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Leonard Slatkin is 2003 Fine Arts Radio International® Lifetime Achievement Award Honoree
Leonard Slatkin, music director of the National Symphony Orchestra, is chosen for his considerable contribution to music education, exemplified by his excellent radio series of 2001-2002 season concerts The National Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, produced by WETA-FM/Washington, D.C.The Fine Arts Radio International® Awards were launched in 2000 to recognize achievement in classical music education through the medium of radio. The separate Lifetime Achievement Award was created to recognize those with long-term achievement in that area. Karl Haas, producer and host of Adventures in Good Music, was the inaugural recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. Peter Schickele and Martin Bookspan were, respectively, the second and third Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, recognized for their outstanding radio contributions to music education.
88.7KXMS / Fine Arts Radio International® is a cultural resource of Missouri Southern State University, broadcasting classical music and other fine arts programming 24 hours a day. The non-profit Klassix Society was incorporated in 1990 in support of KXMS and classical music.
Contributions in support of the award may be directed to The Klassix Society at 3950 E. Newman Road, Joplin, Missouri 64801-1595.
Text of the Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient's Letter:
4 June 2004
Leonard Slatkin
National Symphony Orchestra
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20566Dear Maestro:
Since the eve of the third millennium, the Klassix Society, the Friends of 88.7KXMS/ Fine Arts Radio International , has made excellence in classical music education one of its institutional missions. The result has been two-fold: an international contest recognizing the work of radio producers who further classical music education, and a lifetime achievement award bestowed on those who not only produce classical radio, but whose contributions to music education has been significant over a greater span of time.
Mr. Slatkin, you are the fourth recipient of the crystal trophy signifying exceptional contribution to music education, not only through the medium of radio, exemplified by the series The National Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin, but for your tireless advocacy of music education through lectures, publications, and the myriad resources of the National Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
On this occasion, the Klassix Society welcomes you as a new member of a select group of honorees Karl Haas, Peter Schickele, and Martin Bookspan all brothers in the medium of radio and devoted advocates for music education. It is with great pride that I present you with the crystal flame of Lifetime Achievement from the Fine Arts Radio International Awards 2003.
On Behalf of the Klassix Society,
Jeffrey D. Skibbe
General Manager
88.7KXMS/Fine Arts Radio International
88.7KXMS is an international cultural resource of Missouri Southern State University