{"id":92,"date":"2014-05-01T19:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/?p=92"},"modified":"2019-02-11T19:27:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:27:18","slug":"tech-alumnus-wins-producer-of-the-year-grammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/visions\/tech-alumnus-wins-producer-of-the-year-grammy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech alumnus wins Producer of the Year Grammy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Megan Trotter, Herald-Citizen<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Blanton Alspaugh<\/strong> \u201881 of Boston, studied music education at Tech before moving on to get his master\u2019s degree in orchestral conducting.<\/p>\n<p>From there, he worked in radio and recording everywhere from Houston, to Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, to Boston.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s currently the senior producer of the recording company Soundmirror \u2013 and a Grammy winner.<\/p>\n<p>Alspaugh had been nominated a dozen times, but 2013 was his first win. When he was officially named Producer of the Year in the Classical Category, he was hard at work with the Detroit Symphony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had my phone off and was working on getting the symphony recording finished. When we finished it, I turned my phone back on and I had a whole bunch of messages, of course, telling me I\u2019d won,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In order to be nominated, the person must be a producer, engineer or musician on a certain number of recordings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce you do that, you\u2019re a part of the pool of members who gets to vote on the Grammys,\u201d Alspaugh said. \u201cSo every year there\u2019s a period in which we submit all the recordings that we\u2019ve made. Out of that process comes the ballot that goes out to all the voting members and everybody votes for up to five recordings in each of the categories in which there\u2019s an award.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who get the most votes become the nominees and the ballots are sent out for a second round of voting to determine the final winners. In 2013, Alspaugh was awarded the Grammy for his production work on these pieces:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cChamber Symphonies,\u201d performed by Gregory Wolynec and the Gateway Chamber Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDavis: R\u00edo De Sangre,\u201d performed by Jospeh Rescigno, Vale Rideout, Ava Pine, John Duykers, Kerry Walsh, Guido LeBron, The Florentine Opera Company and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGjeilo: Northern Lights,\u201d performed by Charles Bruffy and the Phoenix Chorale<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn Paradisum,\u201d performed by Brian A. Schmidt and the South Dakota Chorale<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLife &amp; Breath \u2013 Choral Works by Ren\u00e9 Clausen,\u201d performed by Charles Bruffy and the Kansas City Chorale<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMusic for a Time of War,\u201d performed by Carlos Kalmar and the Oregon Symphony<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMusto: The Inspector,\u201d performed by Glen Cortese and the Wolf Trap Opera Company<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several of the albums were nominated in other categories as well. \u201cThe recordings got quite a bit of recognition,\u201d Alspaugh said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Megan Trotter, Herald-Citizen Blanton Alspaugh \u201881 of Boston, studied music education at Tech before moving on to get his master\u2019s degree in orchestral conducting. From there, he worked in radio and recording everywhere from Houston, to Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles, to Boston. 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