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For a third time, Conspirare heads to the Grammy Awards
For a third time, Austin-based choir Conspirare is headed to the Grammy Awards.
That’s a remarkable feat: Conspirare is the only Austin classical music group to ever be singled out so repeatedly by the industry. And to boot, Conspirare is a non-profit organization that only started year-round programming in 1999 and has a current annual budget in the $1.3 million range. Their artistic achievements are nothing short of outstanding.
Conspirare is nominated in the Best Classical Crossover Album for ‘A Company Of Voices: Conspirare In Concert,’ recorded live at the Long Center for the Performing Arts and released on the Harmonia Mundi label.
Last year, the choir, founded and directed by Craig Hella Johnson, netted two Grammy noms for, “Threshold of Night,” also released on Harmonia Mundia. The nominations were for Best Classical Album and Best Choral Choral Performance. “Threshold of Night” featured a song cycle by award-winning young British composer Tarik O’Regan.
And in 2006, Conspirare received two Grammy nominations for the CD “Requiem,” in the categories of Best Choral Performance and Best Engineered Album, Classical.
The classical music categories aren’t part of Sunday’s prime time telecast. But earlier in the afternoon, can follow the results and see a live stream of the ‘other Grammy’s’ here www.grammy.com.
We’ll also be posting the results in this blog and its accompanying Twitter handle, artsinaustin.
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