ASCAP Icon Marvin Hamlisch Feted by The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard

(l to r): Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman
(Photographer: David Livingston/Getty Images)

An intimate crowd of friends and colleagues gathered at Catalina Jazz Club on November 18th to honor music legend Marvin Hamlisch as he was presented with the prestigious Hollywood Reporter/Billboard Maestro Award. Longtime collaborator and ASCAP Board member Marilyn Bergman presented Hamlisch with the award, after which Hamlisch and Alan Bergman treated the audience to a moving rendition of their Oscar and Grammy-winning classic, "The Way We Were." Hamlisch's Maestro Award honor comes less than a month after he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Soundtrack Awards in Ghent, Belgium.

Later on that same evening, ASCAP and the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) hosted a screening of the new Stephen Soderbergh film The Informant! It was followed by a Q&A session with Hamlisch and the Bergmans, who rekindled their musical partnership to write the song "Trust Me" for the film.