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Recordings nominated for 2001 Grammy awards showcase talents of IU professor and alumnus
Jan. 4, 2001
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University Northwest professor and an alumnus of the IU School of Music have been nominated for Grammy awards, which are presented by the Recording Academy to recognize achievements in the recording arts.
Nominated are Ronald D. Cohen, professor of history at IU Northwest and co-director of the Calumet Regional Archives; and Joshua Bell, renowned violinist and graduate of the IU School of Music in Bloomington, where he studied with the legendary Josef Gingold.
Nominated in two Grammy categories is a boxed set of five folk compact discs, The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems Of The American Underground; From The Pages Of Broadside Magazine, which Cohen co-produced. Cohen is nominated along with co-producer Jeff Place and compilation producer Pete Reiniger.
The 89-track collection brings together "anthems of the American underground" that made their debut in the influential folk journal, Broadside Magazine. It also pays tribute to the magazine founders and publishers, Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and Gordon Friesen, who were veterans of the radical, political and folk music movement of the 1940s.
The boxed set also is nominated in the category for best album notes.
Bell, who received his artist's diploma in 1989, is nominated for his world premiere recording of Nicholas Maw's Violin Concerto, which also was the only classical recording nominated for the United Kingdom's prestigious Mercury Music Prize this year. He is joined by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Roger Norrington, and is nominated in the category for best instrumental soloist(s) performance (with orchestra).
Bell has been nominated for a Grammy several times before, including last year, when he was nominated with fellow IU alumnus and double bassist Edgar Meyer for their album Short Trip Home. He also has performed as soloist on three other Grammy-nominated albums: Aaron Jay Kernis - Air, the soundtrack of the film The Red Violin, and Listen to the Storyteller, which won a Grammy in 1999. Last year, The Red Violin soundtrack received the Academy Award for best original score.
Awards will be presented in 100 categories. The 43rd annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on CBS on Feb. 21 from Los Angeles.
(George Vlahakis, 812-855-0846, gvlahaki@indiana.edu; Roxanne Geraci, 219-980-6686, rgeraci@iunhaw1.iun.indiana.edu )