 Barbra Streisand: Honored for contribution to American culture
Barbra Streisand, the famous singer and actress, who has performed for Barack Obama at a Hollywood fundraiser sometime next week, will be feted in the capital sometime later this year for all her contributions to enrich American culture and the arts.
More news about Barbra Streisand has been gathered from multiple sources. She has joined actor Morgan Freeman, dancer-choreographer Twyla Tharp, country music singer George Jones and British rock singers namely Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who as the 2008 recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors. On Tuesday the organizers have brought out the confirmation of this news.
On 7th December honorees for the 31st annual awards will be saluted during a celebration at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush will attend the ceremony. The president will receive the honorees earlier that evening at the White House.
CBS will broadcast the event, thereby highlighting Washington’s cultural calendar, sometime later in the month as a two-hour special program.
"With their extraordinary genius and tenacity, the 2008 honorees have redefined the way we see, hear and feel the performing arts," Stephen Schwarzman, chairman of Kennedy Center has said this in a statement.
Sixty six year old Barbra Streisand has blazed an extraordinary trail through musical performances, theater, film and television for 4 decades since she became the toast of Broadway. She also has launched a Grammy-winning recording career and won her first Oscar award for the 1968 musical "Funny Girl."
News of her Kennedy Center honor came a day after the supporters of Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, has announced that Streisand would sing at a fundraising reception for the Illinois senator in Beverly Hills, California on next Tuesday.
Presently seventy one year old Morgan Freeman who co-stars in the blockbuster Batman movie sequel "The Dark Knight," is recovering from injuries after he suffered last month in a car crash near his home in Mississippi.
The work of sixty seven year old Tharp helped to transform modern dance, contemporary ballet and the Broadway musical, while country crooner namely Jones, who is seventy six year old, once singled out by Frank Sinatra as "the second best singer in America.” |
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