BOSTON (AP) – The Grammys weren’t just about Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is rhapsodizing over its win for best orchestral performance. The orchestra also has a partial claim to the Grammy for best opera recording, which involved former conductor Seiji Ozawa.
The BSO and musical director Andris Nelsons won the orchestral performance prize for “Shostakovich Under Stalin’s Shadow” – music that sprang from the terror and turbulence of Joseph Stalin’s Soviet dictatorship.
It was the orchestra’s first recording in a new partnership with the Deutsche Grammophon label, and its seventh Grammy overall.
Nelsons called Monday’s win “an extraordinary honor.” The Latvia-born maestro said he hopes it will bring new attention to classical music – and new fans of the genre.