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	College of Music - Loyola University New Orleans
		Loyola's three performing ensembles are preparing for a busy spring performance schedule; all performances are open to the public, and admission is free.
		The Loyola Chorale, whose spring concert is set for May 1, performed for the Louisiana chapter of the American Choral Directors Association in October, at the fall 2000 Vocal Conference in Baton Rouge.
		The Loyola Choirs were nominated for the "Best Choral Performance" award at the 2000 Tribute to the Classical Arts Awards for their presentation of Christmas at Loyola; this was the second year the choirs were nominated for that honor.
	www.musicbiz.loyno.edu /encore/2001/choraldeptnews.html (229 words)

	Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Operatic or Choral was awarded in 1959.
		Since 1962 the award has been divided into separate awards for opera and choral performances.
		See Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording and Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Classical_Performance,_Operatic_or_Choral (162 words)

	Choral Performance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Macalester College choral program is pleased to offer a wide variety of choral performance opportunities for students of widely varied ability levels and areas of interest.
		Other performance opportunities include Scotch Tape (men and women), Traditions (men) and Sirens (women), three student-run a capella ensembles that do fun popular music from past and present.
		The Twin Cities area is a hotbed of community, semi- and professional choral experiences.
	www.macalester.edu /music/getinvolved/choral.html (324 words)

	Grammy Awards of 1970 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)
		Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
		Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Large Group or Soloist With Large Group
	www.northmiami.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Grammy_Awards_of_1970 (448 words)

	Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Performed by Robert Spano and the ASO Chorus, this is "the ASO Music Director's finest recording to date, and it's one of the best for the Orchestra and Chorus since the heyday of Robert Shaw," according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
		Telarc presents the final recording to be made by the Dean of American choral conductors, Robert Shaw, leading the ASO and Chorus and soloists in one of their most stunning and magnificent performances ever to be immortalized on disc.
		Performed by the men of the Atlanta-based Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, with Norman Mackenzie, piano; Mary Akerman, guitar; Richard Clement and Karl Dent, tenors; and Martha Hart, mezzo soprano (in the famous Grillparzer "Ständchen").
	www.asochorus.org /Discography.asp (1105 words)

	NPR : The Classical Side of the Grammys
		Performance Today, February 14, 2005 · The 47th annual Grammy Awards were presented on Sunday night honoring musical recordings in 107 categories from rock to rap.
		Best Choral Performance: "Berlioz: Requiem," Robert Spano, conductor; Norman Mackenzie, choir director.
		Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra) : "Andre Previn: Violin Concerto/Bernstein: Serenade," Andre Previn,conductor; Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin (Boston Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Orchestra).
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4498129&sourceCode=RSS (362 words)

	Oberlin Conservatory of Music \| Backstage Pass
		Spano won the best choral performance award with Norman MacKenzie, ASO director of choruses, for the orchestra's recording of Hector Berlioz's Requiem, Op.
		Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra also won a Grammy for best engineered album for their Telarc recording of Jennifer Higdon's City Scape and Concerto for Orchestra, which was also nominated in three other categories: best classical album, best orchestral performance, and best classical contemporary composition.
		Spano also has to move aside a few Grammy awards on his bookshelf; in 2003 he and the ASO swept the three categories for which they were nominated (best classical album, best choral performance, and best engineered classical album) with their Telarc recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams' A Sea Symphony.
	www.oberlin.edu /con/bkstage/200502/grammy.html (453 words)

	Grammy Awards of 1977 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Best Arrangement for Voices (duo, group or chorus)
		Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
		Best RandB Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1977 (513 words)

	Grammy Awards of 1971 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group
		Best Contemporary Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus
		Best RandB Performance by a Duo or Group, Vocal or Instrumental
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Awards_of_1971 (579 words)

	Rosbalt.RU - printer friendly version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the category 'Best choral performance' conductor Valery Gergiev and soloists Gennady Bezzubenkov, Natalya Korneva, Victor Liutzuk, Fiodr Mozhayev and the orchestra and choir of the Mariinsky Theatre have been nominated for their performance of Sofia Gubaidulina's 'St John Passion'.
		In the category 'Best solo performance with an orchestra' violinist Yuri Bashmet and Valery Gergiev have been nominated for the compact disc 'Kanchelli: Styx, Gybaidulina: Concerto for alto with orchestra', which was recorded by the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra under the guidance of Valery Gergiev and Yuri Bashmet.
		Furthermore, in the category 'Best contemporary classical composition' Sofia Gubaidulina has been nominated for her 'St John Passion' as performed by the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra and choir.
	www.rosbaltnews.com /print/print?cn=60939 (301 words)

