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	Turtle Island String Quartet \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Turtle Island Quartet was honored to have its latest recording 4 +Four win the GRAMMY Award for Best Classical Crossover Album at the 48th Annual GRAMMY Awards Ceremony on Wednesday, February 8, 2006.
		This award means that the creative potential of classical music is being recognized, acknowledged and appreciated, says Balakrishnan, and we are honored to share that with the Ying Quartet, who represent the purity of this great tradition.
		Blending a comprehensive understanding of the classical string tradition with a virtuosic assimilation of 20th century American styles, TIQ continues to redefine the string quartet for the new century.
	www.tisq.com /grammy.htm (398 words)

	U2 upstages Mariah Carey at Grammy Awards - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
		Grammy voters, for the first time, honored a contestant on the Fox television smash "American Idol," granting that populist phenomenon a measure of acceptance from the musical establishment.
		U2 took home two of the most prestigious Grammys, album of the year for "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" (Interscope) and song of the year for "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own." Bono, the group's lead singer, said the album was largely a rumination on his often difficult relationship with his father.
		She won two Grammys in 1990, including the best new artist award, but her career took a downturn in 2001 when the movie "Glitter," in which she starred, and its soundtrack were poorly received.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/02/09/arts/web.0209grammy.php (1144 words)

	Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album has been awarded since 1999.
		Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
		Classical Crossover Forum Forum to chat about classical crossover music.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Classical_Crossover_Album (234 words)

	Oberlin Conservatory of Music \| Backstage Pass
		The album, which was recorded in Atlanta's Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center, features MacKenzie directing the ASO Chorus with tenor soloist Frank Lopardo.
		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)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- Newcomer Norah Jones wins 5 Grammys
		The music of pop-jazz chanteuse Norah Jones garnered eight Grammy awards Sunday night, including album and record of the year, capping a year where the sultry singer catapulted to international acclaim.
		NEW YORK – The music of pop-jazz chanteuse Norah Jones garnered eight Grammy awards Sunday night, including album and record of the year, capping a year where the sultry singer catapulted to international acclaim.
		She also won for best female pop vocal, best new artist and for record of the year for "Don't Know Why," written by Jesse Harris, who won the song of the year Grammy.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20030223-2058-grammys.html (843 words)

	Sharon Isbin CD Receives Grammy For Rouse Concerto
		A GRAMMY was awarded for the Christopher Rouse Guitar Concerto written for and performed by Sharon Isbin.
		The award was announced at the 44th annual GRAMMY Awards on February 27, 2002 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in a televised ceremony broadcast to over 1.7 billion viewers in 175 countries.
		Sharon Isbin received a GRAMMY Award in 2001 for her solo disc 'Dreams of a World', and is a three time nominee.
	www.worldguitarist.com /isbin_grammy1.html (297 words)

	Latest News (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Classic Sound completed the set of Brahms symphonies with Haitink conducting the LSO.the recording of the 3rd and 4th Symphonies was on the DSD format.
		Classic Sound were delighted to hear that Dan Jones, composer for the Filmscore 'Max' won the Ivor Novello award for his efforts.
		Classic Sound, the only recording studio in the UK dedicated to classical music and film, has recently invested in a new Genex 9048 DSD Recorder, the first to be purchased in the UK.
	www.classicsound.net.cob-web.org:8888 /latest_news.htm (2388 words)

	Booksontape.com : Award Winners : GRAMMY® Awards (Best Spoken Word Album)
		The GRAMMY Awards continue to celebrate the best in recording arts and sciences.
		Covering 104 categories, the awards honor recordings in musical fields as diverse as pop, rock, jazz, blues, rap, classical and even polka.
		A GRAMMY is awarded by and to artists and technical professionals for artistic or technical achievement, not sales or chart positions.
	www.booksontape.com /awards.cfm/grammyawar (145 words)

	Midland presents award-winning musicians (Gladwin, Michigan ) 01-02-2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edgar Meyer is a Grammy Award-winning composer, arranger and performer who shines in both classical and bluegrass repertoire, a scope that earned him a “genius” grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
		A champion of mixing musical genres, Meyer’s collaboration with violinists Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O’Connor resulted in the widely acclaimed album, Appalachia Waltz and the subsequent Appalachia Journey, which won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Crossover Album in 2000.
		Nickel Creek’s latest album, Reasons Why (The Very Best), currently holds the number one spot on Billboard’s Bluegrass Chart and Thile’s latest solo album, How To Grow a Woman From the Ground, has been on the charts for 11 consecutive weeks, peaking at number two.
	www.gladwinmi.com /placed/story/01-02-2007musicians.html (462 words)

	CNN.com - Beyonce tops with five Grammys - Feb. 9, 2004
		In accepting the album award, OutKast was thoughtful, bringing L.A. Reid -- the music exec who gave the group a recording contract -- up on the stage and thanking him profusely.
		Timberlake received five nominations, and in the preshow, he won the Grammy for best pop vocal album for "Justified." Jackson did not attend the show; she was originally supposed to take part in the tribute to Vandross.
		The Grammys paid tribute to the Beatles during the show, and gave the group the Presidents' Award on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its arrival in the United States.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/02/08/grammy.night/index.html (1280 words)

