#ch. christopher brooks

[whiskeys-muses]

Christopher Carver Brooks

43-46. he/him. bisexual. vintner. david gandy.

more information to come.

[catvampire]

All on The Prince’s Seal / Ch. IV

[ Masterlist ]

Luke heard the door closed behind Matt and another person entering. It took him a blink longer than it should have for him to realise he should stand up to greet the person, especially now that his security had left him on his own for a moment. He turned around to face the visitor: a brown woman with light brown hair and dark eyes. A woman he knew.

“Lady Douglas.” He couldn’t keep a small surprise from his voice. She seemed almost as surprised as he was.

“Your Highness,” countess Lisa Douglas spoke, giving a curtsy much deeper than felt right for the situation. Last time they’d met, they’d both been in formal attire in a ballroom: the change from that to her simple dress and his sweater---Matt’s sweater, no less---and a chance meeting in a hospital room was stark. “Should I leave you alone?”

“No, I--umh. I was just here to see Mr Brooks.”

“Yes---of course.”

Luke gestured towards the chair Matt had just vacated, and Lady Douglas bowed her head as she sat down, placing her bag and flowers down next to the chair. She glanced at Phil, took the image in, sorrow passing her face---Luke followed her gaze, the shadow of the emotional outburst passing his mind, reminding him to build up walls around it. It was time to be Crown Prince again.

“I didn’t know you know Phil,” he said to offer something to talk about to break the weighted silence.

“He used to work for my family’s estate before the royal palace. My brother would’ve paid him anything to get him to stay there---he said it wasn’t about money.” She gave a pointed look to Luke.

“Yeah, you know him. When he makes up his mind, there’s no turning him around.”

Lisa let out a laugh… and then the conversation died down. There were some birds chirping outside the opened window, and he could vaguely hear a news report coming from a few rooms away---other than that, it became silent for a minute.

“I’m so sorry for your loss, your Highness.”

The reminder of Teresa’s death hurt a lot more than he expected it to. Luke kept his eyes out to the window but could feel Lisa looking at him, the few intakes of breath sounding like she was trying to say something but feeling hesitant about it. When she moved in her chair, straightened herself up for courage, Luke turned to look at her.

“Can I pry something?” she asked, unsure if she was stepping over boundaries. The way she asked made him uncomfortable; she had done nothing in the past to invade his privacy, and her uncertainty gave the moment a strange edge. Luke didn’t answer but didn’t do anything to say ‘no’ either, so she continued: “I saw in the news you’d given permission for the Day of the Roses to go on as every year. Are you not planning to be coronated today?”

He understood her hesitancy now. “No.” It was the one thing he was sure; he would not take Teresa’s day. He could not sit on the throne Teresa was supposed to sit down today, not let the crown be pressed on his head when the person it had been fitted for had passed just hours ago. This was Teresa’s coronation---even if she wouldn’t stand as a Queen on the stage today, he would not steal the day for himself. Not in these circumstances.

“How long are you going to wait?”

“I don’t know. Matt---umh, my bodyguard, a friend---suggested I could wait to next year to keep the tradition. It’d give me time to prepare.”

Her confused look gave him an incentive to continue.

“Teresa was always going to be Queen. Her kids after her. Of course, there was always a chance she’d fall down the stairs or run away or just refuse the throne and I’d end up ruling, but for the last ten-twenty years, it’s felt so obvious she would become Queen and rule until she was sixty and then give the throne to one of her adopted kids. I was just the spare. And this I get a knock on my door this morning at six telling me I’ve just become King because my sister died on her way to the coronation. I haven’t known any longer than anyone else in Valosia. And I don’t know if I can run a country like she could have.”

It felt like too much information to give someone like this, even someone noble, even in a private setting, but the weight of the day gone past was finally crumbling him. Matt understood, but he hadn’t had the chance to say these things out loud to him---and Matt knew anyway. Now that he knew he was going to spend the rest of the day under camera lights, it felt like the last moment to get these things out to someone before it’d crush him.

“I know how you feel.” Lisa seemed genuinely empathetic. “I have five brothers. When I was born, everyone assured me I wouldn’t have to worry about the county. Then Daniel decided he wanted to stay in the military and Christopher married abroad, and suddenly there was just Marcus before I’d be in the line of inheritance. Marcus didn’t want the burden either but thankfully held on to it while I studied. Daniel and Christopher helped me learn what they’d been taught, and the rest I learnt on my own---and my younger brothers know what to do if I suddenly have to step down. But it was a tough two years.”

This was surprising. Despite knowing the Douglas lineage from lessons in childhood and the occasional tabloid headline, all of this was new information to Luke. He’d heard about Daniel and Christopher in passing, on the gossip circles in galas he’d paid little attention to, but had never stopped to think what it meant for the family. And Lady Douglas had done great work in keeping it from becoming a national story. He couldn’t even recall seeing articles about the county doing poorly.

“Wow.”

She seemed genuinely flattered by that for a moment before her expression turned serious again. “But I’m no Queen.”

A pause. “And Valosia has been without a monarch for almost a year already. Teresa didn’t marry or have an heir, and now the crown is compromised. You’re the last of your family, Prince Lucas. If anything happens to you...”

‘...it’s the end of the Alvez lineage.’ ‘...who knows who will have the crown?’ ‘...the monarchy could end here.’

None of the options with which she could finish the sentence was appealing, and she seemed to come to the same conclusion when she cleared her throat and closed her lips. The air had suddenly turned heavy---and as much as Luke wanted to think this all was his alone to deal with, she was right. For centuries Valosia had allowed the crown to pass to adopted children and to spouses to avoid this very situation, and Luke found himself, very briefly, feeling angry at Teresa for waiting so long and leaving him in this situation before rectifying himself.

She didn’t know. And neither did you.

A knock on the door shattered through the tension. “It’s me.”

A welcome relief. “Come in, Simmons,” Luke called out, and the doorway opened, Matt stepped halfway into the room. Luke could hear the crinkle of plastic as he moved, and while the door covered the source of it, Luke could make a strong guess towards ‘flowers’.

“Am I interrupting anything, your Highness?”

“No, I was just---...” Luke stood up. “Leaving.”

“I’m sorry, your Highness,” Lisa voiced, “if I overstepped.”

“No, not at all, Lady Douglas… Thank you.” She stayed sat down, and it came to Luke she was likely planning to stay until Phil woke up. “If he wakes up, will you tell him I came by?”

“Of course, your Highness.”

It didn’t feel right to give longer goodbyes, so Luke simply exited the room after Matt.

Luke’s guess for the sound of the crinkling had been correct: in his left hand, Matt was carrying three bouquets of varying colours, each with a card hanging from the Luke could just barely make out printed text.

“What’s this?”

Matt’s expression turned from serious to slightly sheepish as he offered the roses towards Luke to give a better look.

“Flowers. For the three other people who got hurt in the explosion. I sent one for the family of the one person who died. I told them that if they want someone from the palace to attend the funeral, it could be arranged. But these were coming here, so I wanted to get your signature while we are here.”

Matt offered a fountain pen to Luke, and without saying a word, Luke signed the cards one by one, quickly giving a glance to the well-written cards giving condolences and offering help should any be needed. They weren’t written by Matthew, he could tell from the wording, but knew better than to ask at this point.

“You’ve thought of everything.”

Matt passed the flowers along to a shorter woman Luke hadn’t noticed before who left with them. When he turned back to Luke, his face had turned serious again. “I actually wanted to pull you out because I have news.”

“The head of National Security ruled the explosion as a result of attempted arson. There had been leaking gas pipes in the building, so when some anarchist tried to set the building fire as a protest, presumably towards Teresa, it had blown up instead of just burning.”

Luke stared at him for a moment, completely frozen in his place. The emotional whiplash seized all thought process, left him speechless until he could properly take in the situation. “Arson?”

“The guy is in the wind. Barnes, Prentiss, and Atwood are giving a press conference about it now. JJ is waiting for us outside. They want you in the palace to give a speech as soon as possible.”

A small beat. “We should go.”

[nuclearblastuk]

THE ADICTS ANNOUNCE UK AND EU TOUR DATES! The classic kings of punk, THE ADICTS, released their 11th studio album ‘And It Was So!’ last November via Nuclear Blast in the US and Arising Empire in Europe and the UK. Today the band are pleased to finally announce a UK/EU tour later in 2018. The run will consist of 25 shows including appearances at North West Calling, Manchester and Rebellion Festival, Blackpool. Full dates and tickets below!  02.06. DE Cologne - Live Music Hall 03.06. NL Amsterdam - Rebellion Festival 08.06. ES Lleida - Kalikeño Rock Fest 09.06. DE Leipzig - Felsenkeller 28.06. UK London - Islington Academy 29.06. UK Bristol – The Fleece 30.06. UK Manchester - North West Calling 01.07. UK Norwich - Waterfront 03.08. FR Albi - Xtreme Fest 05.08. UK Blackpool - Rebellion Festival 28.09. BE Sint-Niklaas - De Casino 29.09. NL Leiden - Gebr. De Nobel 01.10. DE Krefeld - Kulturfabrik 02.10. DE Wilhelmshaven - Pumpwerk 03.10. DE Berlin - Huxleys Neue Welt 04.10. DE Hamburg - Markthalle 05.10. DE Dresden - Eventwerk 06.10. DE Potsdam - Lindenpark 09.10. DE Münster - Sputnik-Halle 11.10. CZ Prague - MeetFactory 12.10. CZ Ostrava - Brick House 15.10. DE Munich - Backstage 18.10. DE Nuremberg - Hirsch 19.10. CH Bern - Dachstock 21.10. DE Frankfurt – Batschkapp 

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[honey-bri-books]

Chapters: 21/? Fandom: Carry On Series - Rainbow Rowell, Simon Snow & Related Fandoms Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch/Simon Snow Characters: Tyrannus Basilton "Baz" Pitch, Simon Snow, Agatha Wellbelove, Penelope Bunce, Mitali Bunce, Malcolm Grimm, Natasha Grimm-Pitch, Nicodemus Petty, Lucy Salisbury, Davy, The Mage (Simon Snow), Daphne Grimm (Simon Snow), Ebeneza "Ebb" Petty Additional Tags: Fluff, Flirting, boys flirting, boy crush, Gay, gay fluff, Grocery Store, Alternate Universe - College/University, Alternate Universe - Grocery Store, carry on au, Vomit, Smut, Masturbation, Dirty Talk, Daddy Kink, Depressing, Class Differences, Pining, Shower Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Cum Eating, Blow Jobs, Non-Consensual Blow Jobs, Eating Disorders, Hospitals, Harassment

Tying one loose end up, after another! Here’s to Ch. 21 ~The Test (Possible spoilers for ‘World War Z’, by Max Brooks). 

I’m feeling the need to wrap this up soon. Gonna definitely need several chapters, to do it. Things on my brain... (NOT necessarily gonna happen, but thoughts, ideas...)

POSSIBLE MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Simon and Agatha possibly meeting up again, to talk. ~Maybe

*Revelation as to why Simon’s father was so on board with him never seeing Christopher again, when they were little (How Lucy convinced Davy to pull Simon out of school and part ways with Christopher...) ~Probably

*Baz getting word about his father’s “situation”, giving him no choice but go back to the mansion, and pay his dues.  ~Definitely

*Simon struggling with what to do about his past arrangement with Shepard, and how cheating has affected his final grades. ~Probably

*The final chapter/final thoughts from ‘The Dryad King’. ~Definitely

*Simon and Baz finding their dream home, while also opening up/funding a shelter for runaways. ~Probably/Definitely

*A job opportunity for both Baz and Simon, while one or both decide on whether or not they want to go back to school. ~Maybe

...My brain is a little overwhelmed right now, because I feel this fic going on forever is impossible. I love SnowBaz so much, but I want them to finally get their happy ending. 

