{"id":23571,"date":"2021-03-15T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/hi-lo\/?p=30000019097"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:20:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:20:49","slug":"camerata-singers-james-bass-wins-his-first-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/camerata-singers-james-bass-wins-his-first-grammy","title":{"rendered":"Camerata Singers&#8217; James Bass wins his first Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">James K. Bass, artistic director of Long Beach Camerata Singers, was sitting outside, near the back of a West Hollywood restaurant, noonish, when the six-time Grammy nominee found out he\u2019d just become a first-time winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bass won for Best Choral Performance for his work with the UCLA Chamber Choir, of which he is director, and JoAnn Falletta, music director of the Buffalo Philharmonic, in performance of Richard Danielpour\u2019s \u201cThe Passion of Yeshua.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Danielpour: The Passion of Yeshua\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/2fxQ8bGLAJ4pYysbXG6Ebm?highlight=spotify%3Atrack%3A7w1HMssyjhbs3GEg7uEcQ9&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This marked the third year that Bass had been nominated, garnering three this year to go along with two in 2012 and one in 2016. Still, he said something like this never gets old, admitting that he \u201cwas probably shaking for an hour,\u201d when he received news about this year\u2019s nominations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Of course, one thing that is new this year is that nominees couldn&#8217;t be present to listen to their names being read or pick up their trophies. So, Bass joined Camerata Singers President Jan Hower and several friends at Nora in West Hollywood to listen to the Grammy \u201cpre-show\u201d that traditionally announces awards for classical music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201c[James] brought a little speaker with him and we were listening and when we heard \u2018And the Grammy goes to Joanne Faletta \u2026\u2019 we didn\u2019t wait because we knew the next name was going to be James! We just started shouting \u2018He just won a Grammy! He just won a Grammy!\u2019\u201d said Hower, describing what can only be termed a quintessentially LA moment. \u201cEveryone in the restaurant was cheering and [the restaurant staff] brought us champagne. We might have gotten a little tipsy. It was wonderful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The award also had a quintessentially Long Beach feel to it given not only that Bass directs Camerata, but that Felletta is a former music director of the Long Beach Symphony. What\u2019s more, composer Danielpour and Bass will collaborate in November on a piece promoting reconciliation with words provided by former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And though it\u2019s just an honor to be nominated, and though it\u2019s nice to win in any category, Sunday\u2019s win was especially sweet for Bass since he will actually get to take one of the trophies home. Though literally hundreds worked on the project, just a few were actually mentioned in the nomination and Bass was one of them. So, one of the trophies will go to UCLA, another goes to Bass who has given no indication yet where intends to display it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He\u2019ll have time to think about it. Each Grammy is inscribed by one person, so Bass will have to wait about six weeks to receive his.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James K. 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