Nashville symphony wins grammy

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Close 1 of 2. Daily News File Photo. Gary Call Hanley. DN: How does winning a third consecutive Grammy feel? Is it different from the first two? Latest News. The buzz today around the classical. Subtitled "Deus Ex Machina," it's a five-movement piece inspired by the Superman comics and performed by the Nashville Symphony Orchestra.

The conductor is Giancarlo Guerrero, a former conductor of the Eugene Symphony. The London Times called it "a Symphonie fantastique" for our times. The complete list of classical winners:. Best Classical Album. Producer Of The Year, Classical. Best Orchestral Performance. Best Opera Recording. In addition to its classical and education programming, the Nashville Symphony performs and presents a wide variety of pop, jazz, country and family performances at the Schermerhorn and at Ascend Amphitheater.

The Nashville Symphony's beginnings can be traced to when World War II veteran and Nashville native Walter Sharp returned home intent on establishing a new symphony orchestra for Middle Tennessee.

With the assistance of a small number of fellow music lovers, he convinced community leaders of this need and the Nashville Symphony was founded. Sharp retained William Strickland, a young conductor from New York, to serve as the first music director and conductor. Strickland was responsible for setting the high-performance standards that the orchestra and its conductors have maintained to this day.

Guy Taylor , Willis Page , Thor Johnson and Michael Charry followed Strickland in the role of music director, with the orchestra performing at the historic War Memorial Auditorium in downtown Nashville until the opening of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center in From until his death in early , the Nashville Symphony flourished under the dynamic leadership of Music Director and Principal Conductor Kenneth Schermerhorn.

A noted conductor, composer and music educator, Maestro Schermerhorn led the ensemble to new levels of artistic achievement while nurturing the tradition of excellence that has characterized the symphony since its inception.

Under his leadership, the orchestra performed a critically acclaimed debut concert at Carnegie Hall and undertook a sold-out East Coast tour in , and it embarked on a fruitful partnership with the Naxos label that has, to date, yielded more than 20 critically acclaimed recordings.