For Your GRAMMY® Consideration
Audio for the Arts has two projects being considered for nomination in the GRAMMY® Awards this year!
In the Audiobook category...
The Tourists Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City
Henry H. Sapoznik
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City offers a new look at over a century of New York’s history of Yiddish popular culture. Henry H. Sapoznik—a five-time Grammy-nominated performer/producer and Peabody Award-winning co-producer of NPR’s Yiddish Radio Project—tells the story in chapters on theater, music, architecture, crime, Blacks and Jews, restaurants, real estate, and journalism. Culled from over five thousand Yiddish and English newspaper articles of the period, and thanks to new research from previously inaccessible materials, the book reveals fresh insights into the impossible-to-overstate influence of Yiddish culture on New York City.
The Tourist’s Guide to Lost Yiddish New York City is a vivid, entertaining, and accessible compendium of both New York’s lush Ashkenazic past and present, showcasing the culture’s persistent resiliency.
Henry H. Sapoznik, narrator
Recorded at Audio for the Arts, Madison WI
Audio production by Audrey Martinovich
Xavier Foley, composer
Eric Gould, composer
Regina Harris Baiocchi, composer
Autumn Maria Reed, composer
Omar Thomas, composer
Andrew Sewell, conductor
Recorded at Overture Center for the Arts
Engineers: Buzz Kemper and Audrey Martinovich
Mixed by: Buzz Kemper
Mastered by: Audrey Martinovich
In the
Best Engineered Album - Classical
&
Best Orchestral Performance categories...
ENDEAVOR
Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra
Originality and inclusivity are front and center on ENDEAVOR, the third installment in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra’s Musical Landscapes in Color project. Featuring works by diverse, living composers, the album makes a vibrant splash in the pool of contemporary repertoire.
ENDEAVOR is a bold exploration of the relentless pursuit of excellence. From Regina Harris Baiocchi’s evocative Muse for Orchestra to the world premiere of Madison local Autumn Maria Reed’s Mental Health Suite, this program is a testament to resilience and creativity.
Experience the cinematic sweep of Eric Gould’s An American City and the passionate tribute of Omar Thomas’ Of Our New Day Begun, which blends soulful tones with powerful rhythms. The performance culminates with the raw power of Xavier Foley’s Soul Bass concerto, as the composer himself joins the ensemble as a soloist.
This expressive, original, and forward-thinking album makes one thing clear: the future of classical music is now, and the bar has been raised.
Listen to ENDEAVOR: