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Francis Ford Coppola receives lifetime achievement award at star-studded event with politicians, actors and directors
Photograph: Taylor Hill/FilmMagicThis year’s recipients of the lifetime achievement award for artistic accomplishment were the director Francis Ford Coppola, the rock band the Grateful Dead, the jazz trumpeter Arturo Sandoval, the singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt and Harlem’s storied Apollo Theater – the first time a cultural institution has been honoured. “It’s her old soul that just grips us,” said the actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus before a performance by Dave Matthews and Emmylou Harris of Raitt’s classic Angel from Montgomery and I Can’t Make You Love Me,, sung by Brandi Carlile with a piano accompaniment by Sheryl Crow. For the 90-year-old Apollo Theater, where black performers such as Ella Fitzgerald, James Brown and Gladys Knight launched their careers, the actor and comedian Dave Chappelle regaled the audience with a story about his debut there as a 15-year-old.
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