MARTHA ARGERICH, EAGLES, AL PACINO, MAVIS STAPLES, AND JAMES TAYLOR TO RECEIVE 39TH ANNUAL KENNEDY CENTER HONORS
America to Celebrate Honorees’ Lifetime Artistic Achievements
(WASHINGTON)—The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of five Honorees who will receive the 2016 Kennedy Center Honors. Recipients to be honored at the 39th annual national celebration of the arts are: Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, rock band the Eagles,screen and stage actor Al Pacino, gospel and blues singer Mavis Staples, and musician James Taylor.
"The Kennedy Center Honors celebrates the spectacular talents of artists whose brilliance has left a lasting impact on our society,” stated Kennedy Center Chairman David M. Rubenstein. “These Honorees represent what is possible when creativity is not just cultivated, but unleashed. Martha Argerich’s distinguished performances have spanned the globe and over the last six decades have earned her world recognition as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th and 21st centuries; the Eagles’s ambitiously themed albums epically merged the American West and rock n’ roll, paving the way for unconventional music makers and artists to come; Al Pacino has em ...More...
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