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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

Album Of The Year - Classical

  • Winner:
    Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic     Bernstein: Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish)
  • Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic (solos: Price, Corelli, Merrill, Freni) Bizet: Carmen
  • Georg Solti conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Evans, Merrill, Kraus, Simionato, Ligabue, Elias, others) Verdi: Falstaff
  • Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 5; Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts
  • Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra (solos: Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Ludwig, Ghiaurov) Verdi: Requiem Mass

Best Accompaniment Arrangement For Vocalist(s) Or Instrumentalist(s)

Best Album Cover

Best Album Cover - Classical

  • Winner:
    Fiedler conducting the Boston Pops     Saint-Saens: Carnival of the Animals; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
  • Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra Verdi: Requiem Mass
  • Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra R. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathurstra
  • Carlos Chavez Mexico (Legacy Collection)
  • Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor
  • Roger Blanchard Ensemble with the Poulteau Consort Court and Ceremonial Music of the 16th Century

Best Album Notes

Best Chamber Music Performance - Instrumental

  • Winner:
    Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky (Jacob Lateiner, piano)     Beethoven: Trio No. 1 in E Flat, Op. 1, No. 1
  • Igor Markevich conducting the Chamber Group (with narrators Jean Cocteau, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Marie Fertey, Anne Tonietti) Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat
  • Jean-Pierre Rampal, Robert Veyron-Lacroix Mozart: The Complete Flute Sonatas
  • Rudolf Serkin with the Budapest String Quartet Brahms: Quintet in F Minor for Piano and Strings
  • Juilliard String Quartet Beethoven: Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132
  • Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich Beethoven: Sonatas (5) for the Piano and Cello (Complete)

Best Chamber Music Performance - Vocal

  • Winner:
    New York Pro Musica (Noah Greenberg conducting)     It Was a Lover and His Lass (Morley, Byrd and others)
  • Hermione Gingold, Russell Oberlin, Thomas Dunn Walton: Facade
  • Vocal Arts Ensemble Music of the Renaissance (Des Prez, Morley)
  • Golden Age Singers Music for Voices and Violins in the Time of Shakespeare
  • Le Petit Ensemble Vocal de Montreal Dufay Motets
  • Deller Consort Music of Medieval France, 1200-1400, Sacred and Secular

Best Classical Composition By A Contemporary Composer

  • Winner:
    Samuel Barber     Piano Concerto
  • Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish)
  • Igor Stravinsky Sermon, Narrative and Prayer
  • Darius Milhaud A Frenchman in New York
  • Charles E. Ives New England Holidays

Best Classical Performance - Choral (other Than Opera)

  • Winner:
    Robert Shaw conducting the Robert Shaw Chorale     Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
  • George Lynn conducting the Westminster Choir; Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Verdi: Requiem Mass
  • Wilhelm Pitz directing the Philharmonia Chorus; Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra Verdi: Requiem Mass
  • Rene Duclos conducting the Rene Duclos Chorus; Georges Pretre conducting the Paris Conservatoire Poulenc: Stabat Mater
  • Elliott Forbes conducting the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society; Alfred Nash Patterson conducting the Chorus Pro Musica; Lorna Cooke De Varon conducting the New England Conservatory Chorus; Rt. Rev. Russell H. Davis conducting the St. John
  • Elmer Iseler conducting the Toronto Festival Chorus; Igor Stravinsky conducting the CBC Orchestra Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) With Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Isaac Stern (Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra)     Prokofiev: Concerto No. 1 in D Major for Violin
  • Julian Bream (Davis conducting the Melos Chamber Orchestra) Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra; Vivaldi: Concerto in D for Lute and Strings
  • Rafael Druian, Abraham Skernick (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major for Violin, Viola and Orchestra
  • Van Cliburn (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony) Brahms: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano
  • Artur Rubinstein (Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony) Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E Flat
  • Yehudi Menuhin (Kletzki conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra) Bloch: Concerto for Violin
  • John Browning (Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra) Barber: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 38

Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist(s) Without Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Vladimir Horowitz     Vladimir Horowtiz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin (Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 (Pathetique); Debussy: P
  • Sviatoslav Richter Richter Plays Schubert (Sonata in A Major for Piano; Wanderer Fantasia for Piano)
  • Julian Bream Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar (Villa-Lobos, Falla, etc.)
  • Igor Kipnis French Baroque Music for Harpsichord (Couperin, Rameau, Boismortier)
  • Glenn Gould Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions
  • Artur Rubinstein A French Program (Ravel, Poulenc, Faure, Chabrier)

Best Classical Performance - Orchestra

  • Winner:
    Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony     Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor; Berg: Wozzeck Excerpts (solo: Phyllis Curtin)
  • Bruno Walter conducting the Columbia Symphony Mozart: Last 6 Symphonies
  • George Szell conducting the Cleveland Orchestra R. Strauss: Symphonia Domestica
  • Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C (Resurrection)
  • Yehudi Menuhin conducting the Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra Handel: Concerti Grossi (12), Op. 6
  • Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in C Minor; Symphony No. 101 in D Major (Clock)
  • Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Best Classical Performance - Vocal Soloist (with Or Without Orchestra)

