Re: Speaking of the Grammy awards

[Sylvia Schildt <creativa...>]

Lorin,


Onward & upward.


Sylvia



on 2/24/03 9:32 AM, Lorin Sklamberg at lsklamberg (at) yivo(dot)cjh(dot)org 
wrote:

> 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
> 
>> ----------
>> 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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