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Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 19:52:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Patricia L. Price <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of NFBnet Blind-Talk Mailing List
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Subject: Talking Book Narrator Awards Ceremony Live On Internet
Just thought this might of interest to some listers.
Narrator AwardsCeremony Live On Internet
(From "Vision Enhancement" Spring 1998)
For the first time, fans of Talking Books from around the country will be
able to listen to the Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Awards
ceremony live as it is broadcast over the Internet via RealAudio. The
ceremony will be held June 8, 1998 at 5:30 p.m. at The Theater at Madison
Square Garden, Seventh Avenue at 32nd Street, in Manhattan, New York. Hall
of Fame sportscaster Bob Wolff will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
Talking Books -- celebrating its 65th anniversary this year -- provides
recorded literature to 750,000 blind, visually impaired, and physically
disabled Americans. The program, which originated in 1933 with the
American Foundation for the Blind's invention of the long-playing
phonograph record, is administered by the National Library Service for the
Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) of the Library of Congress.
The Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Awards were established by AFB
in 1986 in memory of its most popular Talking Book narrator. The event
also celebrates the contribution of Talking Books to the cause of literacy
for blind people, and award presenters (who are visually impaired) will
speak about the importance of reading in their lives. The highlight of the
evening features award recipients giving readings from favorite works they
have recorded.
Three awards will be presented -- in the categories of fiction,
non-fiction, and a special award this year, periodicals.
Graeme Malcolm
This year's fiction award recipient is Graeme Malcolm, a narrator at AFB's
New York City studios since 1984. He has recorded over 200 books,
including such favorites as Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book," Robert
Louis Stevenson's "The Body Snatcher," Joseph Conrad's "Great Short Works,"
and several works by Shakespeare.
An accomplished actor, Malcolm has appeared in such Broadway hits as "The
King and I" and "M. Butterfly," television shows such as "Law and Order"
and "Guiding Light," and in numerous regional theater and British theater
productions. He has also been a voice and speech teacher at Vassar and
Rutgers Universities, and at the American Music and Drama Academy.
Mimi Bederman
In the non-fiction category, the winner is Mimi Bederman, who has served as
a volunteer narrator for Insight for the Blind in Ft. Lauderdale, FL for 20
years. She has narrated over 300 books, including such notable titles as
"The History of the U.S. Postal Service," by N. O. Bolick, the biography
"Amy Tan," by Barbara Kramer, "Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses? and Other
Imponderables of Everyday Life," by David Feldman, and "Stay Me, Oh Comfort
Me," by M. F. K. Fisher.
Bederman attended Carlton College in Northfield, MN and Northwestern
University in Evanston, IL where she studied liberal arts. She and her
husband are the founders for The Foundation for Independent Living in Ft.
Lauderdale, a residential facility for learning-disabled young adults.
Jake Williams
The recipient in periodicals is Jake Williams, a narrator at Talking Book
Publishers, Inc. in Denver, CO, since 1985. He narrates such popular
magazines as "American Heritage," "Sports Illustrated," "The Atlantic
Monthly," "Civilization," and "U.S. News & World Report." He has also
recorded over 100 books, including Karl Marx's "Capital" in its entirety,
"My American Journey," by Colin Powell, and "His Holiness," by Carl
Woodward and Marco Politi. Williams also served for 10 years as the radio
and television voice of the Denver Symphony Orchestra, and has served as
public affairs director for classical radio station KVOD in Denver.
Williams has also been a volunteer narrator at the Denver studio of
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, and served as its board chairman from
1993-1995.
The Scourby Awards will be broadcast over the Internet via RealAudio.
Rebroadcasts of highlights from the Scourby Awards will be available on
demand, beginning at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time, Tuesday, June 9, until 11:00
a.m. Eastern Time, Wednesday, June 10. To listen to the cybercast, you need
to have RealPlayer installed on your computer. If you do not already have
a copy of RealPlayer, you can use AFB's universally accessible download
form, located at: http://www.afb.org/ra_form.html, to obtain a copy of
RealPlayer.
Pat Price, Editor
Vision World Wide, Inc.
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Web: www.netdirect.net/vision-enhancement/
Steve Zielinski
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