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L.A. Opera Extends Domingo

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L.A. Opera Extends Domingo
The Los Angeles Opera has announced a contract extension for nine-time GRAMMY and three-time Latin GRAMMY winner Plácido Domingo, who will continue as general director of the L.A. Opera through the 2012–2013 season. The contract contains a provision for automatic renewal thereafter by mutual consent. Domingo, who will be honored as the 2010 Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year in November, has served as general director of the L.A. Opera since 2003, and served as artistic advisor from 1986–2003. (9/21)

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Montreal-based indie group Karkwa's Les Chemins De Verre was named the winner of the 2010 Polaris Music Prize. The honor recognizes the best Canadian album of the past year across all genres and includes a cash award of $19,400. Other artists nominated for the prize included Broken Social Scene, Caribou, Dan Mangan, Radio Radio, and Tegan And Sara. (9/21)
 

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A Night At The Opera

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Now in its 14th year, the annual GRAMMY Salute to Classical Music is one of many Los Angeles-based events leading up to Music's Biggest Night on Jan. 31. This year's honoree, presented the President's Merit Award at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday night, was one of those indisputable and inevitable choices: masterful tenor (and not-so-secretly, baritone), educator, administrator, and all-around musical powerhouse Plácido Domingo, with a nearly 50-year career and a gleaming global presence.

As it happened, the timing and regional positioning couldn't have been more appropriate: Domingo's now eight-year stint as general director of the Los Angeles Opera has reached a recent zenith with the company's lavish, surreal, ambitious, and long-awaited production of Wagner's Ring cycle, culminating this spring.

At presentation's end, the gracious tenor — in "street" clothes rather than his customary operatic wardrobe — alluded briefly to the current Ring factor in his acceptance speech. But on this occasion, the focus was more on the broad swath than on this season's buzzes (which would also include the singer's first U.S. performance as a baritone, in the Metropolitan Opera's recent production of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra).

Master of ceremonies and longtime classical radio broadcaster Rich Caparella led the proceedings, recounting the Domingo story to-date while stirring in current projects musical interludes. Born in Madrid, Spain, in 1941, and raised in Mexico City, Domingo made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1968 and has thus logged more than 600 performances in that hallowed hall, along with eventually establishing himself as a titan among opera figures. Along the way came the Three Tenors, directing the Washington and L.A. Opera companies, winning seven GRAMMY and three Latin GRAMMY Awards, and taking on more than 130 roles, an unprecedented achievement for an opera singer.

What would a Domingo tribute be without music? Grant Gershon, of Los Angeles Master Chorale fame, conducted a pared-down complement of players from the L.A. Opera orchestra, and four gifted young singers, some who are products of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artists Program. The 18-year-old tenor Sean Michael Plumb sang "Bella Siccome Un Angelo" from Donizetti's Don Pasquale, and baritone José Adán Pérez represented the Spanish zarzuela genre championed by Domingo (his parents ran a zarzuela company in Mexico City) with "Amor, Vida De Mi Vida" by Federico Moreno Torroba. Tenor Davíd Lomelí nailed the high notes and high emotionality of "Che Gelida Manina," from Puccini's La Boheme, and from the feminine end of the spectrum came soprano Ana María Martínez, who has worked with Domingo and is busy carving out her own international reputation, wowing with "Song To The Moon" from Dvorák's Rusalka. All the while, the kindly and approving master sat in the front row, just a thrown kiss or two away from the spotlighted singers.

At evening's end, Recording Academy President/CEO Neil Portnow did the honors of presenting the President's Merit Award. Ever the gracious legend, Domingo took the microphone and called the presentation, "A very thrilling and emotional evening. After recording for over 42 years, it is difficult to remember each one. But certainly, it's the most terrible thing to listen to them. You remember exactly what you were not doing right. I can tell you that this is absolutely true. You have to be very demanding of yourself.

"We have this privilege to make people happy. For those few hours, they can forget about their troubles. As performers, this is the greatest privilege."

(To view photos from GRAMMY Salute To Classical Music and other GRAMMY Week events, click here.)
 

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Classical Highlights In 2010

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We are living in a tremendously exciting time for classical music. The range of what's possible and the creative energy and inventiveness to be found in our field — it's just dazzling. Whatever your tastes and preferences, there's something out there to delight you. Of course, there are challenges. Funding is always a concern, and a difficult economy has made things even harder for many organizations, but I believe these challenges are outnumbered by exciting developments.

