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This is truly the grand-daddy of all awards shows. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences recognizes outstanding musical achievements. The Grammys always prove to be a night of spectacle and performance that truly can't be missed.


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The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album Cover (other Than Classical)

Best Album Notes

Best Album Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    Benjamin Britten conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Vishnevskaya, Pears, Fischer-Dieskau); David Willocks directing the Bach Choir; Edward Chapman directing the Highgate School Choir     War Requiem
  • Skitch Henderson conducting the RCA Symphonic Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Price, Warfield) Great Scenes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
  • George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Debussy: La Mer; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
  • Erich Leinsdorf conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Price, Tucker, Elias) Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  • Horowitz The Sound of Horowitz (works of Schumann, Scarlatti, Schubert, Scriabin)

Best Background Arrangement

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Julian Bream Consort     An Evening of Elizabethan Music
  • Members of Budapest String Quartet with Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Julius Levine Schubert: Quintet in A Major for Piano and Strings, Op. 114 (Trout)
  • London Wind Soloists Mozart: Wind Music, Vols. 1-5
  • Zino Francescatti, violinist; Robert Casadesus, pianist Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Nos. 3, 4 and 5)
  • Juilliard String Quartet Beethoven: Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95; Quartet No. 16 in F Major, Op. 135
  • Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale (with vocalists) Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes; Schumann: Spanische Liebeslieder

Best Classical Composition By A Contemporary Composer

  • Winner:
    Benjamin Britten     War Requiem
  • William Schuman Symphony No. 8
  • Dmitri Shostakovich Symphony No. 4, Op. 43
  • Heitor Villa-Lobos Concerto No. 2 for Cello and Orchestra
  • John LaMontaine Concerto for Piano
  • Samuel Barber Andromache's Farewell Op. 39

Best Classical Performance - Choral

  • Winner:
    David Willcocks directing the Bach Choir; Edward Chapman directing the Highgate School Choir; Benjamin Britten conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus     Britten: War Requeim
  • Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra Robert Shaw Chorale on Tour (Ives, Schoenberg, Mozart, Ravel)
  • Igor Stravinsky conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of Washington Opera Society Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
  • Hugh Ross directing Schola Cantorum of New York; Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Milhaud: Les Choephores
  • David Willcocks conducting the Choir of King's College and London Symphony Haydn: Nelson Mass (Mass No. 9 in D Minor, Missa Solemnis)
  • Richard Condie directing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Brahms: A German Requiem
  • Abraham Kaplan directing the Collegiate Chorale; Stuart Gardner directing the Boys' Choir, Church of Transfiguration; Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist Or Duo Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz     The Sound of Horowitz (works of Schumann, Scarlatti, Schubert, Scriabin)
  • Artur Rubinstein Schumann: Carnaval Fantasiestuke
  • Andres Segovia Granada (Albeniz: Granada; Granados: Spanish Dance in E Minor; Ponce, Tansman, Aguado; 8 Lessons for
  • Rudolf Serkin Beethoven: 3 Favorite Sonatas (Sonatas No. 8 (Pathetique); No. 14 (Moonlight); No. 23 (Appassionata)
  • Glenn Gould Bach: The 6 Partitas

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Artur Rubinstein (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony)     Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor for Piano and Orchestra
  • Lorin Hollander (Leinsdorft conducting the Boston Symphony) Ravel: Concerto in G for Piano and Orchestra; Dello Joio: Fantasy and Variations for Piano and Orche
  • Vladimir Ashkenazy (Fistoulari conducting the London Symphony) Rachmaninov: Concerto No. 3 in D Minor for Piano
  • Andre Watts (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic) Liszt: Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
  • Jascha Heifetz (Sargent conducting the New Symphony Orchestra of London) Bruch: Concerto No. 1 in G Minor for Violin, Op. 26; Mozart: Concerto No. 4 in D Major for Violin, K
  • David Oistrakh (Hindemith conducting the London Symphony) Hindemith: Concerto for Violin
  • Rudolf Serkin (Szell conducting the Columbia Symphony) Bartok: Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphonic Orchestra     Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
  • Arturo Toscanini conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major (The Great)
  • George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies (Complete)
  • Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 (Pastorale)
  • Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Mahler: Symphony No.l 1 in D Major (The Titan)

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

  • Winner:
    Leontyne Price     Great Scenes from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
  • Jennie Tourel (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic) Ravel: Sheherazade; Berlioz: Cleopatre (Scene Lyrique)
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Moore, pianist) Schubert: Schwanengesang
  • Shirley Verrett (Stravinsky conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Washington Opera Society) Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
  • Victoria de los Angeles (Pretre conducting the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra) Melodies de France (Ravel, Dubussy, Duparc)
  • Maureen Forrester (Prohaska conducting the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna Festival) Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
  • Netania Davrath (orchestra conducted by Pierre de la Roche) Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne, Vol. 2
  • Joan Sutherland (Bonynge conducting the London Symphony) Command Performance
  • Anna Moffo (Ferrara conducting the RCA Italiana Symphonic Orchestra) A Verdi CollaboratioN

Best Comedy Performance

Best Documentary, Spoken Word Or Drama Recording (other Than Comedy)

