#sean tilson

[holly-mckenzie]

Elyes Gabel as Sean Tilson

Suspicion 1.04  › The Devil You Know

[suspiciondaily]

Yeah, with lots of windows. I know.

[weak-hero]

woman: *is ruthless and aggressive*

Sean Tilson (an international assassin): i think we’ll get along just fine

[ragazzadellearance]

The thing that pisses me off about the finale is that they played the fact that Leo gets away with.. everything like some kind of victory when all I see is the rich kid who's had every privilege in life not paying the consequences of his actions, I mean people have died, and no other character even points out how hypocritical it is on his part to demand the truth and accountability from the "rich" and then just let some randos take the blame (i did enjoy Natalie telling him to just go to therapy though)

I guess it does set up an interesting dynamic for season 2, though, with his mother knowing and all so silver lining I guess??

Also why tf did they have Sean reappearing to just incapacitate Eddie, tie Leo up and then disappear again?! What was that for??

[kaceyrps]

ELYES GABEL in SUSPICION

1.01

[mgx0]

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[blacklister214]

Suspicion: So Close and Yet So Far

 Having just finished Suspicion on Apple TV I find myself very frustrated because it really was so close to being a good show. 

Good pacing, good casting, good general plot, and good characters established on 4/5 of the main suspects. Now I comes the part where I rant about missed opportunities and poor choices, and WTF mistakes.

SPOILERS below

1) Sean Tilson. It felt to me that Sean’s character was being written by two different people with opposite intentions for him. Somebody wants him to be an anti-hero. The person had him standing up for the flight attendant, visiting with his Grandpa, sharing tragic backstory, not killing Natalie at the drop, not violently reacting to Natalie attacking him, and not letting the rendition team do whatever to the gang. The other person was writing a psycho, blowing up the married woman he’s been sleeping with, extremely violently stealing a motorcycle, and straight-up murdering an innocent bystander for his car. To me, criminal with a code was clearly the way to go. It makes the him bringing all of them along to the US plausible before the whole “he was secretly delivering them to the rendition team.” It allows for him to bond with the group, which informs his decision not to sell the gang out. It allows for a stronger connection to Tara, making her part in the scheme to frame him have more of an impact. It also gives you options in the finale about how his presence may change the outcome.

2) Why were they suspects again? Was it literally just the kidnappers wore the royal family masks and they were British citizens at the hotel? They had connections to the company yes, but so did half the hotel. The British thing was handed to them by the kidnappers. That the police thought was enough to arrest a bride in the middle of her wedding? Really? If they’d been wearing Hitler masks would they have rounded up the German citizens? Sean, fine he’s a known merc on the scene of the crime. Yes, Natalie’s being there is coincidental, a possibly merits an interview, but an arrest? Give me a break. Aedesh’s presence is not strange on his end. He is desperately trying to build his company. Copeland having the interview at all is what’s weird. 

3) Why did Copeland try to kill Tilson? He hired the mercenaries (Tillman’s group) to find Leo. Those were not non-lethal, sedate to interrogate methods. How can Tillman’s boss get answers from a dead man? He is the most likely candidate to be involved after all.   

4) Why interrogate the suspects like that at an airfield? You can hustle them onto a plane and interrogate there, which is far more secure.     

5) How did those “appearance changes” pass Tilson’s inspection? Eddie looked different, nobody else did. Aedesh didn’t even shave his beard. No one died their hair.

6) How is it possible that even in the hotel where the kidnapping took place no one recognized two of the suspects at the check-in desk. Also why not send Eddie? He had the pixelated face after all.  

7) Cresswell turned himself in rather than the police finding him. Coincidence or part of Tara’s plan? If plan of Tara’s plan then a risk, seeing as her father isn’t super stable. If not, then too much of a coincidence. The police should have at least had the win of finding him.

