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 Grammy Award for Best Album for Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Grammy Award for Best Album for Children has been awarded since 1959.
In 1994 the award was divided into Best Musical Album for Children and Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were handed out, for music released in the previous year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Album_for_Children   (560 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com
(Award to the Conductor, Album Producer(s) and Principal Soloists.)
(Award to the Ensemble (and to the Conductor.))
(Award to the Artist(s) and/or to the Conductor.)
www.grammy.com /awards/grammy/46winners.aspx   (1589 words)

  
 Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op34 | Benjamin...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This Peter and the Wolf SACD won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album For Children, beating such nominated heavyweights as Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix spoken by Jim Dale, Winnie the Pooh spoken by Jim Broadbent and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory told by Eric Idle.
It is illustrated with drawings by children from Moscow orphanages.
It may well be the best recorded Peter and the Wolf yet.
www.this-is-great.com /info/xbfffffexgrf   (1994 words)

  
 TOM CHAPIN IN CONCERT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Children and the Arts Festival Committee announced today that acclaimed singer/songwriter Tom Chapin will perform on Sunday, May 19th at the Town House at 2 p.m.
A gifted entertainer, musician and songwriter, Chapin's 2002 narration of Thatcher Hurd's "Mama Don't Allow" has been nominated for a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Chapin's family albums, including Family Tree, Moonboat, Mother Earth, Billy The Squid, Zag Zig, and a concert video, This Pretty Planet: Tom Chapin Live in Concert have been recognized with awards from the American Library Association, Parent's Choice, the New York Music Awards, the National Association of Parenting Publications and Parents Magazine.
www.childrenandthearts.org /tom_chapin.html   (289 words)

  
 GRAMMY.com
(Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable.)
(Award to the Conductor and to the Orchestra.)
(Award to the Instrumental Soloist(s) and to the Conductor.)
www.grammy.com /awards/grammy/47winners.aspx   (1541 words)

  
 Column - "‘Slick Willy’ yearns for global leadership role"
He stayed in the news using a number of ostentatious tactics — moving his offices to Harlem, helping his wife get elected to the U.S. Senate, penning his memoirs and winning a Grammy Award for ‘best spoken word album for children’ (a narration for the Russian National Orchestra).
Arguably the most popular of all current or former (and living) world leaders, this is the man the United Nations chose to join fellow former president George H.W. Bush as a fundraising representative for tsunami relief.
Clinton’s celebrity and charisma are certain, but his qualifications and character are dubious at best.
www.angelfire.com /journal/ratpuppy/061405.html   (654 words)

  
 Tom Chapin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
He has recorded seven albums of adult-oriented material: Life is Like That (1976), In the City of Mercy (1982), Let Me Back Into Your Life (1986), So Nice to Come Home (1994), and Join The Jubilee (1996), his first live concert album.
One of his narrations, Mama Don't Allow, won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children, and another, There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly is nominated in the same category in 2003.
He has joined Save The Children in their mission to make lasting positive changes in the lives of disadvantaged children in the US and around the world.
members.aol.com /thechapincircle/cf/tom.html   (478 words)

  
 Live Oak Media Receives Audie Award
Accepting the award was Arnie Cardillo, owner and producer of Live Oak Media, who was also the producer of the four other finalists in the same category.
Live Oak Media has also received the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for the past two years.
In 2001, the Grammy went to MAMA DON"T ALLOW by Thacher Hurd, performed by Tom Chapin, and in 2002 the Grammy was awarded to THERE WAS AN OLD LADY WHO SWALLOWED A FLY by Simms Taback, also performed by Tom Chapin.
www.bookflash.com /releases/100740.html   (300 words)

  
 Patrick Doyle
It was supposed to be a simple story, about a book of three children's fables and music written to accompany them.
In "The Face in the Lake," spring escapes the deadly tyranny of winter and is reborn.
Finally, the book of children's fables and the CD of the music have been released.
web.syr.edu /~ebedgert/pd/spotlight-face.html   (668 words)

  
 Guilford College - Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev to Lecture on "Global Leadership" Oct. 6
Gorbachev was the leader of the former U.S.S.R. from 1985-91 and is credited by many in the West with ending the Cold War.
He streamlined and decentralized the Soviet Communist system he inherited and taught the world two new words: perestroika (governmental restructuring) and glasnost (political openness).
This year, he shared a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Children's Album with President Clinton and Sophia Loren.
www.guilford.edu /newsEvents/index.cfm?ID=600005310&print=yes   (323 words)

  
 RNO Scores a Grammy Win | Russian National Orchestra
The Russian National Orchestra recording of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and Jean-Pascal Beintus' Wolf Tracks, conducted by Kent Nagano, was the winner of a 2004 GRAMMY Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
RNO chief executive Sergei Markov said, "We are honored to have our work recognized by the Recording Academy's prestigious GRAMMY Award.
This was a truly international endeavor and a model of the artistic collaboration that characterizes the RNO." Nagano, who served as artistic director of the project, said, "The entire team was extraordinary, tied together by the rare combination of creative vision and inspired artistry."
www.russianarts.org /rno/pr020904.cfm   (327 words)

