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GRAMMY's diverse classical-music CAT noms Laura Karpman | Langston Hughes - Ask Your Mama

Posted: December 8, 2015

The development in the classical-music GRAMMY's during the last several years has been the inclusion of more diverse corners of this vast field. For many, that is a good thing - better than having Georg Solti (still the all-time Grammys champ), Vladimir Horowitz or the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra dominate year after year, as in the past.

For 'classical compendium,' whose winners of the past two years (an all-Hindemith orchestral program and Harry Partch's "Plectra and Percussion Dances") don't seem like "mixtures of classical sub-genres." This year's contenders are "As Dreams Fall Apart: The Golden Age of Jewish Stage and Film Music (1925-1955)"; Laura Karpman and Langston Hughes' "Ask Your Mama"; Handel's "L'Allegro, Il Penseroso ed il Moderato"; more Paulus ("Three Places of Enlightenment," "Veil of Tears" and Grand Concerto), and Nadia Shpachenko's "Woman at the New Piano." How does one decide between these apples and oranges?

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