***Thoughts? Anyway, I want so much to do it right and not rush. But I’m not going to lie. It’s fucking hard. I can only promise I’ll do my best.

~Thank you AO3 Peeps! Writers, Staff Members, Readers, Members and Guests...Love You All! Stay safe and healthy and take time out for you, during these crazy times.  ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Summary:

Baz is an overworked employee for an understaffed grocery store, who puts up with his job in order to support himself while attending school. The black sheep of the family, Baz's father cuts him off from the family inheritance. He's left to make due on his own, but does so determined to finish school and do well by himself. His mother having died when he was young, Baz holds onto the memory of her love, when life grows hard.

Simon has been spoiled his whole life, and can't seem to appreciate his parents' efforts to get him ahead in life, including a free get-into-top-notch-school card. Despite countless perks, comforts, and financial support, Simon is finally starting to realize...He's truly unhappy. While never admitting to arranging his marriage, Simon knows that his relationship with Agatha seems to please their parents more than it does him. An unplanned trip to the grocery store after a failed night with Agatha completely turns Simon's world upside down.

[cargopantsman]

Back to Germania

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Knowing where I am, and when, is a good start. It does bring to light the fact that I really have no firm idea of what all was going on at the time. I'm aware that Caesar had conquered Gaul and is now full of holes. There is a certain fun little side game here though; wherein I have access to a translated contemporary text, footnotes from the translator from a century ago, and now access to modern theories on what was going on at the time. Which is part of why I'm getting sidetracked so often because I like trying to corroborate these things.

To continue: "2.) The people of Germany appear to me indigenous, and free from intermixture with foreigners, either as settlers or casual visitants." Oh did the Nazis have fun with that. (Actually, they had an obsession with the whole text and I probably need to give a read to "A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus’s Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich" by Christopher B Krebs).

Skipping a paragraph, this is later expounded on. "4. I concur in opinion with those who deem the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations; but to be a race, pure, unmixed, and stamped with a distinct character. Hence a family likeness pervades the whole, though their numbers are so great: eyes stern and blue; ruddy hair; large bodies, powerful in sudden exertions, but impatient of toil and labor, least of all capable of sustaining thirst and heat. Cold and hunger they are accustomed by their climate and soil to endure."

This is where I went scrambling for two things, a Latin transcription of the text (not that I know Latin, but I can be patient enough to look up each and word and cobble enough meaning to figure out if the translation is faithful) and a biography of the translator (where I previously settled on Edward Brooks Jr being Anglo-American and probably not a 19th century German Nationalist).

So stop and think. This is a text written 1,850 years before the events that make these sentences cringe-worthy occurred. Written by a Roman concerning tribes that have been and will be a threat to the Roman Empire since the Cimbrian Wars of 113-101 BCE up to the Sack of Rome in 546.

The footnote for paragraph claims "12. The ancient writers called all nations indigenae (i.e. inde geniti), or autochthones, "sprung from the soil," of whose origin they were ignorant."

The commentary on "a race, pure, unmixed," after considerable effort to disassociate it from modern connotation, might more clearly read as "a race, isolated, just coming into historical record." I doubt it would be far off the mark to think of many Romans saying "They all look the same, they don't look like us, and there's a lot of them."

The next thing my brain wandered off and pondered on were the Gauls. "The Gauls are tall of body, with rippling muscles, and white of skin, and their hair is blond, and not only naturally so, but they also make it their practice by artificial means to increase the distinguishing colour which nature has given it. For they are always washing their hair in lime-water, and they pull it back from the forehead to the top of the head and back to the nape of the neck, with the result that their appearance is like that of Satyrs and Pans, since the treatment of their hair makes it so heavy and coarse that it differs in no respect from the mane of horses. Some of them shave the beard, but others let it grow a little; and the nobles shave their cheeks, but they let the moustache grow until it covers the mouth." [Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 28, trans. CH Oldfather]

Looking at the geographical coverage of Hallstatt and La Tène culture archaeology, the people we would call Celts covered most of Europe north of the Alps with particular cores right in the heart of Germania (this covers a date range of 800-450 BCE for Hallstatt and up to 1 CE for La Tène giving way to Roman conquest). Meanwhile, in Denmark/Jutland and the Scandinavian lands beyond the North and Baltic seas, from 1700-500 BCE, the Germanic ancestors were having a lot of fun with bronze. From 500 BCE to the current era covers a period called the Jastorf Culture where the Germani migrated south from Scandinavia and filled in a gap in the north of Europe until they came into contact with La Tène cultures, and presumably picked up a membership to the Iron Age.

My learning of this little migration at this time lines up pretty well with Tacitus. Jumping back to paragraph 2: "- and free from intermixture with foreigners, either as settlers or casual visitants. For the emigrants of former ages performed their expeditions not by land, but by water; [13] and that immense, and, if I may so call it, hostile ocean, is rarely navigated by ships from our world." What made me laugh is the associated footnote that reads "It is, however, well established that the ancestors of the Germans migrated by land from Asia. Tacitus here falls into a very common kind of error, in assuming a local fact (viz. the manner in which migrations took place in the basin of the Mediterranean) to be the expression of a general law.—ED."

I couldn't help but imagine the editor reading Snorri's Forward in the Prose Edda and just rolling with it. (Granted, this may refer to an even earlier migration I haven't looked into regarding Proto-Indo-Europeans moving in from Scythia, but that’s a digression I don’t want to go into right now.)

Back to the Celts, particularly the Gauls; Rome had spent the last 400 years securing a border against Gallic invaders starting with Brennus of the Senones successfully sacking Rome in 390 BCE. Celtic tribes at this time were also pushing into the Carpathian region of Dacia to the east and Pannonia to the west. An advance that lead to (a different) Brennus nearly sacking Delphi. (They wisely waited until Alexander the Great had died before trying this.) This general southern push of Celtic/Gallic peoples from ~400-250 BCE ties in neatly with the southern expansion of Jastorf culture findings in the same time frame.

Generally speaking, migrations and invasions are rarely so cut and dry that peoples A are wholly displaced and dispersed by peoples B. Lacking information on what actually happened at the borders between Jastorf and La Tene cultures, how they interacted as both Germani and Celt moved southward, I'll for the moment assume a median model of trade, warfare, raids and, contrary to Tacitus' opinion, an intermixing of Celtic and Germanic bloodlines.

The Germanic Cimbri tribe offers a glimpse of this probable cultural blending. Having swept southeast from Jutland-Denmark through Germania and first clashing with Rome in Noricum to kick off the Cimbrian War from 113-101 BCE. While Caesar, Pliny, Tacitus, and Strabo consider the Cimbri to be Germanic, at least one ancient scholar, Appian in his Civil Wars, consider the Cimbri to be Celtic. The main Cimbrian chief from the wars, Boiorix, has a heavily Celtic name with the "-rix" suffix. The name translates to "King of the Boii" that signifies him as a leader of a Celtic tribe even though he is leading a Germanic tribe. (Dat Boii being one of the Gallic tribes pushed out of Cisalpine Gaul into Bohemia [Boiohaemum] back around the 193 BCE).

Fifty years later, Julius Caesar declared a delineation between Celtic and Germanic tribes being the Rhine river, but the Rhine does not appear to have been as much a blockade against Jastorf expansion as the Danube (and Roman presence along it) did. The Rhine line seems to be more politically and militarily motivated in that Caesar wasn't interested in taking his legions east of the Rhine. It is said that the Romans were rather indiscriminant in labeling Transalpine tribes as Gallic, Celtic or Germanic as it was. Grouping the barbarian tribes as Gallic, Celtic or Germanic may well have been more an issue of geography than ethnography.

I would venture to take this viewpoint positively in figuring what Tacitus might mean in his use of the phrase "intermarried with other nations," in particularly what the Roman concept of a nation is. For if the Romans considered the Germanic and Celtic tribes to be close enough to be careless with their labels of them, a collection of large, muscular peoples with reddish-blond hair and beards might be sufficient to call "unmixed."

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[danzadance]

Review 2019 - The Dance Year from Dance Europe on Vimeo.

A collage featuring some of the wonderful dancers and companies photographed by Dance Europe during the past 12 months.

Photographs: The Nutcracker, Mariinsky Ballet - Kimin Kim and Maria Khoreva; Le Parc ch: Angelin Preljocaj- Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo; Beauty and The Beast ch: David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Delia Mathews and Tyrone Singleton; Yaoqian Shang; Faun ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Paris Opera - Juliette Hilaire and Marc Moreau; Les Noces ch: Pontus Lidberg, Paris Opera; Blue Moon ch: Aletta Collins, The Royal Ballet; Odissi Solo - Mavin Khoo; What is BirdGang? - BirdGang; Don Quixote pr: Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet - Marianela Nuñez; Swan Lake pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Germain Louvet and François Alu; Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet; Bon Voyage, Bob... ch: Alan Lucien Øyen - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Hotel - Cirque Éloize; Swan Lake, Dutch National Ballet - Maia Makhateli and Daniel Camargo; Le Reveil de Flore - Mariinsky Ballet; Frankenstein ch: Liam Scarlett, The Royal Ballet - Federico Bonelli and Wei Wang; Russian Ballet Icons Gala - Marcelino Sambé; Julian MacKay; Romeo and Juliet ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Lauren Cuthbertson; Victoria ch: Cathy Marston, Northern Ballet - Pippa Moore; Marguerite and Armand ch: Ashton, Mariinsky Ballet - Diana Vishneva and Xander Parish; Push Comes to Shove ch: Twyla Tharp, Mariinsky Ballet - Victor Caixeta; Canto de Ossanha ch: Joonhyuk, The Royal Ballet; Medusa ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Natalia Osipova and Matthew Ball; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet - Elena Yevseyeva and Victor Caixeta; Maria Khoreva; Mayerling ch: MacMillan, Stuttgart Ballet - Friedemann Vogel; Giselle, Abay Kazakh Ballet; The Birds ch: MacMillan, Central School of Ballet; My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, English National Ballet School; The Great Gatsby ch: David Nixon - Kevin Poeung and Ashley Dixon; Mayerling ch: MacMillan - Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen; The Two Pigeons, Paris Opera Ballet School; Dracula ch: David Nixon - Javier Torres and Antoinette Brooks-Daw; The Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Ballet - Xander Parish; YAGP New York, Grand Prix recipient - Gabriel Figueredo; Hummingbird ch: Liam Scarlett - San Francisco Ballet; Cinderella ch: Christopher Wheeldon - Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova; Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernández; Birthday Offering ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Fumi Kaneko; Coppélia ch: de Valois, The Royal Ballet - Gary Avis; YAGP Paris, Grand Prix recipient António Casalinho; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet, Chloë Réveillon; Dracula ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Kevin Poeung and Joseph Taylor; Paquita, Dutch National Ballet Academy - Emma Mardegan and Philippe Magdelijns; The Nutcracker, English National Ballet - Matthew Astley; The Firebird, The Royal Ballet - Yasmine Naghdi; Raymonda, pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand; Giselle, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Momoko Hirata and Cesar Morales; Giselle, Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa; Dada Masilo’s Giselle; Legend of Love, The Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa and Timur Askerov; Manon ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Francesca Hayward; Cinderella, Christopher Wheeldon, English National Ballet - Shale Wagman; Rasputin, Polunin Ink - Sergei Polunin and Johan Kobborg; Raymonda, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Powerhouse Rhumba ch: David Nixon - Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor; Bespoke ch: Stanton Welch, San Francisco Ballet - Angelo Greco; Spartacus ch: Grigorovich, Bolshoi Ballet - Anastasia Denisova and Denis Rodkin; A Month in the Country ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Swan Lake, Mariinsky Ballet - Oxana Skorik and Xander Parish; Boléro ch: Mats Ek, Paris Opera - Niklas Ek; The Red Shoes ch: Matthew Bourne, New Adventures - Ashley Shaw and Adam Cooper; Cinderella ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Ashley Dixon. © Emma Kauldhar 2019.

