BOSTON — The Boston Symphony Orchestra is rhapsodizing over winning the Grammy award for best orchestral performance Monday.
The symphony and musical director Andris Nelsons won the orchestral performance prize for "Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow," which features Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 and the Passacaglia from "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk." It was the orchestra's first recording in a new partnership with the Deutsche Grammophon label, and its seventh Grammy overall.
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is describing current GOP calls to let the next president make a Supreme Court nomination "obstructionism," but in 2007 Schumer said, "I will do everything in my power to prevent one more ideological ally from joining (Justices John) Roberts and (Samuel) Alito," and recommended the Senate, "should not confirm any Bush nominee to the Supreme Court except in extraordinary circumstances."
"The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance," Schumer told the American Constitution Society on July 27, 2007.