  
 Wizard News: Jim Dale returns to read Order of the Phoenix audio boo
Jim Dale, the Grammy Award-winning narrator of the Harry Potter audiobook recordings, will reprise his performance for HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX, J.K. Rowling’s fifth volume in the series.
The new unabridged recording from Listening Library is scheduled to go on sale in cassette and compact disc formats in the U.S. and Canada on Saturday, June 21, 2003, day and date with the hardcover book publication by Scholastic.
He also was nominated for an Academy Award for his lyrics for the song “Georgy Girl.”
www.wizardnews.com /story.200304032.html   (337 words)

  
 Award-Winning Storyteller and Musician to Perform June 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
ATHENS, Ohio -- Grammy Award winning storyteller and musician David Holt will present a "One Man Celebration of Stories and Songs" at 8 p.m.
His collection, "Grandfather's Greatest Hits," featuring the legendary Chet Atkins, Doc Watson and Duane Eddy playing together for the first time, received a 1992 Grammy Award nomination.
Holt's newest recording, "Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends," is up for a Grammy Award this year.
www.ohiou.edu /about/new/013-989.html   (304 words)

  
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Tom Chapin is a gifted entertainer who charms audiences of all ages and has gained widespread popular acclaim for his recordings aimed at 4 to 11 year-olds and their families.
Around The World and Back Again and In My Hometown, received the Parents’ Choice Award and were each nominated for a Grammy Award.
Glenn made history by winning a country Grammy for “Gentle On My Mind,” and a pop Grammy for “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” in the same year.
www.westminster.edu /Student/studentaffairs/events/celebrity1.html   (1011 words)

  
 Guilford College - Former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev to Headline Bryan Series in 2004-05
He was co-recipient this year of a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf.
Roberts is a commentator for ABC News, where she has covered the U.S. Congress, politics and public policy.
Beschloss is an award-winning historian of the U.S. presidency and the author of the acclaimed New York Times best seller The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945.
www.guilford.edu /newsEvents/index.cfm?ID=600004480   (463 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Peter and the Wolf: Wolf Tracks: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
A word about the beneficiaries of this project: Green Cross International was founded in 1993 by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who provides the CD's prologue, intermezzo, and epilogue in Russian.
Apparent immediately is that both understand how to talk to children, with warmth and candor, as if children were in the room.
Nothing here is cute, condescending or silly; there is not a trace of the hyperbolic, manufactured emotion so common to most audio/video productions for children now, only respect and the natural parity of storytellers and listeners having a good time.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000C9JCU?v=glance   (2231 words)

  
 AWN Headline News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Producers Guild of America has expanded the annual PGA Awards to include a seventh competitive category — Producer of the Year in Animated Film.
Winners were announced on Nov, 19, 2005, during the 3rd annual Spike TV "Video Game Awards 2005" ceremony held at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles.
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE had the best opening yet for the popular franchise, raking in $102.3M for the weekend ended Nov. 20, 2005.
news.awn.com /index.php3?ltype=top&newsitem_no=14463   (561 words)

  
 Hurricane
On television, he starred in the long-running hit series, St. Elsewhere.
In addition to his accomplishments on screen, Washington served as executive producer on the documentary Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream, which was nominated for an Emmy Award.
His narration of The Legend of John Henry was nominated for a Grammy Award as Best Spoken Word Album for Children, and he was awarded the NAACP Image Award for his performance in the animated children’s special Happily Ever After: Rumpelstiltskin.
www.the-hurricane.com /cast/dwpg2.html   (101 words)

  
 CD Universe - Your Online Music Store   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The first studio album since the death of Michael Hutchence.
Second release from the male quartet group, Deliver on pop classics as well as traditional fare.
Enya releases her first album of new material since 2000.
cduniverse.com /search/...+Dog+Chases+The+Cat:+Great+Animal+Stories.htm   (147 words)

  
 Educational Record Center providing children's media for schools and libraries
Educational Record Center providing children's media for schools and libraries
Grammy Award Winner - Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
Winner of a Caldecott Honor Medal, a Parents' Choice Gold Award, a Parenting Certificate of Excellence, and was chosen a New York Times Best Illustrated Book.
www.erckids.com /detail.asp?id=6136   (211 words)

  
 Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
These are the awards Hayden has been nominated for
These awards will be presented on November 19 so wish Hayden luck!
2000- Nominated- Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for: A Bug's Life Read-Along
www.expage.com /hpawards01   (108 words)

  
 Kent Nagano
His recording of Busoni’s Doktor Faust with the Opéra National de Lyon won the Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording.
The recording of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Jean-Pascal Beintus’ Wolf Tracks with the Russian National Orchestra for Pentatone was the winner of a 2004 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children.
He has what amounts to an open invitation to return to conduct at the Salzburg Festival, with triumphs in the past two festivals that include productions of Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francois d'Assise and Ferruccio Busoni's Doktor Faust.
www.berkeleysymphony.org /who/kent.htm   (695 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op34: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Children's Favorites [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered] ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), et al
Classical Music for Children: A Toddler's Introduction to Classical Music ~ Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), et al
Peter and the Wolf, children's tale for narrator & orchestra, Op.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001G70?v=glance   (2538 words)

  
 Patrick Doyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Sony Classical has a page on the CD,
The CD won a 2000 Grammy Award for Best Children's Spoken Word Album.
The Face in the Lake received its premiere at Carnegie Hall in February 1998.
web.syr.edu /~ebedgert/pd/othmus.html   (339 words)

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