Emmylou Harris and Evelyn Glennie win Polar Prize – Ultimahora.com

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The jury noted that “nobody in the history of the
 popular music has made harmonies as Emmylou Harris “whose music
 contains “the history and topography of the entire continent
 American. “

For Glennie, deaf since age twelve, stands
 which “has expanded our understanding of what music is and has shown us
 which is only partially through the ear hears “the body is
 “An echo chamber” that we live in “a world of
 Sounds “.

Harris, 67 years and since 2008 is part of Hall
 Fame Country Music, published more than 25 albums and sold 15 million
 disks in a four-decade in which he also won thirteen
 Grammy awards.

The Scottish Evelyn Glennie, 49, starred in 1992
 the first percussion recital in the history of the prestigious festival
 BBC Proms music and performed around the world with some of the most
 accredited conductors and orchestras, and recording thirty records.

In the UK has managed to change the criteria
 for admission to schools of music, highlights the failure.

Harris and Glennie happen in the honors award
 director Peter Sellars American scene and his compatriot, the musician
 Chuck Berry rock.

The award-winning receive the Polar, worth a million
 Swedish kronor ($ 118,000) from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden
 June 9 at a gala at the Stockholm Concert Hall.

The Polar Prize was created in 1989 by Stig Andersson,
 editor, composer and representative of Abba.

Since 1992 began to be granted, the Polar distinguished
 performers and B. B. King, Cyorgy Ligeti, Keith Jarrett, Bob Dylan, Ray
 Charles, Pierre Boulez, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, the group
 Pink Floyd, Dizzy Gillespie, Sony Rollins, Gilberto Gil, Ennio Morricone or
 Björk.