<Li> 2015--Carole King, George Lucas, Rita Moreno, Seiji Ozawa, and Cicely Tyson </Li> <Li> 2016--Martha Argerich, Eagles (Don Henley, Timothy B. Schmit and Joe Walsh, with Glenn Frey), Al Pacino, Mavis Staples, and James Taylor </Li> <Li> 2017--Carmen de Lavallade, Gloria Estefan, LL Cool J, Norman Lear, and Lionel Richie </Li> <P> Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was to be an honoree, but the selection committee withdrew the offer when Horowitz conditioned his acceptance on being honored alone and at 4 in the afternoon . Actress Katharine Hepburn declined the committee's first offer, though she relented in 1990 . </P>

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