Grammy Award For Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra)
The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) was awarded from 1959 to 2011. From 1967 to 1971 and in 1987 the award was combined with the award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) and awarded as the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra).
The award has had several minor name changes:
- In 1959 the award was known as Best Classical Performance - Instrumentalist (with concerto scale accompaniment)
- In 1960 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist (with full orchestral accompaniment)
- In 1961 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Concerto or Instrumental Soloist
- In 1962 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist (with orchestra)
- From 1963 to 1964 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
- In 1965 it was awarded as Best Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra)
- From 1966 to 1991 and in 1994 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with orchestra) (or very a similar equivalent)
- In 1992 it was awarded as Best Instrumental Soloist With Orchestra
- In 1993 it was awarded as Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Solo With Orchestra
- From 1995 to 2011 it was awarded as Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)
The award will be discontinued from 2012 in a major overhaul of Grammy categories. From 2012, this category will merge with the Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (Without Orchestra) category to form the new Best Classical Instrumental Solo category. This is basically a return to the situation from 1967 to 1971.
Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.
Read more about Grammy Award For Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra): 2000s, 1990s, 1980s, 1970s, 1960s, 1950s
Famous quotes containing the words award, instrumental and/or performance:
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
“The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience there is no theater. Every technique learned by the actor, every curtain, every flat on the stage, every careful analysis by the director, every coordinated scene, is for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, our evaluators, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.”
—Viola Spolin (b. 1911)