McDonald’s® is proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of
The HistoryMakers’ An Evening with Quincy Jones.
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A PBS-TV Special to benefit The HistoryMakers®
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 |
DREAMMAKER $25,000
• 10 reserved tickets to An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Sponsorship mention and logo display in credits of An Evening With Quincy Jones PBS-TV Special
• One page ad in program book for An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Website banner advertising for one month before and after the event
• Logo placement on all printed event materials
WISHMAKER $10,000
• 4 reserved tickets to An Evening With Quincy Jones
• One half-page ad in program book for An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Listing in program book for An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Listing in credits of An Evening With Quincy Jones PBS-TV Special
GIFTMAKER $5,000
• 2 reserved tickets to An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Listing in program book for An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Listing in credits of An Evening With Quincy Jones PBS-TV Special
SPONSOR AN INTERVIEW in Quincy Jones' Name $2,500
• 1 reserved ticket to An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Listing in program book for An Evening With Quincy Jones
• Listing on Sponsored HistoryMaker webpage
This hour-long, one-on-one interview program provides a unique and insightful look at the life and career of music mogul Quincy Jones. Taped live in Washington, D.C. at George Washington University’s Jack Morton Auditorium on Thursday, September 27, 2007, this program is the thirteenth in The HistoryMakers’ An Evening with. . . series. Television journalist, moderator and managing editor of Washington Week, Gwen Ifill interviewed the legendary Quincy Jones with McDonald’s Corporation acting as the event’s presenting sponsor. This special program includes live musical performances by Lesley Gore, BeBe Winans, James Ingram, Bobby McFerrin and Herbie Hancock.
In the interview, Quincy shares his life story including growing up in Chicago, establishing a musical career in Seattle, working with music greats such as Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson and his career as a film and television producer, composer, record company executive, magazine founder and multi-media entrepreneur. This informative interview will reveal some things you may not have known about Mr. Jones, and the musical performances will have you snapping your fingers and tapping your feet!
An Evening With Quincy Jones is a celebration of Quincy’s life and career that spans over six decades.
The HistoryMakers would like to thank Quincy Jones, Joseph E. Robert, Jr., Debbie Ingram, our staff, volunteers and corporate sponsors for making the program a great success!
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(Above Left):Quincy Jones. (Above Right): Gwen-Ifill and Quincy Jones on stage. (Bottom Left): Crew Photo.
(Bottom Right): BeBe Winans
Quincy Jones
An impresario in the broadest and most creative sense of the word, Quincy Jones’ career has encompassed the roles of composer, record producer, artist, film producer, arranger, conductor, instrumentalist, TV producer, record company executive, television station owner, magazine founder, multi-media entrepreneur and humanitarian. Among the multitude of awards that he has received for his contributions are an Emmy Award, seven Academy Award nominations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, 27 Grammy Awards, and is the all-time most nominated Grammy artist with a total of 79 nominations. Recently, he was inducted as a Kennedy Center Honoree, America’s most prestigious artistic award, for his lifetime contributions to the culture of the country, and is the recipient of the Commandeur de la Legion d’ Honneur.
Most recently, Quincy Jones added the title “Best Selling Author” to his list of accomplishments when his autobiography Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones entered The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Wall Street Journal Best-Sellers lists. Released by Doubleday Publishing, the critically acclaimed biography retells Jones’ life story from his days as an impoverished youth on the Southside of Chicago through a massively impressive career in music, film and television where he worked beside legends such as Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald and Michael Jackson, among many others. In conjunction with the autobiography, Rhino Records released a 4-cd boxed set of Jones’ music, spanning his more than 5 decade career in the music business, entitled Q: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones.
Gwen Ifill
Pioneering journalist Gwen Ifill was born in Queens, New York in 1955. After earning her B.A. degree in communications from Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1977, Ifill was hired by The Boston Herald American in the midst of the city’s notorious busing crisis. Starting out as a food critic, Ifill had her first taste of politics while covering school board meetings in Boston. After joining the Baltimore Evening Sun, she moved to covering national politics. In 1984, Ifill was hired by The Washington Post, and in 1991, she became the White House correspondent for The New York Times. In 1994, she was named the chief Congressional correspondent for NBC, and in 1999, she became the moderator of PBS’ Washington Week in Review as well as a correspondent for The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. In October of 2004, Ifill became the first African American woman to moderate a vice-presidential debate.
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