The 51st Grammy Awards were held tonight, and Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s Raising Sand, Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida” and CSO Resound all came away with multiple honors. The Chicago Symphony pulled down Best Orchestral Performance for Shostakovich 4 led by Bernard Haitink. (As Anastasia Tsioulcas predicted.) Traditions & Transformations, our project with the Silk Road Ensemble and Yo-Yo Ma, won for Best Engineered Album, and kudos to Christopher Willis, our indefatigable engineer. Willis’s excellent work can be heard each week, by the way, on the CSO’s radio broadcast series. T&T‘s producer, David Frost, also won Producer of the Year in the Classical category. Recordings by the CSO have won 60 Grammys from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
The multiple honors to the CSO and to Coldplay are not so very surprising, when you think about it. They have their Chris Martin, who makes visually creative videos with violins and timpani and gongs:
and we have ours, who makes visually creative videos with violins and timpani and gongs:
Brevard Music Center Orchestra, Brevard, North Carolina
I’m pretty sure that the first Chris Martin is the only one who will admit to being concerned with feeling “the fear in my enemy’s eyes,” though. Girl.