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2nd Annual Grammy Awards

Index 2nd Annual Grammy Awards

The 2nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on November 29, 1959, at Los Angeles and New York. [1]

107 relations: Anatomy of a Murder, André Previn, Arthur Rubinstein, Battle Hymn of the Republic, Billy May, Bobby Darin, Boston Symphony Orchestra, But Not for Me (song), Carl Sandburg, Charles Munch (conductor), Claude Debussy, Come Dance with Me (song), Come Dance with Me! (album), David Rose (songwriter), Dean Martin, Dinah Washington, Dmitri Shostakovich, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Swings Lightly, Erich Leinsdorf, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra, George London (bass-baritone), Giorgio Tozzi, Grammy Award, Grammy Award for Album of the Year, Grammy Award for Best Album for Children, Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance, Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral, Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo, Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album, Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song, Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording, Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical, Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording – Special or Novel Effects, Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording, Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra), Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra), Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album, Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance, Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus, Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing, ..., Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra, Grammy Award for Best R&B Song, Grammy Award for Best Recording Package, Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media, Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television, Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album, Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male, Grammy Award for Record of the Year, Grammy Award for Song of the Year, Gwen Verdon, Gypsy (musical), Harry Belafonte, Herbert von Karajan, Homer and Jethro, Howard Mitchell, Jimmy Driftwood, Johnny Horton, Jonah Jones, Jussi Björling, Ken Darby, Kirill Kondrashin, Leonard Stone, Lisa Della Casa, Los Angeles, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mack the Knife, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Nat King Cole, NBC, NBC Sunday Showcase, New York City, Peter and the Wolf, Peter Ustinov, Philharmonia Orchestra, Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff), Piano Sonata No. 18 (Beethoven), Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven), Porgy and Bess (film), Redhead (musical), Richard Kiley, Richard P. Condie, Robert Russell Bennett, Roberta Peters, Rosalind Elias, Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Shelley Berman, Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich), The Battle of New Orleans, The Kingston Trio, The Marriage of Figaro, Van Cliburn, Vienna Philharmonic, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1st Annual Grammy Awards, 3rd Annual Grammy Awards. Expand index (57 more) »

Anatomy of a Murder

Anatomy of a Murder is a 1959 American courtroom drama crime film produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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André Previn

André George Previn, KBE (born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929) is a German-American pianist, conductor, and composer.

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Arthur Rubinstein

Arthur Rubinstein (Artur Rubinstein; 28 January 188720 December 1982) was a Polish American classical pianist.

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Battle Hymn of the Republic

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic," also known as "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory," outside of the United States, is a lyric by the American writer Julia Ward Howe using the music from the song "John Brown's Body." Howe's more famous lyrics were written in November 1861, and first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February 1862.

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Billy May

Edward William May Jr. (November 10, 1916 – January 22, 2004) was an American composer, arranger and trumpeter.

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Bobby Darin

Bobby Darin (born Walden Robert Cassotto; May 14, 1936 – December 20, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor in film and television.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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But Not for Me (song)

"But Not for Me" is a popular song, composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin.

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Carl Sandburg

Carl August Sandburg (January 6, 1878 – July 22, 1967) was a Swedish-American poet, writer, and editor.

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Charles Munch (conductor)

Charles Munch (born Charles Münch; 26 September 1891 – 6 November 1968) was an Alsacian, German-born symphonic conductor and violinist.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Come Dance with Me (song)

"Come Dance With Me" is a popular song composed by Jimmy Van Heusen, with lyrics by Sammy Cahn as the title track for Frank Sinatra's 1959 album of the same name.

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Come Dance with Me! (album)

Come Dance with Me! is an album by American vocalist Frank Sinatra, released in 1959.

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David Rose (songwriter)

David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was an American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader.

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Dean Martin

Dean Martin (born Dino Paul Crocetti; June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, actor, comedian and film producer.

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Dinah Washington

Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s".

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Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella.

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Ella Swings Lightly

Ella Swings Lightly is a 1958 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, recorded with the Marty Paich Dek-tette.

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Erich Leinsdorf

Erich Leinsdorf (born Erich Landauer; February 4, 1912 – September 11, 1993) was an Austrian-born American conductor.

