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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: Garry Shandling
Date: February 23, 1993
City: Los Angeles

This Year's Performers

The Nominees

Album Of The Year

Best Album For Children

  • Winner:
    film soundtrack, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman     Beauty and the Beast
  • Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Nora Guthrie, Frank Fuchs Woody's Grow Big Songs 1 and 2
  • Pete Seeger Pete Seeger's Family Concert
  • John Boylan, Janice Karman, Ross Baggdasarian Chipmunks in Low Places
  • J. Aaron Brown, David R. Lehman, Barbara Bailey Hutchinson Snuggle Up - A Gift of Songs for Sweet Dreams

Best Album Notes

Best Album Package

Best Alternative Music Album

Best Arrangement On An Instrumental

  • Winner:
    Rob McConnell & the Boss Brass     Strike Up the Band
  • University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band Values
  • Arturo Sandoval Cherokee
  • Either/Orchestra Bennie Moten's Weird Nightmare
  • GRP All-Star Big Band Airegin

Best Bluegrass Album

Best Chamber Music Performance

  • Winner:
    Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emanuel Ax, piano     Brahms: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
  • Carmina Quartet Szymanowski: String Quartets No. 1, Op. 37, and No. 2, Op. 56; Webern: Langsamer Satz for String Qua
  • Rudolf Firkusny, piano; Ridge String Quartet Dvorak: Piano Quintets, Opp. 81 and 5
  • Tokyo String Quartet Beethoven: The Late String Quartets (Opp. 127, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135)
  • Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, violins; Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon Robinson, cellos; Jaime Laredo, Michael Tree, violas Brahms: Sextets, Opp. 18 and 36; Theme and Variations

Best Choral Performance

  • Winner:
    Herbert Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Girls'/Boys' Chorus and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra     Orff: Carmina Burana
  • Riccardo Chailly conducting the Stadtischer Musikverein Dusseldorf and Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin Mahler: Das Klagende Lied
  • Michael Tilson Thomas conducting the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra; Malcolm Hicks, chorus master Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
  • John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists Haydn: The Seasons
  • Martin Pearlman conducting the Boston Baroque Chorus and Orchestra Handel: Messiah

Best Classical Album

  • Winner:
    Leonard Bernstein conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra     Mahler: Symphony No. 9
  • Nicholas Harnoncourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Beethoven: Symphonies (Complete)
  • Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic; Domingo, Varady, van Dam, Behrens, Runkel, principal soloists R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
  • David Zinman conducting the London Sinfonietta (Dawn Upshaw) Gorecki: Symphony No. 3
  • Cecilia Bartoli, soprano; Ion Marin conducting the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro la Fenice Cecilia Bartoli: Rossini Heroines

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Yo-Yo Ma, cello (Lorin Maazel conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)     Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante; Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme
  • Horacio Gutierrez, piano (Lorin Maazel conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3
  • Geoffrey Tozer, piano Neeme Jarvi conducting the London Philharmonic - Medtner: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3
  • Alicia de Larrocha, piano (Colin Davis conducting the English Chamber Orchestra) Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 23 and 24
  • Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin (Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra) Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2; Moret: En Reve

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz, piano     Horowitz - Discovered Treasures (Chopin, Clementi, Liszt, Scarlatti, Scriabin)
  • Keith Jarrett, piano Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op. 87
  • Yevgeny Kissin, piano Schubert: Fantasie in C and 4 Lieder; Brahms: Fantasien, Op. 116; Liszt: Ungarishe
  • Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano Ravel: L'Oeuvre pour Piano Seul (Complete Works for Solo Piano)
  • Emanuel Ax, piano Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op. 24; 6 Piano Pieces, Op. 118; 2 Rhapsodies, Op

Best Classical Vocal Performance

  • Winner:
    Kathleen Battle, soprano (Margo Garett, accompanist)     Kathleen Battle at Carnegie Hall (Handel, Mozart, Liszt, Strauss, Charpentier)
  • Arleen Auger, soprano (Irwin Gage, accompanist) Wolf: Songs to the Poetry of Goethe and Morike
  • Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano (Martin Katz, accompanist) Marilyn Horne: Rossini Recital
  • Cecilia Bartoli, soprano (Ion Marin conducting the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro le Fenice) Cecilia Bartoli: Rossini Heroines
  • Thomas Hampson, baritone (Charles Mackerras conducting the Welsh National Opera Orchestra and Chorus) Delius: Sea Drift

