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 recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1973.
The Symphony No. 3 in D minor by Gustav Mahler was written in sketch beginning in 1893,composed primarily in 1895,and took final form in 1896. Consisting of six movements,it is Mahler's longest composition and is the longest symphony in the standard repertoire,with a typical performance lasting around 95 to 110 minutes. It was voted one of the ten greatest symphonies of all time in a survey of conductors carried out by the BBC Music Magazine.
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.
Charlene Keys,better known by the stage name Tweet,is an American singer-songwriter.
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia,Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Established in January 1991,its headquarters are in Leipzig,with regional studios in Dresden,Erfurt and Magdeburg. MDR is a member of the ARD consortium of public broadcasters in Germany.
Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev was a prominent Soviet composer of Armenian descent. He headed the Composers' Guild of the Soviet Cinematographers' Union from its inception and is most famous for his movie scores,primarily the score to Seventeen Moments of Spring.
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 large cantata for five vocal soloists,narrator,chorus and large orchestra,composed by Arnold Schoenberg,on poems by the Danish novelist Jens Peter Jacobsen. The title means "songs of Gurre",referring to Gurre Castle in Denmark,scene of the medieval love-tragedy revolving around the Danish national legend of the love of the Danish king Valdemar Atterdag for his mistress Tove,and her subsequent murder by Valdemar's jealous wife Queen Helvig.
Mike City is an American singer,songwriter and record producer. He is best known for producing the singles "I Wish" for Carl Thomas,"Heard It All Before" for Sunshine Anderson,"Full Moon" for Brandy and "One Woman Man" for Dave Hollister.
Jun Märkl is a German conductor.
The Orchestre National de Lyon (ONL) is a French orchestra based in Lyon. Its primary concert venue is l'Auditorium de Lyon. The orchestra operates with the help of a subsidy from the French Ministry of Culture and from the Rhône-Alpes regional council. The current general director of the orchestra is Aline Sam-Giao.
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. 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.
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. 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.