Photos of The Royal Ballet courtesy of the Royal Opera House.

Curtain Calls Dutch National Ballet, Gala, National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam

Mariinsky Ballet, Don Quixote, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Abay Kazakh Ballet, Rediscovering Bach/Boléro, Almaty

Paris Opera, Raymonda, Opera Bastille, Paris

Bolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote, Royal Opera House, London

Mariinsky Ballet, The Nutcracker and Marguerite and Armand Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

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Titel: Review 2019 - The Dance Year Text: A photographic collage recalling some of the wonderful dancers and ballets photographed by Dance Europe during the last 12 months. Photographs: The Nutcracker, Mariinsky Ballet - Kimin Kim and Maria Khoreva; Le Parc ch: Angelin Preljocaj- Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo; Beauty and The Beast ch: David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Delia Mathews and Tyrone Singleton; Yaoqian Shang; Faun ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Paris Opera - Juliette Hilaire and Marc Moreau; Les Noces ch: Pontus Lidberg, Paris Opera; Blue Moon ch: Aletta Collins, The Royal Ballet; Odissi Solo - Mavin Khoo; What is BirdGang? - BirdGang; Don Quixote pr: Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet - Marianela Nuñez; Swan Lake pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Germain Louvet and François Alu; Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet; Bon Voyage, Bob... ch: Alan Lucien Øyen - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Hotel - Cirque Éloize; Swan Lake, Dutch National Ballet - Maia Makhateli and Daniel Camargo; Le Reveil de Flore - Mariinsky Ballet; Frankenstein ch: Liam Scarlett, The Royal Ballet - Federico Bonelli and Wei Wang; Russian Ballet Icons Gala - Marcelino Sambé; Julian MacKay; Romeo and Juliet ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Lauren Cuthbertson; Victoria ch: Cathy Marston, Northern Ballet - Pippa Moore; Marguerite and Armand ch: Ashton, Mariinsky Ballet - Diana Vishneva and Xander Parish; Push Comes to Shove ch: Twyla Tharp, Mariinsky Ballet - Victor Caixeta; Canto de Ossanha ch: Joonhyuk, The Royal Ballet; Medusa ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Natalia Osipova and Matthew Ball; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet - Elena Yevseyeva and Victor Caixeta; Maria Khoreva; Mayerling ch: MacMillan, Stuttgart Ballet - Friedemann Vogel; Giselle, Abay Kazakh Ballet; The Birds ch: MacMillan, Central School of Ballet; My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, English National Ballet School; The Great Gatsby ch: David Nixon - Kevin Poeung and Ashley Dixon; Mayerling ch: MacMillan - Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen; The Two Pigeons, Paris Opera Ballet School; Dracula ch: David Nixon - Javier Torres and Antoinette Brooks-Daw; The Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Ballet - Xander Parish; YAGP New York, Grand Prix recipient - Gabriel Figueredo; Hummingbird ch: Liam Scarlett - San Francisco Ballet; Cinderella ch: Christopher Wheeldon - Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova; Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernández; Birthday Offering ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Fumi Kaneko; Coppélia ch: de Valois, The Royal Ballet - Gary Avis; YAGP Paris, Grand Prix recipient António Casalinho; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet, Chloë Réveillon; Dracula ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Kevin Poeung and Joseph Taylor; Paquita, Dutch National Ballet Academy - Emma Mardegan and Philippe Magdelijns; The Nutcracker, English National Ballet - Matthew Astley; The Firebird, The Royal Ballet - Yasmine Naghdi; Raymonda, pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand; Giselle, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Momoko Hirata and Cesar Morales; Giselle, Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa; Dada Masilo’s Giselle; Legend of Love, The Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa and Timur Askerov; Manon ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Francesca Hayward; Cinderella, Christopher Wheeldon, English National Ballet - Shale Wagman; Rasputin, Polunin Ink - Sergei Polunin and Johan Kobborg; Raymonda, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Powerhouse Rhumba ch: David Nixon - Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor; Bespoke ch: Stanton Welch, San Francisco Ballet - Angelo Greco; Spartacus ch: Grigorovich, Bolshoi Ballet - Anastasia Denisova and Denis Rodkin; A Month in the Country ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Swan Lake, Mariinsky Ballet - Oxana Skorik and Xander Parish; Boléro ch: Mats Ek, Paris Opera - Niklas Ek; The Red Shoes ch: Matthew Bourne, New Adventures - Ashley Shaw and Adam Cooper; Cinderella ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Ashley Dixon. © Emma Kauldhar 2019. Photos of The Royal Ballet courtesy of the Royal Opera House. Curtain Calls Dutch National Ballet, Gala, National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam Mariinsky Ballet, Don Quixote, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Abay Kazakh Ballet, Rediscovering Bach/Boléro, Almaty Paris Opera, Raymonda, Opera Bastille, Paris Bolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote, Royal Opera House, London Mariinsky Ballet, The Nutcracker and Marguerite and Armand Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Music - ‘An Orchestra’ licensed by Envato, Hochgeladen von: Dance Europe, https://ift.tt/35dstrR

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The 2018 Grammy Nominations Have Dropped — See The Full List!

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Can you believe it's almost time for the Grammys??

On Tuesday, The Recording Academy finally announced their full list of noms, and now we can finally see who will be up for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist.

So, who did get nominated for 2018?? Current frontrunners include JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Bruno Mars.

Ch-ch-check out the FULL nominations list (below)!

Record of the Year

"Redbone" — Childish Gambino "Despacito" — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber "The Story Of O.J." — JAY-Z "HUMBLE." — Kendrick Lamar "24K Magic" — Bruno Mars

Album of the Year

"Awaken, My Love!" — Childish Gambino 4:44 — JAY-Z DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar Melodrama — Lorde 24K Magic — Bruno Mars

Song of the Year

"Despacito" — Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi & Marty James Garton, songwriters (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber) "4:44" — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (JAY-Z) "Issues" — Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels & Justin Drew Tranter, songwriters (Julia Michaels) "1-800-273-8255" — Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury, Khalid Robinson, songwriters (Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid) "That's What I Like" — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best New Artist

Alessia Cara Khalid Lil Uzi Vert Julia Michaels SZA

Best Pop Solo Performance

"Love So Soft" — Kelly Clarkson "Praying" — Kesha "Million Reasons" — Lady Gaga "What About Us" — P!nk "Shape Of You" — Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

"Something Just Like This" ­— The Chainsmokers & Coldplay "Despacito" — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber "Thunder" — Imagine Dragons "Feel It Still" — Portugal. The Man "Stay" — Zedd & Alessia Cara

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

NOBODY BUT ME (DELUXE VERSION) Michael Bublé TRIPLICATE Bob Dylan IN FULL SWING Seth MacFarlane WONDERLAND Sarah McLachlan TONY BENNETT CELEBRATES 90 (Various Artists) Dae Bennett, Producer

Best Pop Vocal Album

KALEIDOSCOPE EP - Coldplay LUST FOR LIFE - Lana Del Rey EVOLVE - Imagine Dragons RAINBOW - Kesha JOANNE - Lady Gaga ÷ (DIVIDE) - Ed Sheeran

Best Dance Recording

BAMBRO KOYO GANDA - Bonobo Featuring Innov Gnawa, Bonobo, producer; Bonobo, mixer COLA - Camelphat & Elderbrook, Mike Di Scala, Elderbrook & David Whelan, producers; Mike Di Scala, Elderbrook & David Whelan, mixers ANDROMEDA - Gorillaz Featuring DRAM, Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Remi Kabaka & Anthony Khan, producers; Stephen Sedgwick, mixer TONITE LCD - Soundsystem, James Murphy, producer; James Murphy, mixer LINE OF SIGHT - Odesza Featuring WYNNE & Mansionair Clayton Knight & Harrison Mills, producers; Eric J Dubowsky, mixer

Best Dance/Electronic Album

Migration — Bonobo 3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk Mura Masa — Mura Masa A Moment Apart — Odesza What Now — Sylvan Esso

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

WHAT IF - The Jerry Douglas Band SPIRIT - Alex Han MOUNT ROYAL - Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge PROTOTYPE - Jeff Lorber Fusion BAD HOMBRE - Antonio Sanchez

Best Rock Performance

"You Want It Darker" — Leonard Cohen "The Promise" — Chris Cornell "Run" — Foo Fighters "No Good" — Kaleo "Go To War" — Nothing More

Best Metal Performance

INVISIBLE ENEMY - August Burns Red BLACK HOODIE - Body Count FOREVER - Code Orange SULTAN'S CURSE - Mastodon CLOCKWORKS - Meshuggah

Best Rock Song

Atlas, Rise! - James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, Songwriters (Metallica) Blood In The Cut - JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, Songwriters (K.Flay) Go To War - Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, Songwriters (Nothing More) Run - Foo Fighters, Songwriters (Foo Fighters) The Stage - Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, Songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold

Best Rock Album

Emperor Of Sand - Mastodon Hardwired...To Self-Destruct - Metallica The Stories We Tell Ourselves - Nothing More Villains - Queens Of The Stone Age A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs

Best Alternative Music Album

Everything Now - Arcade Fire Humanz - Gorillaz American Dream - LCD Soundsystem Pure Comedy - Father John Misty Sleep Well Beast - The National

Best R&B Performance

Get You - Daniel Caesar Featuring Kali Uchis Distraction - Kehlani High - Ledisi That's What I Like - Bruno Mars The Weekend - Sza

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Laugh And Move On - The Baylor Project Redbone - Childish Gambino What I'm Feelin' - Anthony Hamilton Featuring The Hamiltones All The Way - Ledisi Still - Mali Music

Best R&B Song

First Began - PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton) Location - Alfredo Gonzalez, Olatunji Ige, Samuel David Jiminez, Christopher Mcclenney, Khalid Robinson & Joshua Scruggs, Songwriters (Khalid) Redbone - Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, Songwriters (Childish Gambino) Supermodel - Tyran Donaldson, Terrence Henderson, Greg Landfair Jr., Solana Rowe & Pharrell Williams, Songwriters (Sza) That's What I Like -Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best Urban Contemporary Album

Free 6lack — 6lack "Awaken, My Love!" — Childish Gambino American Teen — Khalid Ctrl — SZA Starboy — The Weeknd

Best R&B Album

Freudian - Daniel Caesar Let Love Rule - Ledisi 24k Magic - Bruno Mars Gumbo - PJ Morton Feel The Real - Musiq Soulchild

Best Rap Performance

Bounce Back - Big Sean Bodak Yellow -Cardi B 4:44 - Jay-Z Humble. - Kendrick Lamar Bad And Boujee - Migos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert

Best Rap/Sung Performance

Prblms - 6lack Crew - Goldlink Featuring Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy Family Feud - Jay-Z Featuring Beyoncé Loyalty. - Kendrick Lamar Featuring Rihanna Love Galore - Sza Featuring Travis Scott