	Product Detail (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His use of colors, technique and the excitement of his playing are thought by many to be unrivalled, and his performances of works as diverse as those of Domenico Scarlatti and Alexander Scriabin were equally legendary.
		His first recording of Liszt's Sonata (1932) is still considered by many piano afficionadi as the definitive reading of that piece, almost 75 years later, with almost 100 other performances committed to disc.
		The little finger of his right hand was always curled tight until it needed to play a note; as music critic Harold Schonberg put it, "it was like a strike of a cobra" (The Great Pianists 436).
	www.shermanclay.com.cob-web.org:8888 /phoenix/legends/index_files/Page594.htm (1509 words)

	Yo-Yo Ma Summary
		The album, called "Yo-Yo Ma Inspired by Bach," was also the basis of a six-part television series that aired on the Public Broadcasting System (PBS).
		Also a Grammy winner, this recording was based largely on the work of the late Argentine Tango master, Astor Piazzolla.
		In 1999 he was awarded the prestigious Glenn Gould Prize.
	www.bookrags.com /Yo-Yo_Ma (2859 words)

	GRAMMY.com - 49th Annual Grammy Awards Nominee List
		(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
		(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
		(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
	www.grammy.com /GRAMMY_Awards/49th_Show/list.aspx (3929 words)

	NPR's Talk of the Nation Explores "The Changing Face of America"
		For the first time, a CD recorded by National Public Radio (NPR) has won a Grammy Award -- it is a recording of Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem", which was produced by NPR Senior Producer Benjamin Roe, Producer Bruce Scott, and NPR Recording Engineers John Widoff and Bill McQuay, and designed by NPR's Creative Services.
		The Grammy Award, for Best Choral Performance, went to The Washington Chorus and Orchestra.
		NPR figured in the nomination for two other 2000 Grammy Awards: Best Classical Album and Best Engineered Album in the Classical Music category for "Dvorak: Stabat Mater," containing a full-length interview by NPR's Martin Goldsmith with the late conductor, Robert Shaw.
	www.npr.org /about/press/000224.grammy.html (506 words)

	Entertaiment of China--Inspired by Yo-Yo Ma
		Ma is an exclusive Sony Classical artist, and his discography of nearly fifty albums includes fourteen Grammy Awards.
		The Gramophone prize capped a remarkable year of achievement in recording, with Sony Classical releases including Soul of the Tango, featuring the tango music of Astor Piazzolla (awarded the 1999 GRAMMY for Best Classical Crossover Album); Tan Dun's Symphony 1997; and the soundtrack recording of Liberty!, a PBS documentary series about the American Revolution.
		Yo-Yo Ma's most recent solo recording, Solo, released in September 1999, is the first album to be included as part of the cellist's three-year "Silk Road" project, which emphasises the musical folk traditions of territories along the ancient silk trading route.
	www.chinavoc.com /entertainment/focus/yoyo.htm (937 words)

	Stereophile: Audiophile Gold Among the 2006 Grammy Nominees
		In the final voting round for Grammy Award winners, Recording Academy members may vote in the four general categories and in no more than eight of the 31 fields.
		While name recognition and big label pressure have been known play a major part in voting process—a pop producer with rudimentary knowledge of classical music, for example, may choose to vote in the classical category simply because she/he knows one of the nominees—the Academy's track record for nominating high quality discs is quite good.
		In the classical categories in particular, instances of the finest music garnering fewer votes than the formulaic are too numerous to mention.
	www.stereophile.com /news/121106grammy (1219 words)

	Telarc International: Telarc News
		The 46th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 8, 2004.
		The 44th Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 27, 2002.
		Best know as one of the first artists signed by Chris Blackwell to Island Records and for his work with the great Bob Marley, Ranglin's Telarc September 2000 debut, Modern Answers to Old Problems, is an adventurous mix of jazz sophistication and Afro-pop syncopation.
	www.telarc.com /news?mscssid=SMGHD2UT1VRJ9HB71VQTSQ3GADHX6ADC (3346 words)

	MSN Music - 2005 Grammy Awards
		Classical Album: "Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls," Lorin Maazel, conductor; John Adams and Lawrence Rock, producers.
		Classical Contemporary Composition: "Adams: On the Transmigration of Souls," John Adams (Lorin Maazel; Brooklyn Youth Chorus and New York Choral Artists; New York Philharmonic).
		Album Notes: "The Complete Columbia Recordings of Woody Herman and His Orchestra and Woodchoppers (1945-1947)," Loren Schoenberg, album notes writer (Woody Herman and His Orchestra).
	music.msn.com /grammys/2005List (1045 words)