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Ethel Merman

Ethel Merman (born Ethel Agnes Zimmermann, January 16, 1908 – February 15, 1984) was an American actress and singer.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century.

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George London (bass-baritone)

George London (born George Burnstein; May 30, 1920 – March 24, 1985) was an American concert and operatic bass-baritone.

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Giorgio Tozzi

Giorgio Tozzi (January 8, 1923 – May 30, 2011) was an American operatic bass.

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Grammy Award

A Grammy Award (stylized as GRAMMY, originally called Gramophone Award), or Grammy, is an award presented by The Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry.

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Grammy Award for Album of the Year

The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales, chart position, or critical reception." Album of the Year is the most prestigious award category at the Grammys having been presented since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Album for Children

The Grammy Award for Best Album for Children has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Arrangement

The Grammy Award for Best Arrangement was awarded from 1959 to 1962.

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Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance - Operatic or Choral was awarded in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo

The Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album

The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement in comedy." The award was awarded yearly from 1959 to 1993 and then from 2004 to present day.

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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Song was awarded between 1959 and 1971.

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Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording was awarded from 1959 to 1968.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording – Special or Novel Effects

The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording – Special or Novel Effects was awarded from 1960 to 1965.

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Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording

The Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording was awarded from 1960 to 1986.

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Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance was a Grammy Award recognizing superior vocal performance by a female in the pop category, the first of which was presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo

The Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition (including its previous names) has been awarded since 1960.

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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra)

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) was awarded from 1959 to 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)

The Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) was awarded from 1959 to 2011.

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Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album

The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that was first presented in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album

The Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best New Artist

The Grammy Award for Best New Artist has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus was awarded from 1959 to 1960.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra – for Dancing

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra - for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964.

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Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra

The Grammy Award for Best Performance by an Orchestra or Instrumentalist with Orchestra - Primarily Not Jazz or for Dancing was awarded from 1959 to 1964.

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Grammy Award for Best R&B Song

The Grammy Award for Best R&B Song (sometimes known as the R&B Songwriter's Award) has been awarded since 1969.

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Grammy Award for Best Recording Package

The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album.

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Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media is an honor presented to a composer or composers for an original score created for a film, TV show or series, video games or other visual media at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television

The Grammy Award for Best Sound Track Album or Recording of Original Cast From a Motion Picture or Television was awarded from 1959 to 1962.

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Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album

The Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album has been awarded since 1959.

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Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male

The Grammy Award for Best Vocal Performance, Male was awarded from 1959 to 1968.

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Grammy Award for Record of the Year

The Grammy Award for Record of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to sales or chart position." The Record of the Year award is one of the four most prestigious categories at the awards (alongside Best New Artist, Song of the Year and Album of the Year) presented annually since the 1st Grammy Awards in 1959.

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Grammy Award for Song of the Year

The Grammy Award for Song of the Year is an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards.

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Gwen Verdon

Gwyneth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer.

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Gypsy (musical)

Gypsy is a 1959 musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.

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Herbert von Karajan

Herbert von Karajan (born Heribert Ritter von Karajan; 5 April 1908 – 16 July 1989) was an Austrian conductor.

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Homer and Jethro

Homer and Jethro were the stage names of American country music duo Henry D. "Homer" Haynes (1920–1971) and Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns (1920–1989), popular from the 1940s through the 1960s on radio and television for their satirical versions of popular songs.

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Howard Mitchell

Howard Mitchell (1910 – 22 June 1988 in Palm Coast, Florida) was an American cellist and conductor.

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Jimmy Driftwood

James Corbitt Morris (June 20, 1907 – July 12, 1998), known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk music songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud".

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Johnny Horton

John LaGale "Johnny" Horton (April 30, 1925 – November 5, 1960) was an American country music and rockabilly singer and musician, best known for his saga ballads beginning with the song "The Battle of New Orleans", which was awarded the 1960 Grammy Award for Best Country & Western Recording.

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Jonah Jones

Jonah Jones (born Robert Elliott Jones; December 31, 1909 – April 29, 2000) was a jazz trumpeter who created concise versions of jazz and swing and jazz standards that appealed to a mass audience.

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Jussi Björling

Johan Jonatan "Jussi" Björling (5 February 19119 September 1960) was a Swedish tenor.

