Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera)

30th Annual Grammy Awards1988

Honoring recordings released between October 1, 1986 – September 30, 1987

Robert Shaw, conductor won the 1988 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance (Other Than Opera) with "Hindemith: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd"

Winners & Nominees 1988

Winner
Nominees
  • Hindemith: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd

    Robert Shaw

  • Bach: St. John Passion (Album)

    John Eliot Gardiner, conductor

  • Copland: Old American Songs: Canticle Of Freedom; Four Motets (Album)

    Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Jerold D. Ottley, choral director

  • Janácek: Glagolitic Mass

    Lubomir Matl

  • Mahler: Symphony No. 8 In E Flat (Symphony Of A Thousand) (Album)

    Neville Creed

  • Tippett: A Child Of Our Time (Album)

    Laszlo Heltay

Previous Years

Year Winner Title
1991 Robert Shaw Walton: Belshazzar's Feast/Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Missa Brevis All Nominees
1990 Robert Shaw Britten: War Requiem All Nominees
1989 Robert Shaw Verdi: Requiem & Operatic Choruses All Nominees
1988 Robert Shaw Hindemith: When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloom'd All Nominees
1987 James Levine Orff: Carmina Burana All Nominees
1986 Robert Shaw Berlioz: Requiem All Nominees
1985 James Levine Brahms: A German Requiem All Nominees
1984 Georg Solti Haydn: The Creation All Nominees
1983 Georg Solti Berlioz: La Damnation De Faust All Nominees
1982 Neville Marriner Haydn: The Creation All Nominees
1978 Georg Solti, conductor; Margaret Hillis, choral director (Various Artists) Verdi: Requiem All Nominees
1977 Andre Previn, conductor; Arthur Oldham, choral director Rachmaninoff: The Bells All Nominees
1971 Gregg Smith Ives: New Music Of Charles Ives All Nominees
1969 Gregg Smith The Glory Of Gabrieli All Nominees
1965 Robert Shaw Britten: A Ceremony Of Carols All Nominees