	The Choral Union - Conservatory of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lynda Hasseler, professor of music and director of choral activities in the Conservatory of Music at Capital University, directs the Chapel Choir and Choral Union and teaches choral methods and choral conducting.
		Hasseler is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator and clinician for a variety of choral events and festivals throughout the United States.
		A mezzo-soprano, she has performed, toured and recorded nationally and internationally as a member of several professional choral ensembles.
	www.capital.edu /acad/cons/conchorunion.htm (414 words)

	ASO Tour - Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ASOC is the first American chorus to be invited to perform with the renowned orchestra in a subscription series.
		The Chorus last performed in Berlin in 1988, when it appeared in concert with the ASO under the direction of the late Robert Shaw as part of its debut European tour.
		United by a passion for choral music, members give dozens of hours of their time each year to participate in ASO Chorus activities, be they subscription concerts, performances at Chicago's Ravinia Festival or singing the National Anthem at an Atlanta Falcons' home game.
	www.asotour.org /berlin/tour.htm (407 words)

	Global-Online-Store (United Kindom) Classical - Choral (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The professionalism and musicality of the performers is showed off with much delight in the "Tuba Mirum" with the four soloists appearing together for the first time, the string sections beautifully adding texture to the entire structure.
		I have seen and heard a live realy of this particular performance on the 27th of January 2001, and it was a profound and moving experience.
		A performance that gloriously achieves the desideratum of providing a genuine objective correlative to Beethoven’s superscript—‘From the heart — may it return to the heart!’ Making the only appropriate response that of the Gramophone reviewer—‘Heartfelt thanks!…’...
	uk.classical-online-store.com /best/classical/choral/1024093.html (4380 words)

	Monteverdi Choir (Choir) - Short History
		The Monteverdi Choir was founded at Cambridge in March 1964 by John Eliot Gardiner, then an undergraduate, for a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers (1610) in King's College Chapel, with the aim of introducing the colours and passion of Italian music to audiences reared on the English choral tradition.
		As an opera chorus, the Monteverdi Choir has performed in the theatres of La Scala, Milan; Zurich, Paris, Lyons and Strasbourg, drawing new audiences to the operas of Rameau and Gluck, the masques of Purcell and to the dramatic oratorios of Händel.
		Two of Haydn's late masses, namely the Nelson and Theresien Masses were performed at the Barbican Centre and at European venues and were recorded for DG Archiv by the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner in December 1997.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Monteverdi-Choir.htm (1082 words)

	The Conservatory Choir
		Most recently, the Choir won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance for its recording of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem which it recorded with the Washington Chorus and National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Robert Shafer.
		The group performed the world premiere of Jacob Druckman's Vox Humana with Mstislav Rostropovich and the the National Symphony in a performance that was broadcast nationally.
		It has performed with the 20th Century Consort at the Hirshhorn Museum as well as with the Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and several times in the distinguished concert series at the National Gallery of Art.
	www.su.edu /conservatory/scon/Ensembles/vocal/conservatory_choir.htm (245 words)

	Gramophone - News - The world's best classical music magazine
		The Best Opera category was won by last year’s Gramophone Record of the Year, Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by René Jacobs, and released by Harmonia Mundi.
		Best Choral Performance: Berlioz — Requiem, conducted by Robert Spano, on Telarc.
		Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): André Previn — Violin Concerto 'Anne-Sophie' / Bernstein — Serenade, conducted by Previn and performed by Anne-Sophie Mutter, on DG.
	www.gramophone.co.uk /newsMainTemplate.asp?storyID=2292&newssectionID=1 (235 words)

	NDSU Department of Music, Division of Fine Arts
		The choir has performed at many state and regional conventions and most recently was invited to perform at the 2001 National American Choral Directors Association Convention in San Antonio, Texas.
		Their performance of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Bramwell Tovey, was cited as the "Best Choral Performance of the Year" by the Winnipeg Free Press.
		She regularly prepares choirs for the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony, including recent performances of Mendelssohn's "Elijah," Vaughn William's "Sea Symphony," and Verdi's "Requiem." She has been the artistic director for the Fargo-Moorhead Chamber Chorale since 1996 and is musical director of the NDSU Baroque Festival, now in its' third year.
	www.ndsu.edu /finearts/music/faculty/miller.html (339 words)

	Choral Union performance reflects preparations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The SIUC Choral Union is a devotes an entire semester of rehearsal hours toward a single presentation.
		John Mochnick, director of choral events, said the size of the chorus and the complexity of the pieces limits the number of concerts the choir can present.
		All of the choral members have one thing in common - they each go out of their way to sing music.
	www.dailyegyptian.com /Spring98/4-23-98/ent_choral.html (524 words)