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Ken Darby

Kenneth Lorin Darby (May 13, 1909 – January 24, 1992) was an American composer, vocal arranger, lyricist, and conductor.

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Kirill Kondrashin

Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin (Russian: Кири́лл Петро́вич Кондра́шин, Kirill Petrovič Kondrašin; – 7 March 1981), PAU, was a Soviet and Russian conductor.

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Leonard Stone

Leonard Stone (November 3, 1923 – November 2, 2011) was an American character actor who played supporting roles in over 120 television shows and 35 films.

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Lisa Della Casa

Lisa Della Casa (2 February 191910 December 2012) was a Swiss soprano most admired for her interpretations of major heroines in operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Richard Strauss, and of German lieder.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 1770Beethoven was baptised on 17 December. His date of birth was often given as 16 December and his family and associates celebrated his birthday on that date, and most scholars accept that he was born on 16 December; however there is no documentary record of his birth.26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist.

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Mack the Knife

"Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" (later known as "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera.

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Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, sometimes colloquially referred to as MoTab or Tab Choir, is a 360-member choir.

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Nat King Cole

Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965), known professionally as Nat King Cole, was an American jazz pianist and vocalist.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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NBC Sunday Showcase

NBC Sunday Showcase was a series of hour-long specials telecast in color on NBC during the 1959-60 season.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Peter and the Wolf

Peter and the Wolf (p) Op. 67, a 'symphonic fairy tale for children', is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936.

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Peter Ustinov

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, (né von Ustinov; or; 16 April 192128 March 2004) was a British actor, voice actor, writer, dramatist, filmmaker, theatre and opera director, stage designer, screenwriter, comedian, humorist, newspaper and magazine columnist, radio broadcaster, and television presenter.

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Philharmonia Orchestra

The Philharmonia Orchestra is a British orchestra based in London.

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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)

The Piano Concerto No.

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Piano Sonata No. 18 (Beethoven)

The Piano Sonata No.

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Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.

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Porgy and Bess (film)

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger.

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Redhead (musical)

Redhead is a musical with music composed by Albert Hague and lyrics by Dorothy Fields, who with her brother, Herbert, along with Sidney Sheldon and David Shaw wrote the book/libretto.

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Richard Kiley

Richard Paul Kiley (March 31, 1922 – March 5, 1999) was an American stage, television, and film actor.

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Richard P. Condie

Richard P. Condie (July 5, 1898 – December 22, 1985) was the conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1957 to 1974.

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Robert Russell Bennett

Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.

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Roberta Peters

Roberta Peters (May 4, 1930 – January 18, 2017) was an American coloratura soprano.

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Rosalind Elias

Rosalind Elias (born March 13, 1929) is an American mezzo-soprano who enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the Metropolitan Opera.

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Ross Bagdasarian Sr.

Rostom Sipan "Ross" Bagdasarian (January 27, 1919 – January 16, 1972), otherwise known by his stage name David Seville, was an American pianist, musician, actor, voice actor, and record producer.

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff (28 March 1943) was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the Romantic repertoire.

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Shelley Berman

Sheldon Leonard Berman (February 3, 1925 – September 1, 2017) was an American comedian, actor, writer, teacher, lecturer and poet.

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Symphony No. 5 (Shostakovich)

The Symphony No.

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The Battle of New Orleans

"The Battle of New Orleans" is a song written by Jimmy Driftwood.

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The Kingston Trio

The Kingston Trio is an American folk and pop music group that helped launch the folk revival of the late 1950s to late 1960s.

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The Marriage of Figaro

The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), K. 492, is an opera buffa (comic opera) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.

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Van Cliburn

Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Moscow in 1958 (during the Cold War).

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Vienna Philharmonic

The Vienna Philharmonic (VPO; Wiener Philharmoniker), founded in 1842, is an orchestra considered to be one of the finest in the world.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791), baptised as Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, was a prolific and influential composer of the classical era.

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1st Annual Grammy Awards

The 1st Annual Grammy Awards were held on May 4, 1959.

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3rd Annual Grammy Awards

The 3rd Annual Grammy Awards were held on April 13, 1961, at Los Angeles and New York.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd_Annual_Grammy_Awards

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