The 22nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 27,1980,at Shrine Auditorium,Los Angeles,and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1979. This year was notable for being the first year to have a designated category for Rock music.
The 16th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 2,1974,and were broadcast live on American television. They recognised accomplishments by musicians from the year 1973.
The 34th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 25,1992,recognizing accomplishments by musicians from the previous year (1991). Natalie Cole won the most awards (three),including Album of the Year. Paul Simon opened the show.
The 29th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 24,1987,at Shrine Auditorium,Los Angeles,California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.
The 30th Annual Grammy Awards were held March 2,1988,at Radio City Music Hall,New York City. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the previous year.
Charlene Keys,better known by the stage name Tweet,is an American singer-songwriter.
Joy Maureen Denalane is a German singer-songwriter,known for her mixture of soul,R&B,and African folk music with lyrics in German and English.
Gurre-Lieder is a tripartite oratorio followed by a melodramatic epilogue for five vocal soloists,narrator,three choruses,and grand orchestra. The work,which is based on an early song cycle for soprano,tenor and piano,was composed by the then-Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg from 1900 to 1903. Following a break,he resumed orchestration in 1910 and completed it in November 1911. It sets to music the poem cycle Gurresange by the Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen.
Live in Boston is a triple CD live album by American rock band the Doors released in 2007. It was recorded at the Boston Arena on April 10,1970,during the band's Roadhouse Blues Tour. The band performed two shows,one starting at 7 pm and a second scheduled for 10 but not actually starting until past midnight. Jim Morrison appears to be intoxicated during the entire latter show,and continued drinking heavily throughout the performance. The late start ended with the venue's owners cutting power to the stage to force the end of the concert.
One with Everything is a live album and concert video by the rock band Styx,which was recorded and professionally filmed in Cleveland,Ohio during their 2006 tour. The band played with the Contemporary Youth Orchestra,playing a set of 16 songs,including three songs from their 2005 studio album Big Bang Theory. Both an album and a DVD were released,with the Blu-ray Disc on April 29,2009. As with many of the live releases post-Dennis DeYoung,this album does not contain any Dennis DeYoung penned or sung songs.
Jun Märkl is a German conductor. He was chief conductor at the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The Dresden Soul Symphony is a German concert show. The musicians reinterpret soul hits and combine them with classical music. The musical ensemble contains the singers Joy Denalane,Bilal,Tweet and Dwele;the radio orchestra of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk;four backing vocalists;the MDR children's choir and four instrumentalists,who do not belong to the orchestra. The performance venue of the show is Dresden,Germany. The premiere was on April 26,2008.
The MDR-Sinfonieorchester is a German radio orchestra based in Leipzig. It is the radio orchestra of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk,the public broadcaster for the German states of Thuringia,Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. It is one of the oldest Radio orchestras in the world and the oldest in Germany. It was founded in Leipzig,Germany in 1923,with 115 musicians. Apart from a short interruption during World War II,it has been the main orchestra of the Central German Broadcasting Company (MDR) since 1924. The orchestra performs concerts in Leipzig at the Gewandhaus.
The 53rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 13,2011,at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. They were broadcast on CBS with a rating of 26.6 million viewers. Barbra Streisand was honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year two nights prior to the telecast on February 11. Nominations were announced on December 1,2010 and a total of 109 awards were presented. Most of the awards were presented during the pre-telecast,which took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center next to the Staples Center,where the main telecast took place. The eligibility period was October 1,2009 to September 30,2010.
Lora Aborn Busck was an American composer.
Soul Train:The Dance Years is a series of compilation albums released by Rhino Records in 1999 and 2000,and spun off from the long-running syndicated television series Soul Train.
The 2010 Soul Train Music Awards were held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center in Atlanta,Georgia on November 28,2010. The show was hosted by Oscar nominated actor Terrence Howard and Oscar nominated actress Taraji P. Henson. Performers included El DeBarge,R. Kelly,Erykah Badu,Ron Isley,Lalah Hathaway,Bilal,Cee Lo Green. Tributes were made to artists Ron Isley,and Anita Baker.
The 55th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 10,2013,at the Staples Center in Los Angeles honoring the best in music for the recording year beginning October 1,2011 through September 30,2012. The show was broadcast on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT and was hosted for the second time by LL Cool J. The "Pre-Telecast Ceremony" was streamed live from LA's Nokia Theater at the official Grammy website. Nominations were announced on December 5,2012,on prime-time television as part of "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live! –Countdown to Music's Biggest Night",a one-hour special co-hosted by LL Cool J &Taylor Swift and broadcast live on CBS from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville,Tennessee. Fun,Frank Ocean,Mumford &Sons,Jay-Z,Kanye West and Dan Auerbach received the most nominations with six each.
The Kyiv Symphony Orchestra is a Ukrainian symphony orchestra based in Kyiv,Ukraine. It has been conducted by Luigi Gaggero since 2018. The orchestra played music by Ukrainian composers on a tour to major concert halls in Poland and Germany,beginning in April 2022.
