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Cedille at the GRAMMYs
Cedille would like to congratulate Eighth Blackbird on their fourth consecutive GRAMMY for FILAMENT!
Eighth Blackbird were not the only Cedille artists at the GRAMMYs Monday night. New Budapest Orpheum Society and Ursula Oppens also attended as nominees. Cedille president, Jim Ginsburg was on hand as a fellow nominee. Check out some of his behind-the-scenes GRAMMY photos below.
From left to right:
(Top Row) Jim Ginsburg at the GRAMMY Nominee Reception showing off his nominee medal.
(Middle Row) Jim on the red carpet before the show and then at the GRAMMYs award ceremony.
(Bottom Row) Jim enjoying the after party.
Recommended
Cedille’s newest digital single, Mischa Zupko: Harpsichord Concerto is available to stream everywhere. Scored for harpsichord and string quartet, the concerto exhibits highly idiomatic harpsichord writing, brought brilliantly into the present by Zupko’s ingenious reshaping of older musical styles into a thoroughly modern expression.
From Chicago-based composter Stacy Garrop comes INVICTUS, Latin for “unconquered.” The work unfolds across four movements and an interlude, moving between lyrical introspection, fierce determination, and triumphant resolve, with Grammy-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian and the Chicago Philharmonic under the direction of Artistic Director Scott Speck. Available 5/8.
Haymarket Opera Company presents early-18th-century master Leonardo Vinci’s rare operatic gem, Artaserse (1730). A prominent figure of the Neapolitan School of opera, whose work influenced composers such as Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Vinci’s three-act opera seria centers on the Persian prince, Artaserse, who must bring his father’s murderer to justice amidst betrayal, deceit, and mistaken identity.
In celebration of the June 12 digital single release of Mischa Zupko:Harpsichord Concerto, this month’s playlist features that very instrument and its many personalities. There’s delicacy in Lully’s Passacaille contrasted by Soler’s muscular Keyboard Sonata No. 81 in G Minor. Appearing both accompanied and unaccompanied, the harpsichord takes center stage this month.
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