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1 Award winners:

• Record of the Year
  • Bones Howe (producer) & 5th Dimension for Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In

• Album of the Year
  • James William Guercio (producer) & Blood, Sweat & Tears for Blood, Sweat & Tears

• Song of the Year
  • Joe South for Games People Play

• Best New Artist
  • Crosby, Stills & Nash

1.1 Children's

• Best Recording for Children
  • Peter, Paul and Mary for Peter, Paul and Mommy

1.2 Classical

• Best Classical Performance, Orchestra
  • Pierre Boulez (conductor) & the Cleveland OrchestraThe Cleveland Orchestra is one of the major orchestras in the United States. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio. Often considered one of the finest orchestras in the world, Time Magazine rated the Cleveland Orchestra the Best Band in the Land in January of 19 for Boulez Conducts DebussyClaude Achille Debussy ( August 22, 1862 March 25, 1918), composer of impressionistic classical music. Born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France, Claude Debussy studied with Guiraud and others at the Paris Conservatoire ( 1872- 84) and as an 1884 Pr, Vol. 2 "Images Pour Orchestre"
• Best Vocal Soloist Performance, ClassicalThe Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance has been awarded since 1959. There have been several minor changes to the name of the award over this time: From 1959 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 the award was known as Best Classical Performance Voc
  • Thomas SchippersThomas Schippers ( 1930- 1977) was a prominent American orchestral conductor. He was highly-regarded for his operatic work. Schippers was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He began playing piano at age 4. He attended the Curtis Institute and the Julliard Schoo (conductor), Leontyne PriceCarl Van Vechten, 1951The soprano Leontyne Price (born February 10, 1927) is an African American opera singer. She was best known for her Verdi roles, above all Aida, a role to which she became more closely associated than any other singer of the postwar & the New Philharmonia for BarberSamuel Osborne Barber ( March 9, 1910 January 23, 1981) was an American composer of classical music best known for his Adagio for Strings''. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania and began to compose at the age of seven. He had already chosen this car: Two Scenes From "Antony and Cleopatra"/Knoxville, Summer of 1915
• Best Opera RecordingThe Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording has been awarded since 1961. The award was originally titled Best Classical Opera Production . The current title has been used since 1962. Prior to 1961 the awards for operatic and choral performances were combine
  • Otto Gerdes (producer), Herbert von Karajan (conductor), Helga Dernesch , Thomas Stolze , Jess Thomas & the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Siegfried
• Best Choral Performance, Classical (other than opera)
  • Luciano Berio (conductor), Ward Swingle (choir director), the Swingle Singers & the New York Philharmonic for Berio: Sinfonia
• Best Classical Performance - Instrumental Soloist or Soloists (with or without orchestra)
  • Walter Carlos for Switched-On-Bach
• Best Chamber Music Performance
  • The Chicago Brass Ensemble , Cleveland Brass Ensemble & Philadelphia Brass Ensemble for Gabrieli: Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli
• Album of the Year, Classical
  • Rachel Elkind (producer) & Walter Carlos for Switched-On-Bach