Best Rap Song

Bodak Yellow - Dieuson Octave, Klenord Raphael, Shaftizm, Jordan Thorpe, Washpoppin & J White, Songwriters (Cardi B) Chase Me - Judah Bauer, Brian Burton, Hector Delgado, Jaime Meline, Antwan Patton, Michael Render, Russell Simins & Jon Spencer, Songwriters (Danger Mouse Featuring Run The Jewels & Big Boi) Humble. - K. Duckworth, Asheton Hogan & M. Williams Ii, Songwriters (Kendrick Lamar) Sassy - E. Gabouer & M. Evans, Songwriters (Rapsody) The Story Of O.J. - Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, Songwriters (Jay-Z)

Best Rap Album

4:44 — JAY-Z DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar Culture — Migos Laila's Wisdom — Rapsody Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator

Best Country Solo Performance

Body Like A Back Road - Sam Hunt Losing You - Alison Krauss Tin Man - Miranda Lambert I Could Use A Love Song - Maren Morris Either Way - Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

It Ain't My Fault - Brothers Osborne My Old Man - Zac Brown Band You Look Good - Lady Antebellum Better Man - Little Big Town Drinkin' Problem - Midland

Best Country Song

Better Man - Taylor Swift, Songwriter (Little Big Town) Body Like A Back Road - Zach Crowell, Sam Hunt, Shane Mcanally & Josh Osborne, Songwriters (Sam Hunt) Broken Halos - Mike Henderson & Chris Stapleton, Songwriters (Chris Stapleton) Drinkin' Problem - Jess Carson, Cameron Duddy, Shane Mcanally, Josh Osborne & Mark Wystrach, Songwriters (Midland) Tin Man - Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall, Songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Album

Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney Heart Break — Lady Antebellum The Breaker — Little Big Town Life Changes — Thomas Rhett From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton

Best Music Video

UP ALL NIGHT Beck Canada, video director; Laura Serra Estorch & Oscar Romagosa, video producers MAKEBA Jain Lionel Hirle & Gregory Ohrel, video directors; Yodelice, video producer THE STORY OF O.J. JAY-Z Shawn Carter & Mark Romanek, video directors; Daniel Midgley, video producer HUMBLE. Kendrick Lamar The Little Homies & Dave Meyers, video directors; Jason Baum, Dave Free, Jamie Rabineau, Nathan K. Scherrer & Anthony Tiffith, video producers 1-800-273-8255 Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid Andy Hines, video director; Andrew Lerios, video producer

Best New Age Album

Reflection - Brian Eno Songversation: Medicine - India.Arie Dancing On Water - Peter Kater Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai, Volume 5 - Kitaro Spiral Revelation - Steve Roach

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Can't Remember Why Sara Caswell, Soloist - Track From: Whispers On The Wind (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge) Dance Of Shiva Billy Childs, Soloist - Track From: Rebirth Whisper Not - Fred Hersch, Soloist Miles Beyond - John Mclaughlin, Soloist - Track From: Live @ Ronnie Scott's (John Mclaughlin & The 4th Dimension) Ilimba - Chris Potter, Soloist - Track From: The Dreamer Is The Dream

Best Jazz Vocal Album

The Journey — The Baylor Project A Social Call — Jazzmeia Horn Bad Ass And Blind — Raul Midón Porter Plays Porter — Randy Porter Trio With Nancy King Dreams And Daggers — Cécile McLorin Salvant

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Uptown, Downtown - Bill Charlap Trio Rebirth - Billy Childs Project Freedom - Joey Defrancesco & The People Open Book - Fred Hersch The Dreamer Is The Dream -Chris Potter

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Monk'estra Vol. 2 - John Beasley Jigsaw - Alan Ferber Big Band Bringin' It - Christian Mcbride Big Band Homecoming - Vince Mendoza & Wdr Big Band Cologne Whispers On The Wind - Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge

Best Latin Jazz Album

Hybrido - From Rio To Wayne Shorter- Antonio Adolfo Oddara - Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Outra Coisa - The Music Of Moacir Santos - Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves Típico - Miguel Zenón Jazz Tango - Pablo Ziegler Trio

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Rise — Danny Gokey Echoes (Deluxe Edition) — Matt Maher Lifer — MercyMe Hills And Valleys — Tauren Wells Chain Breaker — Zach Williams

Best Gospel Album

Crossover — Travis Greene Bigger Than Me — Le'Andria Close — Marvin Sapp Sunday Song — Anita Wilson Let Them Fall In Love — Cece Winans

Best Roots Gospel Album

The Best Of The Collingsworth Family - Volume 1 - The Collingsworth Family Give Me Jesus - Larry Cordle Resurrection - Joseph Habedank Sing It Now: Songs Of Faith & Hope - Reba Mcentire Hope For All Nations - Karen Peck & New River

Best Gospel Performance/Song

"Too Hard Not To" - Tina Campbell; Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters "You Deserve It" - JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise Featuring Bishop Cortez Vaughn; David Bloom, JJ Hairston, Phontane Demond Reed & Cortez Vaughn, songwriters "Better Days" - Le'Andria "My Life" - The Walls Group; Warryn Campbell, Eric Dawkins, Damien Farmer, Damon Thomas, Ahjah Walls & Darrel Walls, songwriters "Never Have to Be Alone" - CeCe Winans; Dwan Hill & Alvin Love III, songwriters

Best Latin Pop Album

Lo Único Constante — Alex Cuba Mis Planes Son Amarte — Juanes Amar Y Vivir En Vivo Desde La Cuidad De México, 2017 — La Santa Cecilia Musas (Un Homenaje Al Folclore Latinoamericano En Manos De Los Macorinos) — Natalia Lafourcade El Dorado — Shakira

Best Tropical Latin Album

Albita - Albita Art Of The Arrangement - Doug Beavers Salsa Big Band -Ruben Blades Con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta Gente Valiente -Silvestre Dangond Indestructible -Diego El Cigala

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album

Ayo - Bomba Estereo Pa' Fuera - C4 Trío & Desorden Publico Salvavidas De Hielo - Jorge Drexler El Paradise - Los Amigos Invisibles Residente -Residente

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Ni Diablo Ni Santo - Julion Alvarez Y Su Norteno Banda Ayer Y Hoy - Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizarraga Momentos - Alex Campos Arriero Somos Versiones Acusticas - Aida Cuevas Zapateando En El Norte - Humberto Novoa, Producer (Various Artists)

Best Americana Album

Southern Blood — Gregg Allman Shine On Rainy Day — Brent Cobb Beast Epic — Iron & Wine The Nashville Sound — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Brand New Day — The Mavericks

Best American Roots Performance

"Killer Diller Blues" - Alabama Shakes "Let My Mother Live" - Blind Boys Of Alabama "Arkansas Farmboy" - Glen Campbell "Steer Your Way" - Leonard Cohen "I Never Cared For You" - Alison Krauss

Best American Roots Song

"Cumberland Gap" - David Rawlings & Gillian Welch, Songwriters (David Rawlings) "I Wish You Well" - Raul Malo & Alan Miller, Songwriters (The Mavericks) "If We Were Vampires" - Jason Isbell, Songwriter (Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit) "It Ain't Over Yet" - Rodney Crowell, Songwriter (Rodney Crowell Featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White) "My Only True Friend" - Gregg Allman & Scott Sharrard, Songwriters (Gregg Allman)

Best Children's Album

Brighter Side - Gustafer Yellowgold Feel What U Feel - Lisa Loeb Lemonade - Justin Roberts Rise Shine #Woke - Alphabet Rockers Songs of Peace & Love for Kids & Parents Around the World - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Best Spoken Word Album

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Confessions of a Serial Songwriter - Shelly Peiken Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders) - Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

Best Comedy Album

The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle Cinco — Jim Gaffigan Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman What Now? — Kevin Hart

Best Musical Theater Album

Come From Away - Ian Eisendrath, August Eriksmoen, David Hein, David Lai & Irene Sankoff, producers; David Hein & Irene Sankoff, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Dear Evan Hansen - Ben Platt, principal soloist; Alex Lacamoire, Stacey Mindich, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, producers; Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Hello, Dolly! - Bette Midler, principal soloist; Steven Epstein, producer (Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist) (New Broadway Cast Recording)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Baby Driver — (Various Artists) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 — (Various Artists) Hidden Figures: The Album — (Various Artists) La La Land — (Various Artists) Moana: The Songs — (Various Artists)

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Arrival — Johann Johannsson (composer) Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer (composer) Game of Thrones: Season 7 — Ramin Djawadi (composer) Hidden Figures — Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer (composers) La La Land — Justin Hurwitz (composer)

Best Song Written for Visual Media

"City Of Stars" — Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone), Track from La La Land "How Far I'll Go" — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli'i Cravalho), Track from Moana: The Songs "I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) — Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift, songwriters (ZAYN & Taylor Swift), Track from Fifty Shades Darker "Never Give Up" — Sia Furler & Gregg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia), Track from Lion "Stand Up For Something" — Common & Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common), Track from Marshall

Best Album Notes

Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With the Truth Wayne Bledsoe & Bradley Reeves, album notes writers (Various Artists) Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition Ted Olson, album notes writer (Various Artists) The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin Bryan S. Wright, album notes writer (Richard Dowling) Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute David Giovannoni, album notes writer (Various Artists) Live at the Whisky a Go Go: The Complete Recordings Lynell George, album notes writer (Otis Redding) Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams Michael Corcoran, album notes writer (Washington Phillips)

Best Historical Album

BOBO YEYE: BELLE EPOQUE IN UPPER VOLTA Jon Kirby, Florent Mazzoleni, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton & Maria Rice, mastering engineers (Various Artists) THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS - THE COMPLETE UNRELEASED RECORDING SESSIONS JUNE 1955 Robert Russ, compilation producer; Matthias Erb, Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Glenn Gould) LEONARD BERNSTEIN - THE COMPOSER Robert Russ, compilation producer; Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Leonard Bernstein) SWEET AS BROKEN DATES: LOST SOMALI TAPES FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA Nicolas Sheikholeslami & Vik Sohonie, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) WASHINGTON PHILLIPS AND HIS MANZARENE DREAMS Michael Corcoran, April G. Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Washington Phillips)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

EVERY WHERE IS SOME WHERE Brent Arrowood, Miles Comaskey, JT Daly, Tommy English, Kristine Flaherty, Adam Hawkins, Chad Howat & Tony Maserati, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (K.Flay) IS THIS THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT? Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies & Darrell Thorp, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Roger Waters) NATURAL CONCLUSION Ryan Freeland, engineer; Joao Carvalho, mastering engineer (Rose Cousins) NO SHAPE Shawn Everett & Joseph Lorge, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Perfume Genius) 24K MAGIC Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, engineers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer (Bruno Mars)

