December 10th, 2006

December 10, 2006

Grammy Award

( Phoenix )
• Grammy award nominations are in.
• 99 tuba players take the stage for Tommy Johnson.
•Tanglewood Grounds damaged by hurricane.

It's KBAQ's "This week in classical music" -- an update on what's happening in the classical music world... I'm Randy Kinkel.

The grammy award nominations are in, and the five entries for Best Classical
Album are:

--Beethoven, Symphonies 1-9, Haitink, London Symphony orchestra, LSO Live.

--Lorraine Hunt Lieberson: Rilke Songs, the Six Realms, Horn Concerto. Peter Serkin, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Bridge records.

--Mahler Symphony #7, MichaelTilson Thomas, San Francisco Symphony,

--Martha Argerich and Friends: Live from the Lugano festival 2005, EMI Classics,

-- Mozart: La Clemenza Di Tito, Rene Jacobs, Sergio Foresti, Marie- Claude Chappuis, etc, Freiburg baroque Orchestra (Harmonia Mundi)

The Mahler 7 also was nominated in the best orchestral performance catagory and the Mozart's Clemenza was nominated for best opera recording. You can get a list of all the grammy nominations at http://www.grammy.com/

Hurricane force winds that ripped through Massachussetts last week caused $250,000 worth of damage to the Tanglewood Grounds, where the tanglewood festival is held every summer. Dave Sturma, Director of the Tanglewood facilities for the Boston Symphony, estimated it would take weeks or even months for the grounds to be cleared of storm debris. Sturma said there was minor damage to the mansion's roof and sign damage to the carriage house. He said there were 300 trees down on the grounds as a result of winds gusting up to 85 mph.

Two weeks ago 99 tuba players took the stage for a memorial concert for Studio musician Tommy Johnson, perhaps "the most-heard Tubist on the planet". Johnson, who played the theme of the shark in "Jaws" and the aliens song on "Close Encounters of the third Kind", was popular and an inspiration to tubists everywhere, who gathered to pay tribute to Johnson, who died in October of Cancer and Kidney failure.

For more information on these and other items and events, go to the KBAQ website at KBAQ.org... be listening every week at this time for another update, and join me at noon every weekday for the Mozart Buffet, an hour of music by Mozart and his contemporaries. I'm Randy Kinkel, for KBAQ's "This week in Classical Music" on 89.5 KBAQ Phoenix, a service of Rio Salado College and Arizona State University.