caesar Frank H. Connor Paul Creston Howard Dietz BOARD OF DIRECTORS Max Dreyfus L. Wolfe Gilbert Morton Gould Lou Levy Jimmy McHugh Jack Mills Edwin H. Morris Richard Rodgers 902 Arthur Schwartz Maurice Scopp Herman Starr RudolphTauhert Deems Taylor Adolph Vogel Ned Washington Jack Yellen