Producer of the Year — Non-classical

Calvin Harris No I.D. Greg Kurstin Blake Mills The Stereotypes

Producer of the Year - Classical

BLANTON ALSPAUGH • Adamo: Becoming Santa Claus (Emmanuel Villaume, Kevin Burdette, Keith Jameson, Lucy Schaufer, Hila Plitmann, Matt Boehler, Jonathan Blalock, Jennifer Rivera & Dallas Opera Orchestra) • Aldridge: Sister Carrie (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Matt Morgan, Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, Stephen Cunningham, Adriana Zabala, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra) • Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra) • Death & The Maiden (Patricia Kopatchinskaja & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra) • Handel: Messiah (Andrew Davis, Noel Edison, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Toronto Symphony Orchestra) • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 53, 64 & 96 (Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony) • Heggie: It's A Wonderful Life (Patrick Summers, William Burden, Talise Trevigne, Andrea Carroll, Rod Gilfry & Houston Grand Opera) • Tyberg: Masses (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale) MANFRED EICHER • Mansurian: Requiem (Alexander Liebreich, Florian Helgath, RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester) • Monk, M.: On Behalf Of Nature (Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble) • Point & Line - Debussy And Hosokawa (Momo Kodama) • Rímur (Arve Henriksen & Trio Mediaeval) • Silvestrov: Hieroglyphen Der Nacht (Anja Lechner) DAVID FROST • Alma Española (Isabel Leonard) • Amplified Soul (Gabriela Martinez) • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (Jonathan Biss) • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra) • Garden Of Joys And Sorrows (Hat Trick Trio) • Laks: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble) • Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) • Troika (Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O'Riley) • Verdi: Otello (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Günther Groissböck, Željko Lučić, Dimitri Pittas, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sonya Yoncheva, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus) MORTEN LINDBERG • Furatus (Ole Edvard Antonsen & Wolfgang Plagge) • Interactions (Bård Monsen & Gunnar Flagstad) • Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) • Minor Major (Oslo String Quartet) • Northern Timbre (Ragnhild Hemsing & Tor Espen Aspaas) • So Is My Love (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96) • Thoresen: Sea Of Names (Trond Schau) JUDITH SHERMAN • American Nocturnes (Cecile Licad) • The Birthday Party (Aki Takahashi) • Discovering Bach (Michelle Ross) • Foss: Pieces Of Genius (New York New Music Ensemble) • Secret Alchemy - Chamber Works By Pierre Jalbert (Curtis Macomber & Michael Boriskin) • Sevenfive - The John Corigliano Effect (Gaudette Brass) • Sonic Migrations - Music Of Laurie Altman (Various Artists) • Tribute (Dover Quartet) • 26 (Melia Watras & Michael Jinsoo Lim)

Best Remixed Recording

CAN'T LET YOU GO (LOUIE VEGA ROOTS MIX) Louie Vega, remixer (Loleatta Holloway) FUNK O' DE FUNK (SMLE REMIX) SMLE, remixers (Bobby Rush) UNDERCOVER (ADVENTURE CLUB REMIX) Leighton James & Christian Srigley, remixers (Kehlani) A VIOLENT NOISE (FOUR TET REMIX) Four Tet, remixer (The xx) YOU MOVE (LATROIT REMIX) Dennis White, remixer (Depeche Mode)

Best Orchestral Performance

CONCERTOS FOR ORCHESTRA - Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) COPLAND: SYMPHONY NO. 3; THREE LATIN AMERICAN SKETCHES - Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) DEBUSSY: IMAGES; JEUX & LA PLUS QUE LENTE - Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony) MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 5 - Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra) SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5; BARBER: ADAGIO - Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Best Surround Sound Album

EARLY AMERICANS Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Jim Anderson & Jane Ira Bloom, surround producers (Jane Ira Bloom) KLEIBERG: MASS FOR MODERN MAN Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra And Choir) SO IS MY LOVE Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96) 3-D THE CATALOGUE Fritz Hilpert, surround mix engineer; Tom Ammermann, surround mastering engineer; Fritz Hilpert, surround producer (Kraftwerk) TYBERG: MASSES Jesse Brayman, surround mix engineer; Jesse Brayman, surround mastering engineer; Blanton Alspaugh, surround producer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

DANIELPOUR: SONGS OF SOLITUDE & WAR SONGS Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) KLEIBERG: MASS FOR MODERN MAN Morten Lindberg, engineer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) SCHOENBERG, ADAM: AMERICAN SYMPHONY; FINDING ROTHKO; PICTURE STUDIES Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5; BARBER: ADAGIO Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) TYBERG: MASSES John Newton, engineer; Jesse Brayman, mastering engineer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Best Opera Recording

BERG: LULU Lothar Koenigs, conductor; Daniel Brenna, Marlis Petersen & Johan Reuter; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) BERG: WOZZECK Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms & Roman Trekel; Hans Graf, producer (Houston Symphony; Chorus Of Students And Alumni, Shepherd School Of Music, Rice University & Houston Grand Opera Children's Chorus) BIZET: LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES Gianandrea Noseda, conductor; Diana Damrau, Mariusz Kwiecień, Matthew Polenzani & Nicolas Testé; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) HANDEL: OTTONE George Petrou, conductor; Max Emanuel Cencic & Lauren Snouffer; Jacob Händel, producer (Il Pomo D'Oro) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: THE GOLDEN COCKEREL Valery Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Feliauer, Aida Garifullina & Kira Loginova; Ilya Petrov, producer (Mariinsky Orchestra; Mariinsky Chorus)

Best Choral Performance

BRYARS: THE FIFTH CENTURY Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet; The Crossing) HANDEL: MESSIAH Andrew Davis, conductor; Noel Edison, chorus master (Elizabeth DeShong, John Relyea, Andrew Staples & Erin Wall; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir) MANSURIAN: REQUIEM Alexander Liebreich, conductor; Florian Helgath, chorus master (Anja Petersen & Andrew Redmond; Münchener Kammerorchester; RIAS Kammerchor) MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Nigel Short, conductor (Tenebrae) TYBERG: MASSES Brian A. Schmidt, conductor (Christopher Jacobson; South Dakota Chorale)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

BUXTEHUDE: TRIO SONATAS, OP. 1 Arcangelo DEATH & THE MAIDEN Patricia Kopatchinskaja & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra DIVINE THEATRE - SACRED MOTETS BY GIACHES DE WERT Stile Antico FRANCK, KURTÁG, PREVIN & SCHUMANN Joyce Yang & Augustin Hadelich MARTHA ARGERICH & FRIENDS - LIVE FROM LUGANO 2016 Martha Argerich & Various Artists

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES Murray Perahia HAYDN: CELLO CONCERTOS Steven Isserlis; Florian Donderer, conductor (The Deutsch Kammerphilharmonie Bremen) LEVINA: THE PIANO CONCERTOS Maria Lettberg; Ariane Matiakh, conductor (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) SHOSTAKOVICH: VIOLIN CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 Frank Peter Zimmermann; Alan Gilbert, conductor (NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester) TRANSCENDENTAL Daniil Trifonov

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

BACH & TELEMANN: SACRED CANTATAS Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia; Freiburger Barockorchester) CRAZY GIRL CRAZY - MUSIC BY GERSHWIN, BERG & BERIO Barbara Hannigan (Orchestra Ludwig) GODS & MONSTERS Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist IN WAR & PEACE - HARMONY THROUGH MUSIC Joyce DiDonato; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo D'Oro) SVIRIDOV: RUSSIA CAST ADRIFT Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra & Style Of Five Ensemble)

Best Classical Compendium

BARBARA Alexandre Tharaud; Cécile Lenoir, producer HIGDON: ALL THINGS MAJESTIC, VIOLA CONCERTO & OBOE CONCERTO Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer KURTÁG: COMPLETE WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE & CHOIR Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor; Guido Tichelman, producer LES ROUTES DE L'ESCLAVAGE Jordi Savall, conductor; Benjamin Bleton, producer MADEMOISELLE: PREMIÈRE AUDIENCE - UNKNOWN MUSIC OF NADIA BOULANGER Lucy Mauro; Lucy Mauro, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

DANIELPOUR: SONGS OF SOLITUDE Richard Danielpour, composer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) HIGDON: VIOLA CONCERTO Jennifer Higdon, composer (Roberto Díaz, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) MANSURIAN: REQUIEM Tigran Mansurian, composer (Alexander Liebreich, Florian Helgath, RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester) SCHOENBERG, ADAM: PICTURE STUDIES Adam Schoenberg, composer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) ZHOU TIAN: CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA Zhou Tian, composer (Louis Langrée & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)

Best Music Film

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Andrew Dominik, video director; Dulcie Kellett & James Wilson, video producers LONG STRANGE TRIP - (The Grateful Dead) Amir Bar-Lev, video director; Alex Blavatnik, Ken Dornstein, Eric Eisner, Nick Koskoff & Justin Kreutzmann, video producers THE DEFIANT ONES - (Various Artists) Allen Hughes, video director; Sarah Anthony, Fritzi Horstman, Broderick Johnson, Gene Kirkwood, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Jerry Longarzo, Doug Pray & Steven Williams, video producers SOUNDBREAKING - (Various Artists) Maro Chermayeff & Jeff Dupre, video directors; Joshua Bennett, Julia Marchesi, Sam Pollard, Sally Rosenthal, Amy Schewel & Warren Zanes, video producers TWO TRAINS RUNNIN' - (Various Artists) Sam Pollard, video director; Benjamin Hedin, video producer

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta Tim Breen, art director (Various Artists) Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984 - 2014) Tom Hingston, art director (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds) May 1977: Get Show The Light Masaki Koike, art director (Grateful Dead) The Voyager Golden Record: 40TH Anniversary Edition Lawrence Azerrad, Timothy Daly & David Pescovitz, art directors (Various Artists) Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares Tim Breen, Benjamin Marra & Ken Shipley, art directors (Various Artists)

Best Recording Package

El Orisha de la Rosa -Claudio Roncoli & Cactus Taller, art directors (Magín Díaz) Mura Masa -Alex Crossan & Matt De Jong, art directors (Mura Masa) Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) -Sasha Barr, Ed Steed & Josh Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty) Sleep Well Beast -Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman & Andrea Trabucco-Campos, art directors (The National) Solid State - Gail Marowitz, art director (Jonathan Coulton)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

"Another Day of Sun" - Justin Hurwitz, arranger (La La Land Cast) "Every Time We Say Goodbye" - Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Clint Holmes Featuring Jane Monheit) "I Like Myself" - Joel McNeely, arranger (Seth MacFarlane) "I Loves You Porgy/ There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" -Shelly Berg, Gregg Field, Gordon Goodwin & Clint Holmes, arrangers (Clint Holmes Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater And The Count Basie Orchestra) "Putin" Randy Newman, arranger (Randy Newman)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella

"All Hat, No Saddle" - Chuck Owen, arranger (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge) "Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from Catch Me if You Can" - John Williams, arranger (John Williams) "Home Free (For Peter Joe)" - Nate Smith, arranger (Nate Smith) "Ugly Beauty/Pannonica" - John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley) "White Christmas" - Chris Walden, arranger (Herb Alpert)

Best Instrumental Composition

"Alkaline" - Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Le Boeuf Brothers & JACK Quartet) "Choros #3" - Vince Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne) "Home Free (For Peter Joe)"- Nate Smith, composer (Nate Smith) "Three Revolutions" - Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdés) "Warped Cowboy" - Chuck Owen, composer (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge)

Best World Music Album

Memoria De Los Sentidos - Vicente Amigo Para Mi - Buika Rosa Dos Ventos - Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration - Ladysmith Black Mambazo Elwan - Tinariwen

Best Reggae Album

Chronology - Chronixx Lost In Paradise - Common Kings Wash House Ting - J Boog Stony Hill - Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley Avrakedabra - Morgan Heritage

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Top Of The Mountain - Dwayne Dopsie And The Zydeco Hellraisers Ho'okena 3.0 - Ho'okena Kalenda - Lost Bayou Ramblers Miyo Kekisepa, Make A Stand [Live] - Northern Cree Pua Kiele Josh Tatofi

Best Folk Album

Mental Illness - Aimee Mann Semper Femina - Laura Marling The Queen Of Hearts - Offa Rex You Don't Own Me Anymore - The Secret Sisters The Laughing Apple - Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm - Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm Recorded Live In Lafayette -Sonny Landreth Tajmo - Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' Got Soul - Robert Randolph & The Family Band Live From The Fox Oakland - Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Traditional Blues Album

Migration Blues - Eric Bibb Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio Roll And Tumble - R.L. Boyce Sonny & Brownie's Last Train - Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones

Best Bluegrass Album

Fiddler's Dream - Michael Cleveland Laws Of Gravity - The Infamous Stringdusters Original - Bobby Osborne Universal Favorite - Noam Pikelny All The Rage - In Concert Volume One [Live] - Rhonda Vincent And The Rage

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The 2018 Grammy Nominations Have Dropped — See The Full List!

