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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.

Host: Andy Williams
Date: March 15, 1971
City: Los Angeles

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Album Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    Colin Davis conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Vickers, Veasey, Lindholm)     Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Ives: Three Places in New England; Ruggles: Sun Treader
  • George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (solos: Oistrakh, Rostropovich) Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello)
  • Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony (R. Page directing the Male Chorus of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia; solo: Krause) Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (solos: Oistrakh, Anda, Kempf, Goossens, Leitner) Beethoven Edition 1970

Best Album Cover

Best Album Notes

Best Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Gregg Smith conducting the Gregg Smith Singers and Columbia Chamber Ensemble     New Music of Charles Ives
  • Gregg Smith conducting the Ithaca College Concert Choir; Robert Craft conducting the Columbia Symphony The New Stravinsky
  • David Willcocks conducting the Bach Choir and New Philharmonia Vaughan Williams: Five Tudor Portraits
  • Robert E. Page directing the Male Chorus of the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13
  • Lorna Cooke de Varon directing the New England Conservatory Chorus; Katherine Edmonds Pusztai conduting the Children's Chours of the New England Conservatory; Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orff: Carmina Burana
  • Arthur Oldham conducting the London Symphony Orchestra Chorus; Pierre Boulez conducting the London Symphony Mahler: Das Klagende Lied
  • Reinhold Schmid, Helmut Froschauer conducting the Vienna Singverein; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Haydn: The Creation

Best Classical Performance - Chamber Music

  • Winner:
    Eugene Istomin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose     Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios
  • Boston Symphony Chamber Players Schubert: Trio No. 1 in B Flat Major; Milhaud: Pastorale for Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon; Hindemith:
  • Benjamin Britten conducting the English Chamber Orchestra and Ambrosian Singers Salute to Percy Grainger
  • Sviatoslav Richter, David Oistrakh Franck: Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano; Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor
  • Guarneri Quartet Beethoven: The 5 Late Quartets
  • Gunther Schuller Ives: Calcium Light Night

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Or Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra)     Brahms: Double Concerto (Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello)
  • Van Cliburn (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony) Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in E Minor for Piano
  • Vladimir Horowitz Schumann: Kreisleriana
  • Walter Carlos The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
  • Mstislav Rostropovich (Britten, conductor) Britten: Suites for Cello (2)
  • David Oistrakh (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) Brahsm: Concerto in D Major for Violin
  • Alexis Weissenberg (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony) Bartok: Concerto No. 2 for Piano
  • Ivan Moravec Beethoven: Sonatas No. 26, Op. 81a (Les Adieux), and No. 15, Op. 28 (Pastoral)
  • Glenn Gould Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Nos. 9-16

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Pierre Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra     Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
  • Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)
  • Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A Minor
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Ives: Three Places in New England; Ruggles: Sun Treader
  • George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G Major
  • Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Chicago Symphony Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette
  • George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor
  • Seiji Ozawa conducting the Chicago Symphony Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist

  • Winner:
    Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Gerald Moore, accompanist)     Schubert: Lieder
  • Beverly Sills (Ceccato conducting the London Philharmonic) Mozart and Strauss Arias
  • Marilyn Horn (Lewis, conductor) Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder
  • Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry (Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic) Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn
  • Janet Backer (Gibson conducting the London Symphony) Death of Cleopatra final scenes, Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • Leontyne Price (Downes conducting the London Symphony) - Prima Donna, Vol. 3

Best Comedy Recording

  • Winner:
    Flip Wilson     The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress
  • Orson Welles The Begatting of the President
  • Homer & Jethro Daddy Played First Base
  • Bill Cosby Live at Madison Square Garden
  • David Frye I Am the President

Best Contemporary Instrumental Performance

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

  • Winner:
    Chet Atkins, Jerry Reed     Me and Jerry
  • Danny Davis & the Nashville Brass You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet
  • Chet Atkins Yestergroovin
  • Merle Haggard & the Stranger Street Singer
  • Jerry Smith Drivin' Home

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Recording

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Winner:
    Boulez conducting the Cleveland Orchestra     Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps
  • Walter Carlos The Well-Tempered Synthesizer
  • Stokowski conducting the Chicago Symphony Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6 and Age of Gold
  • Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13
  • Thomas conducting the Boston Symphony Ives: Three Places in New England; Ruggles: Sun Treader
  • Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Crespin, Minton R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
  • Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Cello Brahms: Double Concerto

Best Ethnic Or Traditional Recording

Best Gospel Performance

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group

Best Jazz Performance - Small Group Or Soloist With Small Group

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Colin Davis conducting the Royal Opera House Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Vickers, Veasey, Lindholm)     Berlioz: Les Troyens
  • Zubin Mehta conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Amobrosian Opera Chorus (solos: Price, Domingo, Milnes, Cossotto) Verdi: Il Travatore
  • Pierre Boulez conducting the Orchestra of Royal Opera House (solos: McIntyre, Shirley, Soederstroem, David, Ward) Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic, Deutsche Opera Chorus (solos: Brilioth, Stewart, Keleman, Dernesch, Janowitz, Ludwig, Chookasian) Wagner: Gotterdammerung
  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Crespin, Minton, Donath, Jungwirth) R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Special

  • Winner:
    John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr     Let It Be
  • Johnny Mercer, Henry Mancini Darling Lili
  • Johnny Mandel M*A*S*H
  • Alfred Newman Airport
  • Fred Karlin The Sterile Cuckoo

Best Recording For Children

  • Winner:
    Children's Television Workshop     Sesame Street (Sesame Street TV cast)
  • Loretta Long Susan Sings Songs from Sesame Street
  • Jim Henson Rubber Duckie

Best Rhythm & Blues Performance - Duo Or Group (vocal Or Instrumental)

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Winner:
    Ronald Dunbar, General Johnson     Patches
  • Thom Bell, William Hart Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)
  • Stevie Wonder, Lee Garrett, Syreeta Wright, Lulu Hardaway Signed, Sealed, Delivered
  • Russell Lewis, Herman Davis Groovy Situation
  • Greg Perry, General Johnson, Angelo Bond Somebody's Been Sleeping in My Bed

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Sacred Performance - Musical

  • Winner:
    Jake Hess     Everything Is Beautiful
  • George Beverly Shea There Is More to Life
  • Ralph Carmichael Orchestra and Chorus The Centurion
  • Pat Boone Rapture
  • Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Richard Condie conducting God of Our Fathers

Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album

Best Soul Gospel Performance

  • Winner:
    Edwin Hawkins Singers     Every Man Wants to Be Free
  • Jessy Dixon Hello Sunshine
  • Myrna Summers God Gave Me a Song
  • James Cleveland Amazing Grace
  • Andrae Crouch Christian People

Best Spoken Word Recording

  • Winner:
    Martin Luther King Jr.     Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
  • Jesse Pearson The Soft Sea
  • Everett Dirksen Everett Dirksen's America
  • Bill Cosby Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
  • Ambrose, Dryden, Hecht, Molloy, Seeger Poems and Ballads from 100-Plus American Poets
  • Apollo 8, 11, 12 astronauts, Presidents Kennedy and Nixon In the Beginning

Contemporary Female Vocalist

Contemporary Male Vocalist

Contemporary Song

Contemporary Vocal Group

New Artist

Record Of The Year

Song Of The Year

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    Paul Weston
  • Winner:
    Chris Albertson, John Hammond, Larry Hiller
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