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Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance, Operatic or Choral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (168 words) |
 | The equivalent award, Best Classical Performance - Opera Cast or Choral was awarded in 1960. |
 | Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year. |
 | Roger Wagner (choir director) and the Roger Wagner Chorale for Virtuoso |
| Wikipedia: Grammy Award (375 words) |
 | The Grammy Award is presented by the Recording Academy, an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry, for outstanding achievements in musical recordings. |
 | The awards are named for the trophy given for them, a small gilded stauette of a gramophone. |
 | The Grammy voters tend to be elderly, musically conservative, and are heavily marketed to by record companies, who place great stock in some types of artists winning Grammys (accurately but cynically put as those which sell to "teenage girls and housewives"). |