Can you believe it's almost time for the Grammys??

On Tuesday, The Recording Academy finally announced their full list of noms, and now we can finally see who will be up for Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best New Artist.

So, who did get nominated for 2018?? Current frontrunners include JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, and Bruno Mars.

Ch-ch-check out the FULL nominations list (below)!

Record of the Year

"Redbone" — Childish Gambino "Despacito" — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber "The Story Of O.J." — JAY-Z "HUMBLE." — Kendrick Lamar "24K Magic" — Bruno Mars

Album of the Year

"Awaken, My Love!" — Childish Gambino 4:44 — JAY-Z DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar Melodrama — Lorde 24K Magic — Bruno Mars

Song of the Year

"Despacito" — Ramón Ayala, Justin Bieber, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Erika Ender, Luis Fonsi & Marty James Garton, songwriters (Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber) "4:44" — Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, songwriters (JAY-Z) "Issues" — Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, Julia Michaels & Justin Drew Tranter, songwriters (Julia Michaels) "1-800-273-8255" — Alessia Caracciolo, Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, Arjun Ivatury, Khalid Robinson, songwriters (Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid) "That's What I Like" — Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best New Artist

Alessia Cara Khalid Lil Uzi Vert Julia Michaels SZA

Best Pop Solo Performance

"Love So Soft" — Kelly Clarkson "Praying" — Kesha "Million Reasons" — Lady Gaga "What About Us" — P!nk "Shape Of You" — Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

"Something Just Like This" ­— The Chainsmokers & Coldplay "Despacito" — Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee Featuring Justin Bieber "Thunder" — Imagine Dragons "Feel It Still" — Portugal. The Man "Stay" — Zedd & Alessia Cara

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

NOBODY BUT ME (DELUXE VERSION) Michael Bublé TRIPLICATE Bob Dylan IN FULL SWING Seth MacFarlane WONDERLAND Sarah McLachlan TONY BENNETT CELEBRATES 90 (Various Artists) Dae Bennett, Producer

Best Pop Vocal Album

KALEIDOSCOPE EP - Coldplay LUST FOR LIFE - Lana Del Rey EVOLVE - Imagine Dragons RAINBOW - Kesha JOANNE - Lady Gaga ÷ (DIVIDE) - Ed Sheeran

Best Dance Recording

BAMBRO KOYO GANDA - Bonobo Featuring Innov Gnawa, Bonobo, producer; Bonobo, mixer COLA - Camelphat & Elderbrook, Mike Di Scala, Elderbrook & David Whelan, producers; Mike Di Scala, Elderbrook & David Whelan, mixers ANDROMEDA - Gorillaz Featuring DRAM, Damon Albarn, Jamie Hewlett, Remi Kabaka & Anthony Khan, producers; Stephen Sedgwick, mixer TONITE LCD - Soundsystem, James Murphy, producer; James Murphy, mixer LINE OF SIGHT - Odesza Featuring WYNNE & Mansionair Clayton Knight & Harrison Mills, producers; Eric J Dubowsky, mixer

Best Dance/Electronic Album

Migration — Bonobo 3-D The Catalogue — Kraftwerk Mura Masa — Mura Masa A Moment Apart — Odesza What Now — Sylvan Esso

Best Contemporary Instrumental Album

WHAT IF - The Jerry Douglas Band SPIRIT - Alex Han MOUNT ROYAL - Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge PROTOTYPE - Jeff Lorber Fusion BAD HOMBRE - Antonio Sanchez

Best Rock Performance

"You Want It Darker" — Leonard Cohen "The Promise" — Chris Cornell "Run" — Foo Fighters "No Good" — Kaleo "Go To War" — Nothing More

Best Metal Performance

INVISIBLE ENEMY - August Burns Red BLACK HOODIE - Body Count FOREVER - Code Orange SULTAN'S CURSE - Mastodon CLOCKWORKS - Meshuggah

Best Rock Song

Atlas, Rise! - James Hetfield & Lars Ulrich, Songwriters (Metallica) Blood In The Cut - JT Daly & Kristine Flaherty, Songwriters (K.Flay) Go To War - Ben Anderson, Jonny Hawkins, Will Hoffman, Daniel Oliver, David Pramik & Mark Vollelunga, Songwriters (Nothing More) Run - Foo Fighters, Songwriters (Foo Fighters) The Stage - Zachary Baker, Brian Haner, Matthew Sanders, Jonathan Seward & Brooks Wackerman, Songwriters (Avenged Sevenfold

Best Rock Album

Emperor Of Sand - Mastodon Hardwired...To Self-Destruct - Metallica The Stories We Tell Ourselves - Nothing More Villains - Queens Of The Stone Age A Deeper Understanding - The War On Drugs

Best Alternative Music Album

Everything Now - Arcade Fire Humanz - Gorillaz American Dream - LCD Soundsystem Pure Comedy - Father John Misty Sleep Well Beast - The National

Best R&B Performance

Get You - Daniel Caesar Featuring Kali Uchis Distraction - Kehlani High - Ledisi That's What I Like - Bruno Mars The Weekend - Sza

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Laugh And Move On - The Baylor Project Redbone - Childish Gambino What I'm Feelin' - Anthony Hamilton Featuring The Hamiltones All The Way - Ledisi Still - Mali Music

Best R&B Song

First Began - PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton) Location - Alfredo Gonzalez, Olatunji Ige, Samuel David Jiminez, Christopher Mcclenney, Khalid Robinson & Joshua Scruggs, Songwriters (Khalid) Redbone - Donald Glover & Ludwig Goransson, Songwriters (Childish Gambino) Supermodel - Tyran Donaldson, Terrence Henderson, Greg Landfair Jr., Solana Rowe & Pharrell Williams, Songwriters (Sza) That's What I Like -Christopher Brody Brown, James Fauntleroy, Philip Lawrence, Bruno Mars, Ray Charles McCullough II, Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus & Jonathan Yip, songwriters (Bruno Mars)

Best Urban Contemporary Album

Free 6lack — 6lack "Awaken, My Love!" — Childish Gambino American Teen — Khalid Ctrl — SZA Starboy — The Weeknd

Best R&B Album

Freudian - Daniel Caesar Let Love Rule - Ledisi 24k Magic - Bruno Mars Gumbo - PJ Morton Feel The Real - Musiq Soulchild

Best Rap Performance

Bounce Back - Big Sean Bodak Yellow -Cardi B 4:44 - Jay-Z Humble. - Kendrick Lamar Bad And Boujee - Migos Featuring Lil Uzi Vert

Best Rap/Sung Performance

Prblms - 6lack Crew - Goldlink Featuring Brent Faiyaz & Shy Glizzy Family Feud - Jay-Z Featuring Beyoncé Loyalty. - Kendrick Lamar Featuring Rihanna Love Galore - Sza Featuring Travis Scott

Best Rap Song

Bodak Yellow - Dieuson Octave, Klenord Raphael, Shaftizm, Jordan Thorpe, Washpoppin & J White, Songwriters (Cardi B) Chase Me - Judah Bauer, Brian Burton, Hector Delgado, Jaime Meline, Antwan Patton, Michael Render, Russell Simins & Jon Spencer, Songwriters (Danger Mouse Featuring Run The Jewels & Big Boi) Humble. - K. Duckworth, Asheton Hogan & M. Williams Ii, Songwriters (Kendrick Lamar) Sassy - E. Gabouer & M. Evans, Songwriters (Rapsody) The Story Of O.J. - Shawn Carter & Dion Wilson, Songwriters (Jay-Z)

Best Rap Album

4:44 — JAY-Z DAMN. — Kendrick Lamar Culture — Migos Laila's Wisdom — Rapsody Flower Boy — Tyler, The Creator

Best Country Solo Performance

Body Like A Back Road - Sam Hunt Losing You - Alison Krauss Tin Man - Miranda Lambert I Could Use A Love Song - Maren Morris Either Way - Chris Stapleton

Best Country Duo/Group Performance

It Ain't My Fault - Brothers Osborne My Old Man - Zac Brown Band You Look Good - Lady Antebellum Better Man - Little Big Town Drinkin' Problem - Midland

Best Country Song

Better Man - Taylor Swift, Songwriter (Little Big Town) Body Like A Back Road - Zach Crowell, Sam Hunt, Shane Mcanally & Josh Osborne, Songwriters (Sam Hunt) Broken Halos - Mike Henderson & Chris Stapleton, Songwriters (Chris Stapleton) Drinkin' Problem - Jess Carson, Cameron Duddy, Shane Mcanally, Josh Osborne & Mark Wystrach, Songwriters (Midland) Tin Man - Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert & Jon Randall, Songwriters (Miranda Lambert)

Best Country Album

Cosmic Hallelujah — Kenny Chesney Heart Break — Lady Antebellum The Breaker — Little Big Town Life Changes — Thomas Rhett From A Room: Volume 1 — Chris Stapleton

Best Music Video

UP ALL NIGHT Beck Canada, video director; Laura Serra Estorch & Oscar Romagosa, video producers MAKEBA Jain Lionel Hirle & Gregory Ohrel, video directors; Yodelice, video producer THE STORY OF O.J. JAY-Z Shawn Carter & Mark Romanek, video directors; Daniel Midgley, video producer HUMBLE. Kendrick Lamar The Little Homies & Dave Meyers, video directors; Jason Baum, Dave Free, Jamie Rabineau, Nathan K. Scherrer & Anthony Tiffith, video producers 1-800-273-8255 Logic Featuring Alessia Cara & Khalid Andy Hines, video director; Andrew Lerios, video producer

Best New Age Album

Reflection - Brian Eno Songversation: Medicine - India.Arie Dancing On Water - Peter Kater Sacred Journey Of Ku-Kai, Volume 5 - Kitaro Spiral Revelation - Steve Roach

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Can't Remember Why Sara Caswell, Soloist - Track From: Whispers On The Wind (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge) Dance Of Shiva Billy Childs, Soloist - Track From: Rebirth Whisper Not - Fred Hersch, Soloist Miles Beyond - John Mclaughlin, Soloist - Track From: Live @ Ronnie Scott's (John Mclaughlin & The 4th Dimension) Ilimba - Chris Potter, Soloist - Track From: The Dreamer Is The Dream

Best Jazz Vocal Album

The Journey — The Baylor Project A Social Call — Jazzmeia Horn Bad Ass And Blind — Raul Midón Porter Plays Porter — Randy Porter Trio With Nancy King Dreams And Daggers — Cécile McLorin Salvant

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Uptown, Downtown - Bill Charlap Trio Rebirth - Billy Childs Project Freedom - Joey Defrancesco & The People Open Book - Fred Hersch The Dreamer Is The Dream -Chris Potter

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Monk'estra Vol. 2 - John Beasley Jigsaw - Alan Ferber Big Band Bringin' It - Christian Mcbride Big Band Homecoming - Vince Mendoza & Wdr Big Band Cologne Whispers On The Wind - Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge

Best Latin Jazz Album

Hybrido - From Rio To Wayne Shorter- Antonio Adolfo Oddara - Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Outra Coisa - The Music Of Moacir Santos - Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonçalves Típico - Miguel Zenón Jazz Tango - Pablo Ziegler Trio

Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Rise — Danny Gokey Echoes (Deluxe Edition) — Matt Maher Lifer — MercyMe Hills And Valleys — Tauren Wells Chain Breaker — Zach Williams

