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Local Artists Take Home Grammy Awards

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Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its 2014-2015 season. (Marco Borggreve)
Andris Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in its 2014-2015 season. (Marco Borggreve)

For the second year in a row, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is celebrating a Grammy Award. At last night's award ceremony, the orchestra took home the award for Best Orchestral Performance for "Shostakovich Under Stalin's Shadow: Symphonies 5, 8 and 9." Lori McKenna also took home an award for Best Country Music Song for writing Tim McGraw's country anthem "Humble and Kind."

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Tim Riley, music critic and professor of journalism at Emerson College. He tweets @triley60.

This segment aired on February 13, 2017.

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