An all-time high of three Grammy Award nominations was named to the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra this year for Vox recordings in the categories of Best Classical Orchestral Performance, Best Engineered Recording-Classical and Best Choral Performance.
The 1978 Grammy Awards mark the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s first nominations.
The Orchestra’s recording of Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 1, Leonard Slatkin, Conductor, won a nomination in the category of Best Orchestral Performance, and the Best Engineered Recording-Classical nomination was secured by Mark Aubort and Joanna Nickrenz for their work on Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevski, Leonard Slatkin, Conductor. And in its recording debut, the Saint Louis Symphony Chorus, Thomas Peck, Director, received a nomination for Best Choral Performance for the Nevski’ recording.
The Grammy Award represents America’s highest honor for recording excellence. Nominations in all categories indicate a secondary level of elimination which automatically qualifies the nominee for final ballot status: winners will be announced on the 21st Annual Grammy Awards, telecast February 15th over CBS-TV.
The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra records exclusively for Vox Productions, Inc. The Saint Louis Symphony Chorus is supported in part through the generosity of the Edward C. Garvey Memorial TruFoundation and the Frank G. and Floren. V. Bohle Scholarship Foundation.
Originally published in The Paper, January 1979.
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