Best Gospel Album

Crossover — Travis Greene Bigger Than Me — Le'Andria Close — Marvin Sapp Sunday Song — Anita Wilson Let Them Fall In Love — Cece Winans

Best Roots Gospel Album

The Best Of The Collingsworth Family - Volume 1 - The Collingsworth Family Give Me Jesus - Larry Cordle Resurrection - Joseph Habedank Sing It Now: Songs Of Faith & Hope - Reba Mcentire Hope For All Nations - Karen Peck & New River

Best Gospel Performance/Song

"Too Hard Not To" - Tina Campbell; Tina Campbell & Warryn Campbell, songwriters "You Deserve It" - JJ Hairston & Youthful Praise Featuring Bishop Cortez Vaughn; David Bloom, JJ Hairston, Phontane Demond Reed & Cortez Vaughn, songwriters "Better Days" - Le'Andria "My Life" - The Walls Group; Warryn Campbell, Eric Dawkins, Damien Farmer, Damon Thomas, Ahjah Walls & Darrel Walls, songwriters "Never Have to Be Alone" - CeCe Winans; Dwan Hill & Alvin Love III, songwriters

Best Latin Pop Album

Lo Único Constante — Alex Cuba Mis Planes Son Amarte — Juanes Amar Y Vivir En Vivo Desde La Cuidad De México, 2017 — La Santa Cecilia Musas (Un Homenaje Al Folclore Latinoamericano En Manos De Los Macorinos) — Natalia Lafourcade El Dorado — Shakira

Best Tropical Latin Album

Albita - Albita Art Of The Arrangement - Doug Beavers Salsa Big Band -Ruben Blades Con Roberto Delgado & Orquesta Gente Valiente -Silvestre Dangond Indestructible -Diego El Cigala

Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album

Ayo - Bomba Estereo Pa' Fuera - C4 Trío & Desorden Publico Salvavidas De Hielo - Jorge Drexler El Paradise - Los Amigos Invisibles Residente -Residente

Best Regional Mexican Music Album (Including Tejano)

Ni Diablo Ni Santo - Julion Alvarez Y Su Norteno Banda Ayer Y Hoy - Banda El Recodo De Cruz Lizarraga Momentos - Alex Campos Arriero Somos Versiones Acusticas - Aida Cuevas Zapateando En El Norte - Humberto Novoa, Producer (Various Artists)

Best Americana Album

Southern Blood — Gregg Allman Shine On Rainy Day — Brent Cobb Beast Epic — Iron & Wine The Nashville Sound — Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit Brand New Day — The Mavericks

Best American Roots Performance

"Killer Diller Blues" - Alabama Shakes "Let My Mother Live" - Blind Boys Of Alabama "Arkansas Farmboy" - Glen Campbell "Steer Your Way" - Leonard Cohen "I Never Cared For You" - Alison Krauss

Best American Roots Song

"Cumberland Gap" - David Rawlings & Gillian Welch, Songwriters (David Rawlings) "I Wish You Well" - Raul Malo & Alan Miller, Songwriters (The Mavericks) "If We Were Vampires" - Jason Isbell, Songwriter (Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit) "It Ain't Over Yet" - Rodney Crowell, Songwriter (Rodney Crowell Featuring Rosanne Cash & John Paul White) "My Only True Friend" - Gregg Allman & Scott Sharrard, Songwriters (Gregg Allman)

Best Children's Album

Brighter Side - Gustafer Yellowgold Feel What U Feel - Lisa Loeb Lemonade - Justin Roberts Rise Shine #Woke - Alphabet Rockers Songs of Peace & Love for Kids & Parents Around the World - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Best Spoken Word Album

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry - Neil deGrasse Tyson Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Confessions of a Serial Songwriter - Shelly Peiken Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In (Bernie Sanders) - Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo The Princess Diarist - Carrie Fisher

Best Comedy Album

The Age Of Spin & Deep In The Heart Of Texas — Dave Chappelle Cinco — Jim Gaffigan Jerry Before Seinfeld — Jerry Seinfeld A Speck Of Dust — Sarah Silverman What Now? — Kevin Hart

Best Musical Theater Album

Come From Away - Ian Eisendrath, August Eriksmoen, David Hein, David Lai & Irene Sankoff, producers; David Hein & Irene Sankoff, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Dear Evan Hansen - Ben Platt, principal soloist; Alex Lacamoire, Stacey Mindich, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, producers; Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, composers/lyricists (Original Broadway Cast Recording) Hello, Dolly! - Bette Midler, principal soloist; Steven Epstein, producer (Jerry Herman, composer & lyricist) (New Broadway Cast Recording)

Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media

Baby Driver — (Various Artists) Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Awesome Mix Vol. 2 — (Various Artists) Hidden Figures: The Album — (Various Artists) La La Land — (Various Artists) Moana: The Songs — (Various Artists)

Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Arrival — Johann Johannsson (composer) Dunkirk — Hans Zimmer (composer) Game of Thrones: Season 7 — Ramin Djawadi (composer) Hidden Figures — Benjamin Wallfisch, Pharrell Williams & Hans Zimmer (composers) La La Land — Justin Hurwitz (composer)

Best Song Written for Visual Media

"City Of Stars" — Justin Hurwitz, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, songwriters (Ryan Gosling & Emma Stone), Track from La La Land "How Far I'll Go" — Lin-Manuel Miranda, songwriter (Auli'i Cravalho), Track from Moana: The Songs "I Don't Wanna Live Forever (Fifty Shades Darker) — Jack Antonoff, Sam Dew & Taylor Swift, songwriters (ZAYN & Taylor Swift), Track from Fifty Shades Darker "Never Give Up" — Sia Furler & Gregg Kurstin, songwriters (Sia), Track from Lion "Stand Up For Something" — Common & Diane Warren, songwriters (Andra Day Featuring Common), Track from Marshall

Best Album Notes

Arthur Q. Smith: The Trouble With the Truth Wayne Bledsoe & Bradley Reeves, album notes writers (Various Artists) Big Bend Killing: The Appalachian Ballad Tradition Ted Olson, album notes writer (Various Artists) The Complete Piano Works of Scott Joplin Bryan S. Wright, album notes writer (Richard Dowling) Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, Inventor of Sound Recording: A Bicentennial Tribute David Giovannoni, album notes writer (Various Artists) Live at the Whisky a Go Go: The Complete Recordings Lynell George, album notes writer (Otis Redding) Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams Michael Corcoran, album notes writer (Washington Phillips)

Best Historical Album

BOBO YEYE: BELLE EPOQUE IN UPPER VOLTA Jon Kirby, Florent Mazzoleni, Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton & Maria Rice, mastering engineers (Various Artists) THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS - THE COMPLETE UNRELEASED RECORDING SESSIONS JUNE 1955 Robert Russ, compilation producer; Matthias Erb, Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Glenn Gould) LEONARD BERNSTEIN - THE COMPOSER Robert Russ, compilation producer; Martin Kistner & Andreas K. Meyer, mastering engineers (Leonard Bernstein) SWEET AS BROKEN DATES: LOST SOMALI TAPES FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA Nicolas Sheikholeslami & Vik Sohonie, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Various Artists) WASHINGTON PHILLIPS AND HIS MANZARENE DREAMS Michael Corcoran, April G. Ledbetter & Steven Lance Ledbetter, compilation producers; Michael Graves, mastering engineer (Washington Phillips)

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

EVERY WHERE IS SOME WHERE Brent Arrowood, Miles Comaskey, JT Daly, Tommy English, Kristine Flaherty, Adam Hawkins, Chad Howat & Tony Maserati, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (K.Flay) IS THIS THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT? Nigel Godrich, Sam Petts-Davies & Darrell Thorp, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Roger Waters) NATURAL CONCLUSION Ryan Freeland, engineer; Joao Carvalho, mastering engineer (Rose Cousins) NO SHAPE Shawn Everett & Joseph Lorge, engineers; Patricia Sullivan, mastering engineer (Perfume Genius) 24K MAGIC Serban Ghenea, John Hanes & Charles Moniz, engineers; Tom Coyne, mastering engineer (Bruno Mars)

Producer of the Year — Non-classical

Calvin Harris No I.D. Greg Kurstin Blake Mills The Stereotypes

Producer of the Year - Classical

BLANTON ALSPAUGH • Adamo: Becoming Santa Claus (Emmanuel Villaume, Kevin Burdette, Keith Jameson, Lucy Schaufer, Hila Plitmann, Matt Boehler, Jonathan Blalock, Jennifer Rivera & Dallas Opera Orchestra) • Aldridge: Sister Carrie (William Boggs, Keith Phares, Matt Morgan, Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, Stephen Cunningham, Adriana Zabala, Florentine Opera Chorus & Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra) • Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra) • Death & The Maiden (Patricia Kopatchinskaja & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra) • Handel: Messiah (Andrew Davis, Noel Edison, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir & Toronto Symphony Orchestra) • Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 53, 64 & 96 (Carlos Kalmar & Oregon Symphony) • Heggie: It's A Wonderful Life (Patrick Summers, William Burden, Talise Trevigne, Andrea Carroll, Rod Gilfry & Houston Grand Opera) • Tyberg: Masses (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale) MANFRED EICHER • Mansurian: Requiem (Alexander Liebreich, Florian Helgath, RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester) • Monk, M.: On Behalf Of Nature (Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble) • Point & Line - Debussy And Hosokawa (Momo Kodama) • Rímur (Arve Henriksen & Trio Mediaeval) • Silvestrov: Hieroglyphen Der Nacht (Anja Lechner) DAVID FROST • Alma Española (Isabel Leonard) • Amplified Soul (Gabriela Martinez) • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 6 (Jonathan Biss) • Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra) • Garden Of Joys And Sorrows (Hat Trick Trio) • Laks: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble) • Schoenberg, Adam: American Symphony; Finding Rothko; Picture Studies (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) • Troika (Matt Haimovitz & Christopher O'Riley) • Verdi: Otello (Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Günther Groissböck, Željko Lučić, Dimitri Pittas, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Sonya Yoncheva, The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra & Chorus) MORTEN LINDBERG • Furatus (Ole Edvard Antonsen & Wolfgang Plagge) • Interactions (Bård Monsen & Gunnar Flagstad) • Kleiberg: Mass For Modern Man (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) • Minor Major (Oslo String Quartet) • Northern Timbre (Ragnhild Hemsing & Tor Espen Aspaas) • So Is My Love (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96) • Thoresen: Sea Of Names (Trond Schau) JUDITH SHERMAN • American Nocturnes (Cecile Licad) • The Birthday Party (Aki Takahashi) • Discovering Bach (Michelle Ross) • Foss: Pieces Of Genius (New York New Music Ensemble) • Secret Alchemy - Chamber Works By Pierre Jalbert (Curtis Macomber & Michael Boriskin) • Sevenfive - The John Corigliano Effect (Gaudette Brass) • Sonic Migrations - Music Of Laurie Altman (Various Artists) • Tribute (Dover Quartet) • 26 (Melia Watras & Michael Jinsoo Lim)

Best Remixed Recording

CAN'T LET YOU GO (LOUIE VEGA ROOTS MIX) Louie Vega, remixer (Loleatta Holloway) FUNK O' DE FUNK (SMLE REMIX) SMLE, remixers (Bobby Rush) UNDERCOVER (ADVENTURE CLUB REMIX) Leighton James & Christian Srigley, remixers (Kehlani) A VIOLENT NOISE (FOUR TET REMIX) Four Tet, remixer (The xx) YOU MOVE (LATROIT REMIX) Dennis White, remixer (Depeche Mode)

