RE: Speaking of the Grammy awards

[Lorin Sklamberg <lsklamberg...>]

Hi, Sylvia and List

I wish! We were only a preliminary entry - in one of the "folk" categories,
rather than world music, where, if we had been a finalist,  we would have
been competing with winner Ruben Blades - what with I think six Latin music
categories available. That's ok - the folk categories (all two of them) were
won by Doc Watson and Nickel Creek, the latter of whom are really a
bluegrass act, for which there's also a specific category.

I liked that Hairspray won for best Show Recording - apparently, the winner,
Mark Shaiman Shaiman, who wrote the show with his partner, Scott Wittman,
said in accepting his award, "For everyone out there who thinks Broadway is
nothing but Jews and gays, I have this to say: Oy gevalt; me and my lover
just won a Grammy!" My kind of guys (and the shows not bad, either).

Thanks for the salute, though.

FYI, our February concert at the Concertgebouw recital hall will be
broadcast on Dutch radio in the near future - I just heard the tape - not
too shabby.

Lorin Sklamberg

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> From:         Sylvia Schildt
> Reply To:     jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> Sent:         Saturday, February 22, 2003 4:53 PM
> To:   World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject:      Speaking of the Grammy awards
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Dear Listers,
> 
> Isn't Sunday Grammy time and didn't our guys (Sklamberg, London,
> Schwimmer?)
> get the nod for Zmiros Project?
> 
> What is the category and how will we know if they won?
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Sylvia Schildt
> 
> 
> on 2/22/03 4:15 PM, Ari Davidow at ari (at) ivritype(dot)com wrote:
> 
> > At 12:40 AM 2/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> >> B"H Münzinghof
> >> 
> >> Ari! Thanks for the hecksher to blow
> >> our own horns!
> >> 
> >> My new CD, The Art of Xylos, released in February of
> >> last year on the Arte Nova label (BMG) is now being
> >> considered in nomination for Germany´s Echo Prize.
> >> If selected, I´ll be on German television (ZDF) on
> >> October 26th. Parts of the CD were broadcast on
> >> Finnish radio yesterday. Of course, I´m proud
> >> of this - but does anyone else really care?
> >> WE´D like to know...
> > 
> > Hey, mazl tov!
> > 
> > ari
> > 
> > 
> > Ari Davidow
> > ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
> > list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> > the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
> > 
> > 
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