Boston cleans up at the Grammys
mainAndris Nelsons’ DG debut with Shostakovich 10th won best orchestral performance. Seiji Ozawa (in Japan) won best opera recording.
Full winners’ list here.
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Seiji’s disc was recorded in 2013 and 2009.
The Grammy awards are weird, mostly political. No prestige.
Did I calculate correctly that only one of the Classical Grammy winners is a non-American (Seiji Ozawa) ? Apparently the European artists and orchestras are no match for the Americans ?
I googled “Stephen Paulus”, he is apparently an American composer that died a bit over a year ago. Might that explain why he got two Grammys this year ?
Just throwing questions….
Shostakovich, Ravel, Dutilleux… all non American music!
Which part of my comment did you not understand? “Apparently the European ARTISTS and ORCHESTRAS are no match for the Americans ?”
Shostakovich by BOSTON orchestra, Dutilleux by SEATTLE symphony… That’s what I’m talking about.
In fact, as an example, I was just checking the Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performances, here’s the list:
2016: Boston
2015: St Louis
2014: Minnesota
2013: San Francisco
2012: Los Angeles
2011: Nashville
2010: Boston
2009: Chicago
2008: Nashville
2007: San Francisco
2006: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (WOW! this was probably a mistake?)
2005: New York
2004: Wiener Philharmoniker (!!)
2003: San Francisco
2002: Chicago
2001: Berliner Philharmoniker (!)
2000: San Francisco
1999: Chicago
1998: Cleveland
1997: San Francisco
1996: Cleveland
1995: Chicago
1994: Chicago
1993: Berliner Philharmoniker (!)
1992: Chicago
1991: Chicago
1990: New York
1989: Atlanta
1988: Chicago
1987: Chicago
1986: Atlanta
1985: St Louis
1984: Chicago
1983: Chicago
1982: Chicago
1981: Chicago
1980: Chicago
(…)
In 35 years only 4 European orchestras have won the Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance !
To win a Grammy for Best Orchestral Performance you need to have an American orchestra !
Yes, just like you need to be an American film to win an Oscar (de facto, if not de jure). Nothing new there.
Well, the Grammies (Grammys?) are not the Oscars. They do not at all represent a world standard.
The following are equally prestigious, and two or three of them more so. In essence, each market favors its local artists:
Austria — Flötenuhr
Belgium — Prix Caecilia
Britain — Gramophone Award
Canada — Prix Mondial du Disque
France — Diapason d’Or
France — Grand Prix du Disque
France — Orphée d’Or
Germany — Echo Prize
Holland — Edison Award
Italy — Premio della Critica Discografica
Japan — Record Academy Prize
Spain — Gran Premio del Disco
United States — Grammy
United States — International Record Critics Award
Stephen Paulus was an esteemed American composer especially of choral music. He died suddenly and tragically and was only in his 60’s. I performed a lot of his music including the transcendent To Be Certain of The Dawn which we MN Orch recorded. Have a listen. His music most certainly deserves the recognition.
Are classical musicians even invited to the Grammys ceremony? (Or do they get their awards in the mail?)
I know I spotted Seiji Ozawa at the after party hanging with Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar.
DiDonato gave a great speech a few years back on defending the Arts.
Many were there and spoke. The big names usually aren’t since the schedule is made very late.
Taylor Swift is known for giving large amounts of money to orchestras. An excellent fifth columnist in enemy territory.
Anyone know who actually is part of the juries????? No one seems to know this.
Anyone who has ever been nominated or won. Plus, “voting members” of the Recording Academy.
https://www.grammypro.com/join#voting
The qualification is that musicians are cleared to vote only in their sub-field/genre, but they can also vote in the general field.
Not even Nelsons’s best Shostakovich disc – though certainly his best with a US orchestra.
Most impressive if nelson’s form. He really looks like he has a feel for America’s national pastime.
Bravo Andris
P.S. Let’s stop calling these people maestro (or maestra)
Oddly enough autocorrect on my Mac doesn’t register maestra!
Cannot agree more about the massive overuse of the term “maestro/maestra” It has now got so out of hand that almost every orchestra however big/small, professional/amateur, international/local uses it to describe whoever mounts their podia. There are in my view very few who actually deserve the title “master”. NL’s 1991 book title aptly sums up the present ridiculous situation – “The Maestro Myth”!
I repeat the story of Barenboim leaving after a dinner party in London and saying :”Thank you all for a wonderful evening, but particularly for not calling me ‘maestro’ ” (Love ‘podia’ btw
Like the US political system, Grammy voting is swayed by money, lobbying, and trendiness. I wonder how many of the nominees even get a fair listen before votes are cast.
What a sad commentary -the so called “classical ” world of music gets a well gnawed
bone thrown them at the end of the table & it results in headline,Boston Cleans Up…..
99 9/10 % of people watching haven’t the slightest interest in the Boston symphony.
Is that truly Nelsons with the baseball …how pathetic… can the next thing be the wife
singing the national anthem while he throws out the first ball …………….
You’re just so sad. Bitter and misanthropic. Is there absolutely no other way for you to get any attention at all?
Why the hate?
Congratulations to the Boston Symphony, as well as all of the other classical Grammy winners. Some true gems were spotlighted and it was a joy to see the Takacs Quartet perform (and win).
Did you actually see the Takacs perform at an awards ceremony? Nothing on my TV in the UK. We are too busy crucifying Stephen Fry for making a joke at the BAFTAS.
Yes. They performed at the actual award ceremony where they give roughly 70 awards.
Classical Grammys are irrelevant. Only a fraction of a years recordings are even entered, mostly by local American labels of course.
Nobody really knows who is actually voting and how. Totally intransparent.
They might as well throw a dice.
What a joke.