HTN: BPO Wins Grammies

Prior to Sunday, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra had never won a single GRAMMY but that all changed at the 2009 awards ceremonies. The orchestra racked up two GRAMMY awards. The BPO won GRAMMYs in the categories of "Best Classical Performance" and "Best Classical Composition" for its piece "John Corigliano: Mr. Tambourine Man - Seven Poems of Bob Dylan." The piece was on the BPO's CD released last year. The group was also up for "Best Engineered CD" for a Respighi music collection. That award went to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Yo-Yo Ma. The winning piece was recorded two springs ago during a series of live concerts at Kleinhans Music Hall. Corigliano took Dylan's words and put them to his own compositions. Vocalist Hila Plitmann sang on the CD.