Best Orchestral Performance

CONCERTOS FOR ORCHESTRA - Louis Langrée, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra) COPLAND: SYMPHONY NO. 3; THREE LATIN AMERICAN SKETCHES - Leonard Slatkin, conductor (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) DEBUSSY: IMAGES; JEUX & LA PLUS QUE LENTE - Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony) MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 5 - Osmo Vänskä, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra) SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5; BARBER: ADAGIO - Manfred Honeck, conductor (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Best Surround Sound Album

EARLY AMERICANS Jim Anderson, surround mix engineer; Darcy Proper, surround mastering engineer; Jim Anderson & Jane Ira Bloom, surround producers (Jane Ira Bloom) KLEIBERG: MASS FOR MODERN MAN Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra And Choir) SO IS MY LOVE Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Nina T. Karlsen & Ensemble 96) 3-D THE CATALOGUE Fritz Hilpert, surround mix engineer; Tom Ammermann, surround mastering engineer; Fritz Hilpert, surround producer (Kraftwerk) TYBERG: MASSES Jesse Brayman, surround mix engineer; Jesse Brayman, surround mastering engineer; Blanton Alspaugh, surround producer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

DANIELPOUR: SONGS OF SOLITUDE & WAR SONGS Gary Call, engineer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) KLEIBERG: MASS FOR MODERN MAN Morten Lindberg, engineer (Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Trondheim Vokalensemble & Trondheim Symphony Orchestra) SCHOENBERG, ADAM: AMERICAN SYMPHONY; FINDING ROTHKO; PICTURE STUDIES Keith O. Johnson & Sean Royce Martin, engineers (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONY NO. 5; BARBER: ADAGIO Mark Donahue, engineer (Manfred Honeck & Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) TYBERG: MASSES John Newton, engineer; Jesse Brayman, mastering engineer (Brian A. Schmidt, Christopher Jacobson & South Dakota Chorale)

Best Opera Recording

BERG: LULU Lothar Koenigs, conductor; Daniel Brenna, Marlis Petersen & Johan Reuter; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra) BERG: WOZZECK Hans Graf, conductor; Anne Schwanewilms & Roman Trekel; Hans Graf, producer (Houston Symphony; Chorus Of Students And Alumni, Shepherd School Of Music, Rice University & Houston Grand Opera Children's Chorus) BIZET: LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES Gianandrea Noseda, conductor; Diana Damrau, Mariusz Kwiecień, Matthew Polenzani & Nicolas Testé; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) HANDEL: OTTONE George Petrou, conductor; Max Emanuel Cencic & Lauren Snouffer; Jacob Händel, producer (Il Pomo D'Oro) RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: THE GOLDEN COCKEREL Valery Gergiev, conductor; Vladimir Feliauer, Aida Garifullina & Kira Loginova; Ilya Petrov, producer (Mariinsky Orchestra; Mariinsky Chorus)

Best Choral Performance

BRYARS: THE FIFTH CENTURY Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet; The Crossing) HANDEL: MESSIAH Andrew Davis, conductor; Noel Edison, chorus master (Elizabeth DeShong, John Relyea, Andrew Staples & Erin Wall; Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Toronto Mendelssohn Choir) MANSURIAN: REQUIEM Alexander Liebreich, conductor; Florian Helgath, chorus master (Anja Petersen & Andrew Redmond; Münchener Kammerorchester; RIAS Kammerchor) MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Nigel Short, conductor (Tenebrae) TYBERG: MASSES Brian A. Schmidt, conductor (Christopher Jacobson; South Dakota Chorale)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

BUXTEHUDE: TRIO SONATAS, OP. 1 Arcangelo DEATH & THE MAIDEN Patricia Kopatchinskaja & The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra DIVINE THEATRE - SACRED MOTETS BY GIACHES DE WERT Stile Antico FRANCK, KURTÁG, PREVIN & SCHUMANN Joyce Yang & Augustin Hadelich MARTHA ARGERICH & FRIENDS - LIVE FROM LUGANO 2016 Martha Argerich & Various Artists

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

BACH: THE FRENCH SUITES Murray Perahia HAYDN: CELLO CONCERTOS Steven Isserlis; Florian Donderer, conductor (The Deutsch Kammerphilharmonie Bremen) LEVINA: THE PIANO CONCERTOS Maria Lettberg; Ariane Matiakh, conductor (Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin) SHOSTAKOVICH: VIOLIN CONCERTOS NOS. 1 & 2 Frank Peter Zimmermann; Alan Gilbert, conductor (NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester) TRANSCENDENTAL Daniil Trifonov

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

BACH & TELEMANN: SACRED CANTATAS Philippe Jaroussky; Petra Müllejans, conductor (Ann-Kathrin Brüggemann & Juan de la Rubia; Freiburger Barockorchester) CRAZY GIRL CRAZY - MUSIC BY GERSHWIN, BERG & BERIO Barbara Hannigan (Orchestra Ludwig) GODS & MONSTERS Nicholas Phan; Myra Huang, accompanist IN WAR & PEACE - HARMONY THROUGH MUSIC Joyce DiDonato; Maxim Emelyanychev, conductor (Il Pomo D'Oro) SVIRIDOV: RUSSIA CAST ADRIFT Dmitri Hvorostovsky; Constantine Orbelian, conductor (St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra & Style Of Five Ensemble)

Best Classical Compendium

BARBARA Alexandre Tharaud; Cécile Lenoir, producer HIGDON: ALL THINGS MAJESTIC, VIOLA CONCERTO & OBOE CONCERTO Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer KURTÁG: COMPLETE WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE & CHOIR Reinbert de Leeuw, conductor; Guido Tichelman, producer LES ROUTES DE L'ESCLAVAGE Jordi Savall, conductor; Benjamin Bleton, producer MADEMOISELLE: PREMIÈRE AUDIENCE - UNKNOWN MUSIC OF NADIA BOULANGER Lucy Mauro; Lucy Mauro, producer

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

DANIELPOUR: SONGS OF SOLITUDE Richard Danielpour, composer (Thomas Hampson, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) HIGDON: VIOLA CONCERTO Jennifer Higdon, composer (Roberto Díaz, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony) MANSURIAN: REQUIEM Tigran Mansurian, composer (Alexander Liebreich, Florian Helgath, RIAS Kammerchor & Münchener Kammerorchester) SCHOENBERG, ADAM: PICTURE STUDIES Adam Schoenberg, composer (Michael Stern & Kansas City Symphony) ZHOU TIAN: CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA Zhou Tian, composer (Louis Langrée & Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra)

Best Music Film

ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Andrew Dominik, video director; Dulcie Kellett & James Wilson, video producers LONG STRANGE TRIP - (The Grateful Dead) Amir Bar-Lev, video director; Alex Blavatnik, Ken Dornstein, Eric Eisner, Nick Koskoff & Justin Kreutzmann, video producers THE DEFIANT ONES - (Various Artists) Allen Hughes, video director; Sarah Anthony, Fritzi Horstman, Broderick Johnson, Gene Kirkwood, Andrew Kosove, Laura Lancaster, Michael Lombardo, Jerry Longarzo, Doug Pray & Steven Williams, video producers SOUNDBREAKING - (Various Artists) Maro Chermayeff & Jeff Dupre, video directors; Joshua Bennett, Julia Marchesi, Sam Pollard, Sally Rosenthal, Amy Schewel & Warren Zanes, video producers TWO TRAINS RUNNIN' - (Various Artists) Sam Pollard, video director; Benjamin Hedin, video producer

Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Bobo Yeye: Belle Epoque in Upper Volta Tim Breen, art director (Various Artists) Lovely Creatures: The Best of Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds (1984 - 2014) Tom Hingston, art director (Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds) May 1977: Get Show The Light Masaki Koike, art director (Grateful Dead) The Voyager Golden Record: 40TH Anniversary Edition Lawrence Azerrad, Timothy Daly & David Pescovitz, art directors (Various Artists) Warfaring Strangers: Acid Nightmares Tim Breen, Benjamin Marra & Ken Shipley, art directors (Various Artists)

Best Recording Package

El Orisha de la Rosa -Claudio Roncoli & Cactus Taller, art directors (Magín Díaz) Mura Masa -Alex Crossan & Matt De Jong, art directors (Mura Masa) Pure Comedy (Deluxe Edition) -Sasha Barr, Ed Steed & Josh Tillman, art directors (Father John Misty) Sleep Well Beast -Elyanna Blaser-Gould, Luke Hayman & Andrea Trabucco-Campos, art directors (The National) Solid State - Gail Marowitz, art director (Jonathan Coulton)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals

"Another Day of Sun" - Justin Hurwitz, arranger (La La Land Cast) "Every Time We Say Goodbye" - Jorge Calandrelli, arranger (Clint Holmes Featuring Jane Monheit) "I Like Myself" - Joel McNeely, arranger (Seth MacFarlane) "I Loves You Porgy/ There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" -Shelly Berg, Gregg Field, Gordon Goodwin & Clint Holmes, arrangers (Clint Holmes Featuring Dee Dee Bridgewater And The Count Basie Orchestra) "Putin" Randy Newman, arranger (Randy Newman)

Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella

"All Hat, No Saddle" - Chuck Owen, arranger (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge) "Escapades for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra from Catch Me if You Can" - John Williams, arranger (John Williams) "Home Free (For Peter Joe)" - Nate Smith, arranger (Nate Smith) "Ugly Beauty/Pannonica" - John Beasley, arranger (John Beasley) "White Christmas" - Chris Walden, arranger (Herb Alpert)

Best Instrumental Composition

"Alkaline" - Pascal Le Boeuf, composer (Le Boeuf Brothers & JACK Quartet) "Choros #3" - Vince Mendoza, composer (Vince Mendoza & WDR Big Band Cologne) "Home Free (For Peter Joe)"- Nate Smith, composer (Nate Smith) "Three Revolutions" - Arturo O'Farrill, composer (Arturo O'Farrill & Chucho Valdés) "Warped Cowboy" - Chuck Owen, composer (Chuck Owen And The Jazz Surge)

Best World Music Album

Memoria De Los Sentidos - Vicente Amigo Para Mi - Buika Rosa Dos Ventos - Anat Cohen & Trio Brasileiro Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration - Ladysmith Black Mambazo Elwan - Tinariwen

Best Reggae Album

Chronology - Chronixx Lost In Paradise - Common Kings Wash House Ting - J Boog Stony Hill - Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley Avrakedabra - Morgan Heritage

Best Regional Roots Music Album

Top Of The Mountain - Dwayne Dopsie And The Zydeco Hellraisers Ho'okena 3.0 - Ho'okena Kalenda - Lost Bayou Ramblers Miyo Kekisepa, Make A Stand [Live] - Northern Cree Pua Kiele Josh Tatofi

Best Folk Album

Mental Illness - Aimee Mann Semper Femina - Laura Marling The Queen Of Hearts - Offa Rex You Don't Own Me Anymore - The Secret Sisters The Laughing Apple - Yusuf / Cat Stevens

Best Contemporary Blues Album

Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm - Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm Recorded Live In Lafayette -Sonny Landreth Tajmo - Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo' Got Soul - Robert Randolph & The Family Band Live From The Fox Oakland - Tedeschi Trucks Band

Best Traditional Blues Album

Migration Blues - Eric Bibb Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio - Elvin Bishop's Big Fun Trio Roll And Tumble - R.L. Boyce Sonny & Brownie's Last Train - Guy Davis & Fabrizio Poggi Blue & Lonesome - The Rolling Stones

Best Bluegrass Album

Fiddler's Dream - Michael Cleveland Laws Of Gravity - The Infamous Stringdusters Original - Bobby Osborne Universal Favorite - Noam Pikelny All The Rage - In Concert Volume One [Live] - Rhonda Vincent And The Rage

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