Um, it's an honor just to be nominated...?

In case you missed the Grammys tonight, our nominated recording of Beethoven's 9th failed to win the Best Orchestral Performance category. This wasn't terribly surprising, since the recording came out more than a year ago, and there was less media interest in it than we got for our first couple of Beethoven discs. Hearty congratulations to Leonard Slatkin and the Nashville Symphony, who won our category and a couple of others for their recording of Joan Tower's "Made In America."

Oh, and just for the record? I totally called this one...

(Also, while we may not have a Grammy, my pals in eighth blackbird, who I wrote about shortly after the nominations were announced, nailed down the prize for Best Chamber Music Performance. Well deserved, and if you haven't heard their "strange imaginary animals" album, you really should...)