Best Comedy Album

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Best Contemporary Composition

  • Winner:
    Samuel Barber     The Lovers
  • Witold Lutoslawski Piano Concerto
  • John Tavener The Protecting Veil
  • Ellen Taaffe Zeilich Flute Concerto
  • Anthony Davis X, the Life and Times of Malcolm X

Best Contemporary Folk Album

Best Contemporary Jazz Performance - Instrumental

Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album

Best Country & Western Instrumental Performance

Best Country & Western Song

  • Winner:
    Vicne Gill, John Barlow Jarvis     I Still Believe in You
  • The Greatest Man I Never Knew Richard Leigh, Layng Martine Jr.
  • Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Don Schlitz I Feel Lucky
  • Don Von Tress Achy Breaky Heart
  • Dave Loggins She Is His Only Need

Best Country & Western Vocal Collaboration

  • Winner:
    Travis Tritt, Marty Stuart     The Whiskey Ain't Workin'
  • Chris LeDoux, Garth Brooks Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy
  • Tanya Tucker, Delbert McClinton Tell Me About It
  • Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Joe Diffie Not Too Much to Ask
  • Chieftains, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Killybegs

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Engineered Album

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Winner:
    Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic; solos: Domingo, Varady, van Dam, Behrens     R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
  • Yoel Levi conducting the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella Suite
  • Herbert Blomstedt conducting the San Francisco Chorus, San Francisco Symphony Chorus and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Orff: Carmina Burana
  • Gerard Schwarz conducting the Seattle Symphony; Carol Rosenberger, piano Hanson: Mosaics; Piano Concerto in G; Symphonies Nos. 5 and 7
  • Andrew Schenck conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Barber: The Lovers; Prayers of Kierkegaard
  • Malcolm Arnold conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra Arnold: A Sussex Overture: Beckus the Dandipratt; The Smoke; The Fair Field

Best Hard Rock Vocal Performance

Best Historical Album

Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)

Best Instrumental Composition

Best Instrumental Composition Written For A Motion Picture Or Television

Best Jazz Instrumental Performance - Individual Or Group

  • Winner:
    Branford Marsalis     I Heard You Twice
  • Joe Henderson Lush Life
  • Arturo Sandoval I Remember Clifford
  • Eddie Daniels, Gary Burton Benny Rides Again
  • Charlie Haden Quartet West Haunted Heart

Best Jazz Instrumental Solo

Best Jazz Vocal Performance

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance

  • Winner:
    McCoy Tyner Big Band     The Turning Point
  • Benny Carter Big Band, Rutgers University Orchestra Harlem Renaissance
  • GRP All-Star Big Band GRP All-Star Big Band
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra Carnegie Hall Concert
  • Rob McConnel, Boss Brass Brassy and Sassy

Best Latin Pop Album

Best Metal Vocal Performance

Best Mexican-american Album

Best Music Video - Long Form

Best Music Video - Short Form

Best Musical Show Album

Best New Age Album

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Georg Solti conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Domino, Varady, van Dam, Behrens, Runkel, Jo)     R. Strauss: Die Frau Ohne Schatten
  • Simon Rattle conducting the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (solos: Howell, Watson, Tear, Allen, Montague) Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen
  • Seiji Ozawa conducting the Boston Symphony Orchestra (solos: Freni, Atlantov, Hvorostovsky, Forrester, Leiferkus, Ciesinski) Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (The Queen of Spades)
  • Rene Jacobs conducting the Concerto Koln (solos: Larmore, Schlick, Fink, Rorholm, Ragin, Zanasi, Visse, Lallouette) Handel: Giulio Cesare
  • James Levine conducting the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (solos: Goldberg, Zednik, Morris, Behrens, Svenden, Wlaschiha, Moll, Battle) Wagner: Siegfried