	Kronos Quartet
		Grammy Award Nomination—Best Classical Crossover Album for The Tiger Lillies with Kronos Quartet, The Gorey End (USA) 2003
		New York Bessie Award 1998 for River, composed by Somei Satoh and performed with Eiko and Koma
		Best New Music Ensemble 1997 Global Classical Music Poll (60 countries) www.classical.insites.com
	www.kronosquartet.org /info/awards.html (548 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959.
		This award is presented alongside the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
		From 1960 to 1965 a further award was presented for Best Engineered Recording - Special or Novel Effects.
	reference.com.cob-web.org:8888 /browse/wiki/Best_Classical_Engineered_Recording (1143 words)

	Centrum - Edgar Meyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The album, Short Trip Home, released in Fall 1999, was nominated for a Grammy award in the category of Best Classical Crossover album and the group was subsequently invited to perform live at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards.
		An exclusive Sony Classical artist who is ever involved in imaginative projects, Meyer's latest venture is a collaboration with himself.
		On Sony Classical, Meyer and colleagues Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O' Connor have been widely acclaimed for the release of Appalachia Waltz, which soared to the top of the charts and remained there for sixteen weeks.
	www.centrum.org /index.php?page=Edgar-Meyer (791 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - U2 dominates Grammy night
		Bono once called his group U2 the "best band in the world" and it lived up to that reputation in Los Angeles Wednesday night, taking home five Grammy Awards, including album and song of the year.
		Damian Marley, the son of reggae icon Bob Marley, was among the few performers present for the non-televised pre-show, with his album Welcome to Jamrock winning best reggae album and the title song being named best urban/alternative performance.
		The majority of the 108 Grammy categories were announced at the earlier ceremony, including the Latin, gospel and classical music winners, with William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience — conducted by Leonard Slatkin and featuring Canadian opera singer Measha Brueggergosman — netting best choral performance, best classical album and best classical contemporary composition.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2006/02/08/grammy-awards-06.html (2297 words)

	New Orleans Friends of Music - Presenting the world's finest chamber music...for a song.
		Dedicated to the performance of the classical repertoire, the Emerson String Quartet also has a strong commitment to the commissioning and performance of 20th-century music.
		The ensemble's members were honored by the governor of Connecticut for their outstanding cultural contributions to the state and in 1994 received the University Medal for Distinguished Service from the University of Hartford.
		Kahane an array of prestigious awards, and has made him one of the most celebrated and sought-after musicians of his generation.
	www.friendsofmusic.org /c_emersonkahane.htm (1345 words)

	SONY BMG MASTERWORKS - NEWS
		One of the album’s tracks – “On Her Majesty's Secret Service” – broke out as a successful dance hit, and two were others released as chart singles.
		Two-time Grammy Award winner Grace Row is producing Voice of the Violin, and the recording is engineered by Charles Harbutt, also a two-time Grammy Award winner.
		His classical works include a chamber opera commis¬sioned for the Edin¬burgh festival; Visconti, a homage to filmmaker Luchino Visconti that was performed at the Stockhausen Festival at the Barbican; and various other orchestral commissions for the Northern Sinfonietta, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the BT Ensemble, and the Hebrides Ensemble.
	www.sonybmgmasterworks.com /news (13335 words)

	Banjo Player Béla Fleck, Bassist Edgar Meyer Will Present Acoustic Program Sept. 17 at Williams Center
		A five-time Grammy winner, Fleck made his Lehigh Valley premiere at Lafayette in March 1996 with his Flecktones band as part of that year's Roethke Humanities Festival on "High Art and Pop Culture." Fleck also performed the acoustic program he developed with Meyer and Mike Marshall, "Uncommon Ritual," at the Williams Center in October 1997.
		As a classical bassist, Meyer released an album of Bach’s Unaccompanied Suites for Cello and recorded a concerto album with St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.
		Their album, Short Trip Home, was nominated for a Grammy award as Best Classical Crossover and the group was subsequently invited to perform live at the 42nd annual Grammy Awards.
	www.lafayette.edu /news.php/view/4438 (840 words)

	Short Trip Home - Home
		Short Trip Home is a genre-shattering recording of original new music from renowned bassist and composer Edgar Meyer, co-composer of the hit album Appalachia Waltz (SK 68460), which has sold 200,000 copies.
		Meyer is joined by virtuoso violinist and good friend Joshua Bell whose recording of John Corigliano's score for the movie The Red Violin (SK 63010) has garnered rave reviews worldwide and has been on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart since its release.
		SONY CLASSICAL and the Sony Classical logo are registered trademarks of, and are used under license from, Sony Corporation.
	www.sonyclassical.com /music/60864/home.html (452 words)

	Kanye West makes a splash at Grammy nominations / Young rapper will contend in 10 categories; Keys, Usher net eight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		John Adams' "On the Transmigration of Souls" recording by the New York Philharmonic was nominated as Best Classical Album and Best Orchestral Performance.
		He was also nominated for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for the piece, which commemorates the lives lost on the September 11 terrorist attacks.
		This year's Grammy broadcast will be swan song for producer Pierre Cossette, who has produced the annual awards show since 1971, the first year the Grammy were nationally televised.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/12/07/GRAMMY07.TMP (569 words)

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