"For Your Consideration" The Grey Land, 64th GRAMMY® Awards

The Grey Land has been submitted in the first round of voting for the Grammy Awards!

Any NARAS voting members, please consider in your voting for the 64th GRAMMY® award nominations:

The Grey Land
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--Best Opera Recording
--Best Contemporary Classical Composition
--Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Rebecca L Hargrove, soprano
Kenneth Browning, narrator
Numinous, ensemble
Joseph C Phillips Jr, composer, conductor

“Joseph C. Phillips Jr.’s The Grey Land is a stirring, stylistically varied mono-opera that 
draws on its composer’s reflections on being Black in contemporary America.
— Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times "The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2020"

​"Mr. Phillips can be heard rendering these varied cultural signals into a heterogenous work of art — but one that has a coherence the world often lacks."
​— Seth Colter Walls, The New York Times, "In the Wake of Ferguson, a Style-Blurring Album"


"The Grey Land...[Joseph C Phillips Jr's] most ambitious, and possibly most important work yet."
— John Schaefer, New Sounds, "Top 10 of 2020" (#4)


"That the album arrives at yet another flashpoint in U.S. history elevates The Grey Land 
from a breakthrough piece to a necessary statement."
— Steve Smith, Night After Night


"Phillips conveys the sorrow, agony, rage and sheer exhaustion of the struggle 
while at the same time radiating a shared strength, beauty, and determination."
— Steph Power, BBC Music Magazine​ (4 out of 5 stars)


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