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The world premiere recording of composer Dame Ethel Smyth’s 1930 masterwork,
The Prison, released on Chandos Records, has won the Grammy® Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. The recording is conducted by James Blachly with his Experiential Orchestra and Chorus, featuring soprano Sarah Brailey and bass-baritone Dashon Burton as soloists. The producer is Blanton Alspaugh and Soundmirror. Appropriately given Smyth’s role in the Suffragette movement in England, the August 2020 release date coincided with the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave women the right to vote in the United States. This is the first-ever GRAMMY Award for music by the English composer, who lived from 1858-1944, and struggled her entire career to have her music judged on its merits rather than on the basis of her gender.
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Exclusive Interview: Sarah Brailey, Grammy-Winning WORT Host
The
The Prison, a choral symphony by
Dame Ethel Smyth that features soprano
Sarah Brailey along with bass-baritone
Dashon Burton and
Musica Antiqua, but she is involved in several other Madison-area groups as well: Just Bach
Alan Muirhead, another co-host of Musica Antiqua.
How did you get involved with the project to record The Prison?
I met James (conductor/composer James Blachly) about five years ago when I sang one of his songs on a concert at a Trinity Wall Street music festival. As you know, the community of classical performers is quite small so we knew of each other, but this was the first time working together and we both enjoyed it immediately. He told me then that he was working on this project and had already involved Dashon Burton, who was a friend of mine, and he said that he’d like me to sing the soprano part. After lots of fundraising, we were able to record it in February 2019 at SUNY-Purcha