  • Winner:
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?     Edward Albee, playwright (original cast with Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard, Melinda Dillon
  • John F. Kennedy The Presidential Years - Norman Weiser, producer (David Teig, narrator)
  • The Badmen Goddard Leiberson, producer (Pete Seeger and others)
  • Strange Interlude Eugene O'Neill, playwright (original Broadway cast with Betty Field, Jane Fonda, Ben Gazzara, Pat Hi
  • Brecht on Brecht Bertolt Brecht, playwright (original cast with Dane Clark, Anne Jackson, Lotte Lenya, Viveca Lindfor
  • We Shall Overcome (The March on Washington, August 28, 1963) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (with Joan Baez, Marian Anderson, Odetta, Rabbi Joachim Prinz, Bob Dylan,

Best Engineered Recording (other Than Classical)

Best Engineered Recording - Special Or Novel Effects

  • Winner:
    Frederick Fennell     Civil War, Vol. 2
  • Lou Monte Pepino's Friend Pasquale
  • Dean Elliott Zounds! What Sounds
  • Dean Elliott Heartstrings
  • Shut Downs Four in the Floor
  • Bill McFadden, Bryna Rayburn Fast, Fast, Fast, Relief from TV Commercials
  • Hank Thompson Cheyenne Frontier Days

Best Folk Recording

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording, Musical

  • Winner:
    Soeur Sourire (Singing Nun)     Dominique
  • Mahalia Jackson Make a Joyful Noise
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford, Roger Wagner Chorale The Story of Christmas
  • The Limeliters Makin' a Joyful Noise
  • Kings of Harmony Steppin' Right In
  • Charles Magnuson Piano in Concert
  • George Beverly Shea The Earth Is the Lord's (and the Fullness Thereof)
  • Bessie Griffin and the Gospel Pearls Recorded Live!

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance By A Large Group

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance By A Soloist Or Small Group

Best Instrumental Theme

  • Winner:
    Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero, Norman Newell     More (Theme from Mondo Cane)
  • Ray Brown, Steven Allen Gravy Waltz
  • Maurice Jarre Lawrence of Arabia
  • Jean Toots Theilmans Bluesette
  • Bob Goldstein, David Shire Washington Square

Best Intstrumental Arrangement

Best Jazz Composition

  • Winner:
    Ray Brown, Steven Allen     Gravy Waltz
  • Paul Desmond Take Ten
  • Newton Mendonco, Antonio Carlos Jobim Meditation
  • Dick Grove, Pete Jolly, Tommy Wolf Little Bird
  • Charlie Mingus Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
  • Kenyon Hopkins East Side-West Side

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Erich Leinsdorf conducting the RCA Italiana Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Price, Tucker, Elias)     Puccini: Madama Butterfly
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Price, di Stefano, Taddei) Puccini: Tosca
  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Nilsson, Windgassen, Hotter, Stolze, Hoffgen, Neidlinger, Sutherland) Wagner: Siegfried
  • Eugen Jochum conducting the RIAS Chamber Chorus, Berlin Philharmonic (solos: Seefried, Merriman, Koth, Haefliger, Prey, Fischer-Dieskau) Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte
  • Andre Cluytens conducting the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra and Chorus of National Opera of Sofia (soloist: Christoff) Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
  • Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra (solos: Elias, Hines) Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Show

  • Winner:
    John Addison
  • Riz Ortolani, Nino Oliviero
  • Maurice Jarre
  • Alex North

Best Performance By A Chorus

  • Winner: Swingle Singers Bach's Greatest Hits
  • Robert Shaw Chorale (Robert Shaw conducting the RCA Orchestra) The Many Moods for Christmas
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Richard P. Condie, director; Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic) The Joy of Christmas
  • New Christy Minstrels Green, Green
  • Henry Mancini & His Orchestra with Chorus Charade

Best Performance By An Orchestra For Dancing

Best Performance By An Orchestra Or Instrumentalist With Orchestra (not Jazz Or Dancing)

Best Recording For Children

Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album

  • Winner:
    Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick (original cast with Barbara Cook, Daniel Massey, Jack Cassidy)     She Loves Me
  • Lee Pockriss, Anne Cromwell (original cast with Vivien Leigh, Jean-Pierre Aumont) Tovarich
  • Harvey Schmidt, Tom Jones (original cast with Robert Horton, Inga Swenson, Stephen Douglass, Will Peer, Steve Roland, Scooter Teague, Lesley Warren; orchestra conducted by Donald W. Pippin) 110 in the Shade
  • Arthur Schwartz, Howard Deitz (original cast with Mary Martin, Ethel Shutta, George Wallace, Jack DeLon, Robbin Bailey) Jennie

Country And Western Recording

Female Vocal Performance

Male Vocal Performance

Most Promising New Classical Artist

  • Winner:
    Andre Watts, pianist
  • John Ogdon, pianist
  • Abbey Singers, vocalists
  • Alirio Diaz, guitarist
  • Fou Ts'Ong, pianist
  • Colin Davis, conductor

New Artist

Record Of The Year

Rhythm & Blues Recording

Rock And Roll Recording

Song Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini     The Days of Wine and Roses
  • Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen Call Me Irresponsible
  • Sadie Vimmerstedt, Johnny Mercer I Wanna Be Around
  • Sacha Distel, Jack Reardon The Good Life
  • Burt Bacharach, Hal David Wives and Lovers

Vocal Group Performance

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