Best Orchestral Performance

  • Winner:
    Leonard Bernstein conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra     Mahler: Symphony No. 9
  • Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra W. Schuman: Symphony No. 10; New England Triptych; American Festival Overture
  • Myung-Whun Chung conducting the Orchestre de L'Opera Bastille Messiaen: Turangalila Symphonie
  • Nicholas Hanoncourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe Beethoven: Symphonies (Complete)
  • David Zinman conducting the London Sinfonietta (Dawn Upshaw) Gorecki: Symphony No. 3

Best Polka Album

  • Winner:
    Walter Ostanek     35th Anniversay
  • Lenny Gomulka & the Chicago Push Where Were You Back Then?
  • Jimmy Sturr Sturr-It-Up
  • Eddie Blazoncyzk's Versatones All American Country Flavored Polkas
  • Dick Tady Orchestra Happy Polka Days

Best Pop Gospel Album

Best Pop Instrumental Performance

  • Winner:
    Richard Kaufman conducting the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra     Beauty and the Beast
  • Bruce Hornsby, Branford Marsalis Twenty-Nine to Five
  • Chieftains with Chet Atkins Tahitian Skies
  • John Williams Hook
  • Bob James, Earl Klugh Cool

Best Rap Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rap Performance - Solo

Best Reggae Album

Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance

Best Rhythm & Blues Song

  • Winner:
    L.A. Ried, Babyface, Daryl Simmons     The End of the Road
  • Thomas McElroy, Denzil Foster My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
  • Michael Jackson, Rene Moore, Bruce Swedien, Teddy Riley Jam
  • Dallas Austin, Lisa Left Eye Lopes Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg
  • Hal Davis, Berry Gordy, Willie Hutch, Bob West I'll Be There

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Duo Or Group

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female

Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Male

Best Rock Instrumental Performance

Best Rock/contemporary Gospel Album

Best Song Written Specifically For A Motion Picture Or Television

Best Southern Gospel Album

  • Winner:
    Bruce Carroll     Sometimes Miracles Hide
  • Speers 70th Anniversay Celebration
  • Jeff Easter, Sheri Easter Pickin' the Best ...Live
  • Florida Boys Live
  • Cathedrals Camp Meeting Live

Best Spoken Word Or Nonmusical Album

  • Winner:
    Earvin Magic Johnson, Robert O'Keefe     What Can You Do to Avoid AIDS
  • Patrick Stewart A Christmas Carol
  • Orson Welles This Is Orson Welles
  • Garrison Keillor Stories
  • Fannie Flagg Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
  • Ken Nordine Devout Catalyst

Best Traditional Blues Album

Best Traditional Folk Album

Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album

  • Winner:
    Shirley Ceasar     He's Working It Out for You
  • Mom Winans, Pop Winans For the Rest of My Life
  • Gospel Hummingbirds Steppin' Out
  • Fairfield Four Standing in the Safety Zone
  • Albertina Walker Live

Best Tropical Latin Album

Best World Music Album

Classical Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Michael Fine
  • Thomas Frost
  • Andrew Cornall
  • Steven Epstein
  • James Mallinson

Hall Of Fame

Legend Award

Lifetime Achievement Awards

New Artist

Pop Female Vocalist

Pop Male Vocalist

Pop Vocal Group

  • Winner:
    Celine Dion, Peabo Bryson     Beauty and the Beast
  • Patty Smyth, Don Henley Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough
  • Genesis I Can't Dance
  • George Michael, Elton John Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  • Prince and the New Power Diamonds and Pearls

Producer Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno
  • Winner:
    L.A. Reid, Babyface
  • Chris Thomas
  • Mitchell Froom
  • Teddy Riley

Record Of The Year

Rock Female Vocalist

Rock Male Vocalist

Rock Song

Rock Vocal Group

Song Of The Year

  • Winner: Eric Clapton Tears In Heaven
  • Wendy Waldman, Jon Lind, Phil Galdston Save the Best for Last
  • k.d. lang, Ben Mink Constant Craving
  • Alan Menken, Howard Ashman Beauty and the Beast
  • Don Von Tress Achy Breaky Heart

Traditional Pop Performance

Trustees Award

  • Winner:
    W.C. Handy
  • Winner:
    George T. Simon
  • Winner:
    Ahmet Ertegun
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