	CED Timeline of Historical Events for 1981
		Best Performance by an Actress in a Television-Series - Comedy/Musical
		Best Classical Performance, Instrumental Soloist(s) (With Orchestra) (tie) Berg, "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra"; Stravinsky, "Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra," Itzhak Perlman; Seiji Ozawa conducting Boston Symphony Orchestra Brahms, "Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello" (Double Concerto), Itzhak Perlman and Mstislav Rostropovich; Bernard Haitink conducting Concertgebouw Orchestra
		Best known for poignant folk-rock ballads like "Taxi" and "Cat's in the Cradle," his frequent benefit concerts raised funds for numerous causes and charities, including the campaign against world hunger.
	www.cedmagic.com /museum/press/ced-timeline.html (14154 words)

	Hanover College : Hanover College News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sacred works the group will perform originate from three different eras--the classical period, the romantic era, and the contemporary era--representing well-known masters such as Schubert, Bruckner and Faure, and contemporary composers such as Gawthrop and Stroppe.
		A successful conductor, pianist, singer, educator, and adjudicator, Batchvarova is the conductor of the Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, the premiere choral ensembles of Hanover College.
		Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Batchvarova holds a B.M. degree in music education in piano performance and solfege from the Academy of Music and Dance Art in Plovdiv and an M.M. degree in choral conducting from Georgia State University.
	www.hanover.edu /hanovertoday/news/choral.php (487 words)

	The Winchester Star-SU Choir Director Is Nominated for Grammy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shafer, 54, is being considered with four other conductors for the Best Choral Performance Award to the Choral/Orchestra Conductor.
		It was recorded and broadcast live by National Public Radio the day of the performance (April 14, 1995) at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In an interview from his Clifton home Tuesday morning, Shafer said he was “shocked,” when he learned he had been nominated for the award.
		Other nominees for the Best Choral Performance Award to the Choral/Orchestra Conductor include: Paul McCreesh for his recording of “Solomon” (Archive Records); Franz Welser-Most for “Book of the Seven Seals,” (EMI Classics); John Eliot Gardner, for “Mass in A Flat,” (Phillips); and Sir Simon Rattle for “Belshazzar’s Feast,” (EMI Classics).
	www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/000119/Area_grammy.asp (589 words)

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		Robert Shaw (conductor),the Robert Shaw Chorale & the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra for Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms/Poulenc: Gloria
		Robert Shaw (choir director) & the Robert Shaw Chorale for Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
		Robert Shaw (choir director) & the Robert Shaw Orchestra & Chorale for Bach: B Minor Mass
	www.online-encyclopedia.info /encyclopedia/g/gr/grammy_award_for_best_choral_performance.html (1089 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		Goerke appeared with the Collegiate Chorale in Carnegie Hall in a performance of Britten's War Requeim, made her debut at the Opera Company of Philadelphia as Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, and appeared in Tokyo as Chrysothemis in Elektra.
		This summer in addition to this appearance with Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in a concert performance of Götterdämmerung, and she appears with the London Philharmonic at the BBC Proms in a performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
		Next season, she sings Götterdämmerung at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and performs the Rossini Stabat Mater with Mark Elder and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=237 (335 words)

	Oregon Bach Festival \|
		Credo won the AFIM Indie award for best classical orchestral recording on an independent label, and the Cannes Classical Award as best album of music by a living composer.
		The Eugene performance was underwritten in part by the Hult Endowment Fund of the Arts Foundation of Western Oregon.
		Credo is scheduled for a Festival encore performance July 14, 2002.
	oregonbachfestival.com /pr_grammy.shtml (481 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E
		BEST CHORAL PERFORMANCE: Sibelius, Cantatas, Paavo Jarvi-Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Tiia-Ester Loitme, Ants Soots, chorus masters; Ellerhein Girls' Choir and Estonian National Male Choir.
		BEST CLASSICAL VOCAL PERFORMANCE: Schubert, Lieder with Orchestra, Thomas Quasthoff, bass-baritone; Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo soprano; Claudio Abbado-Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
		San Francisco Conservatory of Music students have been invited to perform in the Kennedy Center’s Conservatory Project, May 24-31, as part of the Kennedy Center's "Performing Arts for Everyone." SFCM is one of eight conservatories in the country to participate in the invitational event.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/music_news_2_10_04.php (1470 words)

	Dr. Madlen Batchvarova (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Dr. Batchvarova holds a BM in music education in piano performance and solfege from the Academy of Music and Dance Art in Plovdiv, and an MM in choral conducting from Georgia State University.
		Some highlights of her participation with the ensemble include a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance in 1998, Carnegie Hall performances of Bach’s Mass in B Minor, and Brahms’s Requiem and participation at the Opening Ceremony of the Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta.
		During the summer of 2002 she presented workshops on conducting and performance practices at the Thracian University in Bulgaria.
	www.hanover.edu /music/choral/conductor.html (404 words)

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