In Arts Notes: Arts at the River returns to Yorktown on Sunday; Williamsburg Players offer a showcase with a theme based on a quote from Anne Frank; and the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra will offer a YouTube available performance of an upcoming recording and plans to continue search for a music director in the fall.
UW–Madison music student wins classical Grammy Award channel3000.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from channel3000.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
After her third win at Grammy Awards for Best Rap Song on Sunday, she tied with Alison Krauss for the most gongs for a singer or female artist, but her award for Best R&B Performance put her one better.
Hitmaker Jimmy Jam made the announcement as he presented the award to Beyonce, stating, “History has just been made. Breaking the all-time record for the most Grammy wins ever by any female artist or any singer, male or female, the Grammy goes to Beyonce.”
The stunned star took the mic at the Grammy and said, “As an artist, I believe it’s my job – and all of our jobs- to reflect the times. It’s been such a difficult time, so I wanted to uplift, encourage and celebrate all of the beautiful black queens and kings that continue to inspire me and inspire the whole world.
A Complete List Of 2021 Grammy Winners (And The Women Who Set New Records) idolator.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from idolator.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.