  • Winner:
    Leontyne Price (Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony)     Berlioz: Nuits d' Ete'; Falla: El Amor Brujo
  • Joan Sutherland (Bonynge conducting the London Symphony and New Symphony of London) The Age of Bel Canto: Operatic Scenes
  • Boris Christoff (Cluytens conducting the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra) Tsars and Kings (Opera Arias)
  • Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Shubert: Die Winterreise
  • Maria Callas (Rescigno conducting the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra) Callas Sings Verdi
  • Peter Pears (Britten conducting the London Symphony) Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings
  • Regine Crespin (Ansermet conducting the Suisse Romande Orchestra) Berlioz: Nuits d' Ete

Best Comedy Performance

Best Country & Western Album

Best Country & Western Single

Best Country & Western Song

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Female

Best Country & Western Vocal Performance - Male

Best Documentary, Spoken Word Or Drama Recording

  • Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole Dialogue Highlights from Becket
  • Richard Burton (original cast: Hume Cronyn, John Gielgud, Alfred Drake, George Voskovec, Eileen Herlie, William Redfield, George Ross) Shakespeare: Hamlet
  • original cast with Alec Guinness, Kate Reid Dylan
  • John F. Kennedy, narrated by David Brinkley, introduction by Adlai Stevenson The Kennedy Wit

Best Engineered Recording

Best Engineered Recording - Classical

  • Winner:
    Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra     Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
  • Vladimir Horowitz Vladimir Horowitz Plays Beethoven, Debussy, Chopin
  • Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 , Op. 100
  • Leinsdorf conducting the Boston Symphony Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp Minor
  • Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor (Resurrection)

Best Engineered Recording - Special Or Novel Effects

Best Folk Recording

Best Gospel Or Other Religious Recording - Musical

  • Winner:
    Great Gospel Songs     Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • Family Album of Hymns Roger Williams
  • Sweet Hour of Prayer Jo Stafford
  • Standin' on the Banks of the River James Cleveland and the Angelic Choir
  • This I Believe Fred Waring
  • George Beverly Shea Sings Hymns of Sunrise and Sunset George Beverly Shea
  • Gregorian Chant Dominican Nuns of Fichermont

Best Instrumental Arrangement

Best Instrumental Composition (other Than Jazz)

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group

Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Small Group Or Soloist With Small Group

Best Instrumental Performance (other Than Jazz)

Best New Country & Western Artist

Best Opera Recording

  • Winner:
    Herbert von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Price, Corelli, Merrill, Freni)     Bizet: Carmen
  • Thomas Schippers conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera House, Rome (solos: Freni, Gedda, Adani, Sereni) Puccini: La Boheme
  • Rudolf Kempe conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, Chorus of Vienna State Opera (solos: Thomas, Gummer, Fischer-Dieskau, Ludwig) Wagner: Lohengrin
  • Rudolf Kempe conducting the Bamberg Symphony (solos: Lorengar, Wunderlich, Frick) Smetana: The Bartered Bride
  • Alexander Melik-Pachaev conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of Bolshoi Theatre (solos: London, Arkhipova) Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
  • Georg Solti conducting the RCA Italiana Opera Orchestra and Chorus (solos: Evan, Merrill, Kraus, Simionato, Ligabue, Elias, Freni) Verdi: Falstaff

Best Original Jazz Composition

Best Original Score Written For A Motion Picture Or Television Show

  • Winner:
    Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman (Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, with David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn)     Mary Poppins
  • Sammy Cahn, Jimmy Van Heusen (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr.) Robin and the Seven Hoods
  • John Lennon, Paul McCartney (Beatles) A Hard Day's Night
  • John Barry Goldfinger
  • Henry Mancini The Pink Panther

Best Performance By A Chorus

  • Winner: Swingle Singers The Swingle Singers Going Baroque
  • Ray Charles Singers Love Me with All Your Heart
  • Serendipity Singers Don't Let the Rain Come Down (Crooked Little Man)
  • Henry Mancini Orchestra & Chorus Dear Heart
  • Stan Kenton Orchestra: Chorus by Pete Rugolo Artistry in Voices and Brass

Best Recording For Children

  • Winner:
    Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke with David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn     Mary Poppins
  • Marty Martin and Do-Re-Mi Children's Chorus A Spoonful of Sugar
  • Hugh Downs, narrator (Arthur Fielder conducting the Boston Pops Orchestra) Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
  • Fess Parker Daniel Boone
  • Burl Ives and Children's Chorus Burl Ives Chim Chim Cheree and Other Children's Choices

Best Score From An Original Cast Show Album

  • Winner:
    Jule Styne, Bob Merrill (original cast with Barbra Streisand)     Funny Girl
  • Jerry Herman (original cast with Carol Channing) Hello, Dolly!
  • Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick (original cast with Zero Mostel, Tanya Everett, Joanna Merlin) Fiddler on the Roof
  • Hugh Martin, Timothy Gray (original cast with Beatrice Lillie, Tammy Grimes, Edward Woodward) High Spirits
  • Ervin Drake (original cast with Steve Lawrence) What Makes Sammy Run?

Female Vocal Performance

Male Vocal Performance

Most Promising New Artist

  • Winner:
    Marilyn Horne, mezzo-soprano
  • Jess Thomas, tenor
  • Mirella Freni, soprano
  • Judith Raskin, soprano
  • Igor Kipnis, harpsichord

New Artist

Record Of The Year

Rhythm & Blues Recording

Rock And Roll Recording

Song Of The Year

  • Winner:
    Jerry Herman     Hello, Dolly
  • Leslie Bricusse, Anthony Newley Who Can I Turn To?
  • Jule Styne, Bob Merrill People
  • John Lennon, Paul McCartney A Hard Day's Night
  • Henry Mancini, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston Dear Heart

Vocal Group Performance

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