Now, I'm only one music nerd, so I can't summarize everything that went on in classical music in 2010, but I'll present a few highlights from my musical journey, along with a few interesting and quirky things that made classical music news.

My year started off with a bang as I made my first trip to the GRAMMYs last January! I met GRAMMY Salute To Classical Music honoree Plácido Domingo and heard Sharon Isbin perform live at the GRAMMY Pre-Telecast, among other exciting things. I can't wait to see who I might run into at the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards next week!

I'm still a relative newcomer to Boston, so I spent 2010 getting to know the local classical scene, which is extensive and thriving. Among the ensembles I've been following are Cantata Singers, who have adopted the approach of focusing primarily on one composer each season. They choose composers whose work merits attention, but aren't commonly in the spotlight. German composer Heinrich Schütz was featured in 2009–2010, and English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams is being featured in the current season.

Another one of my "home teams" is the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. BMOP is a tireless champion of recently composed music, and their in-house label, BMOP/sound, scored three nominations this year via Mackey, Steven: Dreamhouse.

And then, of course, there's the Boston Symphony Orchestra. One of the most enjoyable events of the year was Project Tchaikovsky, a fashion contest in conjunction with the BSO's Tchaikovsky concert series last April that paired music with evening-wear fashion, and gave young fashion design students a chance to shine.

But you don't have to wear an evening gown to hear classical music, as demonstrated by the New York-based Remarkable Theater Brigade's Opera Shorts, which features on evening of 10-minute operas by a variety of composers. They had my favorite promotional graphic of the year, but then I'm easily amused!

On the downside, St. Louis lost its classical music radio station when KFUO was sold last March. (Happily, you can still listen online.) The musicians in the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have been on strike since last October, locked in a dispute with management over proposed pay cuts and workload increases. I'm particularly saddened by this, as I used to live a few blocks from their home in Detroit, and I enjoyed many wonderful performances there.

As much as I love going to the symphony, I'm also always happy to see classical music come out of the concert hall and into daily life. Backed by funding from the Knight Foundation, a group named Random Acts of Culture has been spreading some classical-themed fun in surprising ways, notably via a hallelujah chorus flash mob that delighted shoppers in a Philadelphia mall last October.

Every so often, classical music is declared dead or dying, but the genre typifies the old Mark Twain quote. Year after year, the classical world keeps on keepin' on, keepin' long-term, loyal audiences, and new fans alike, happy.

Tune in to the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards live from Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. For updates and breaking news, please visit The Recording Academy's social networks on Twitter and Facebook. 

 

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New Air Date & Location For 2022 GRAMMYs Show Announced: April 3 In Las Vegas

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The following is a statement from Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr.: 

I'm so pleased to let you know that the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards have been rescheduled and will now be broadcast live from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday, April 3 (8:00-11:30 PM, live ET/5:00-8:30 PM, live PT) on the CBS Television Network and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Trevor Noah, the Emmy Award-winning host of "The Daily Show," will return as master of ceremonies for Music's Biggest Night. 

Additional details about the dates and locations of other official GRAMMY Week events, including the GRAMMY Awards Premiere Ceremony, MusiCares' Person of the Year, and the Pre-GRAMMY Gala, will be announced soon. 

We are excited to take the GRAMMYs to Las Vegas for the very first time, and to put on a world-class show. From the moment we announced the postponement of the original show date, we have been inundated with heartfelt messages of support and solidarity from the artist community. We are humbled by their generosity and grateful for their unwavering commitment to the GRAMMY Awards and the Academy's mission. We appreciate the leadership CBS and our production partners at Fulwell 73 have shown during these challenging weeks and the flexibility of everyone who worked toward this solution. 

Onward, 
Harvey 

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Editor's Note: The 2022 GRAMMYs Awards show, officially known as the 64th GRAMMY Awards, has been rescheduled to Sunday, April 3, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The below article was updated on Tuesday, Jan. 18, to reflect the new show date and location.

The following is a Joint Statement from the Recording Academy and CBS:

“After careful consideration and analysis with city and state officials, health and safety experts, the artist community and our many partners, the Recording Academy and CBS have postponed the 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards Show. The health and safety of those in our music community, the live audience, and the hundreds of people who work tirelessly to produce our show remains our top priority. Given the uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant, holding the show on January 31st simply contains too many risks. We look forward to celebrating Music’s Biggest Night on a future date, which will be announced soon.” 

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