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Grammy awards for excellence in every aspect of recording, from conducting a symphony to "engineering" a pop album, were awarded last week by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Among the winners in the classical field:
Album of the year-Horowitz at Carnegie Hall (Columbia), which was also voted the best-engineered classical recording and the best performance by an instrumental soloist.
Best orchestra performance-the American Symphony Orchestra (Leopold Stokowski conducting), in Ives's Symphony No. 4 (Columbia). The Ives symphony was also voted the best composition by a contemporary classical composer.
Best opera recording-Berg's Wozzcck, conducted by Karl Boehm (Deutsche Grammophon).
Best performance by a soloist with orchestra-Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven's Concerto No. 4 with the Boston Symphony, Erich Leinsdorf conducting (RCA Victor).
Best performance by a vocal soloist-Leontyne Price singing excerpts from Strauss's operas Salome and The Egyptian Helen, with the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf (RCA Victor).
Best chamber music performance-the Juilliard String Quartet playing Bartok's Six String Quartets (Columbia).
In the nonclassical categories:
Single record of the year-Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, playing A Taste of Honey (A & M).
Album of the year-Frank Sinatra's September of My Years (Reprise).
Best vocal performances-Barbra Streisand (My Name Is Barbra, Columbia) and Frank Sinatra (on the single record, It Was a Very Good Year, Reprise).
Best new artist-Tom Jones (Parrot).
Best jazz performance-For a small group, the Ramsey Lewis Trio's The 'In' Crowd (Cadet); and for a large group, the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Ellington '66 (Reprise).
Best rock 'n' roll single-Roger Miller's King of the Road (Smash), also voted the best single song, and male vocal performance in the country and western category.
Best folk recording-An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (RCA Victor).
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen Maclnnes. This is Master Spy writer Maclnnes1 13th book-and it continues her tradition of bestsellers. As usual, her hero, armed only with good manners and innocence, is thrown up against a diabolical and murderous gang of international spies in a first-rate suspense tale.
BRET HARTE, by Richard O'Connor. Although his collected works fill 20 volumes, Harte (1836-1902) is best remembered today for a couple of short stories and one humorous poem. Biographer O'Connor gives Harte his due both as a literary figure and as a silken-mustached rascal, who snubbed his friends and was once feelingly described by Mark Twain as a coward, a liar, a swindler, a born loafer and an s.o.b.
THE SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. Once again Black Humorist Donleavy (Ginger Man) proves that he can make something of nothing-in this case a non-hero who has worn out his Viennese psychiatrist and baffled a predatory countess and a girl tourist in his Kafkaesque progress to nothingness.