We Accept!

Well, as of a few hours ago, we are officially your Grammy-nominated Minnesota Orchestra! The list of noms came out this afternoon (not that we were sitting around waiting for it, you understand... ehrm... well, maybe we were just a little bit...) and our recording of Beethoven's 9th Symphony made the list for Best Orchestral Performance. We're hardly the frontrunners - that dubious honor would probably go to the Nashville Symphony, whose recording of a new Joan Tower piece co-commissioned by a gigantic consortium of orchestras from all 50 states has been getting the full-on salivatory treatment from the arts press in recent months. But hey, it's our first nomination in one of the "major" categories in quite some time, and it's for a recording that I genuinely loved making, and that's enough to get me excited.