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MUSIC NEWS
SF Symphony Wins Three Grammys
February 23, 2000
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The San Francisco Symphony today won three Grammys for its multiple CD recording of Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu,
Le Sacred du Printemps, and Persephone (BMG Classics/RCA Victor Red Seal,09026-68898-2). Featured with the orchestra on the recording are the Symphony Chorus, The SF Girls Chorus, Ragazzi and Peninsula Boys Chorus, One of the Grammys was for the Best Classical Album, the second was for Best Orchestral Performance and the third for Best Engineered Recording.
The orchestra left San Francisco yesterday to begin its 2000 Charles Schwab National Tour, of 14 concerts and 13 cities, six of the concerts in California. It will return on March 10.
Anthony Cheung, Gigi Chow and Tanya Gabrielian of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division won awards in the 1999-2000 Arts Recognition and Talent Search program of the National Foundation for Advancement for the Arts. They were among nine students selected for the highest "Level One Award" among the 20 winners in the music category and the 125 high school seniors winning in all the categories out of 7500 applicants. The top level choice for Cheung, Chow and Gabrielian was determined by their performances at a week-long series of master classes, workshops and performances recently conducted in Miami, Florida. Chow is a cello student of Bonnie Hampton and Jean-Michel Fonteneau, Cheung is a composition student of David Conte and Gabrielian is a piano student of John McCarthy.
Wayne Peterson, Ronald Caltabiano and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, music professors at San Francisco State University, last month were among 11 composers nationally to be awarded commissions by the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. No other institution received more than one of the awards. The winners were selected from more than 100 entrants and will receive the commissioning fee and a subsidy for the ensemble performing the premiere. Peterson, who is now retired, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his The Face of the Night, the Heart of the Dark and is the senior of the three winners. Caltabiano, an associate professor, a pupil of Elliott Carter and Vincent Persichetti and former assistant to Aaron Copland, has won several major awards. Sanchez-Gutierrez, a native of Mezico, has also won important awards and fellowships, both in Mexico and in this country.
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