8) Cresswell’s tragedy also might have played better if they’d made Tara’s mother older than 18, and actually married to Cresswell. Weird that she was his one and only love, yet they were together at least three years, had a kid, and they didn’t even manage a courthouse wedding. 

9) Tara’s Plan is unclear and off brand. She made it sound like she was planning on letting the other three swing with her. Not really on brand with “Tell the Truth” mantra. Her rationalizations for why they deserved to be smeared with lies was weak. Sean doing shifty deeds I’d buy, but they needed to be enumerated. Him being the one who took Daisy would have worked. Natalie deserved it because why? She was their financial manager? Was she moving bribe money? More specifics necessary. Aedesh was the weakest of all. He deserves to go to jail for kidnapping for NOT committing a crime? For wanting a cybersecurity job with a PR company. They ALL deserve a worse fate than the woman who actually broke up her family, destroyed her father, and helped deny climate change to calamitous effect on the world?

10) How was Tara planning on handling Eddie? She knew he was a cop. The Police would believe him. She was confessing the plan to him. She had no blackmail material on him. Was she going to kill him if Dios ex Sean didn’t show up?

11) Why would Aedesh run with Tara after any of it? She did nothing to redeem herself. She deliberately stuck him in this shit because he didn’t commit hacktivism.  

12) How is Eddie alive? Did Sean mean for him to survive? Why? 

13) Eddie is alive and communicating. Why isn’t he yelling from the rooftops what actually happened? 

A few tweaks and this show was fixed:

1) Anti-hero Sean. Non-lethal force while stealing vehicles. No murdering married lovers.

2) Tara’s and Leo’s plans should not have aligned. In her version once they draw out the Katherine’s confession, she and Leo confess to faking the kidnapping. Simple, on brand, about the Truth. Sean serves as the temporary decoy and she even plans to clear him in the end. 

Leo and company should have been the ones to set up everyone else, with the plan in place to have Tara and the others take the fall. Leo is about the re-branding, not the truth. He could have been planning on staging a kidnapper falling out, Tara having a crisis of conscience killing the others then herself. Sean saves then day, and they all escape together, setting up S2.

[fromthe-point]

Toronto, ON – The Ontario Hockey League today announced the finalists for seven of the league’s major awards for the 2018-19 regular season.

2018-19 OHL Awards Finalists:

Rookie of the Year / Emms Family Award Finalists: Quinton Byfield (Sudbury Wolves) Jamie Drysdale (Erie Otters) Cole Perfetti (Saginaw Spirit) Jacob Perreault (Sarnia Sting) Marco Rossi (Ottawa 67’s) Tyler Tullio (Oshawa Generals)

Overage Player of the Year / Leo Lalonde Memorial Trophy Finalists: Justin Brazeau (North Bay Battalion) Sean Durzi (Guelph Storm) Tye Felhaber (Ottawa 67’s) Kevin Hancock (London Knights) Mac Hollowell (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds) Brandon Saigeon (Oshawa Generals)

Most Sportsmanlike Player of the Year / William Hanley Trophy Finalists: Cole Carter (Mississauga Steelheads) Joseph Garreffa (Kitchener Rangers) Ryan McGregor (Sarnia Sting) Allan McShane (Oshawa Generals) Nick Suzuki (Guelph Storm) Ryan Suzuki (Barrie Colts)

Coach of the Year / Matt Leyden Trophy Finalists: John Dean (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds) Dale Hunter (London Knights) Chris Lazary (Saginaw Spirit) Cory Stillman (Sudbury Wolves) Andre Tourigny (Ottawa 67’s) Greg Walters (Oshawa Generals)

Goaltender of the Year Award Finalists: Cedrick Andree (Ottawa 67’s) Kyle Keyser (Oshawa Generals) Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen (Sudbury Wolves) Ivan Prosvetov (Saginaw Spirit) Joseph Raaymakers (London Knights) Matthew Villalta (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds)

Defenceman of the Year / Max Kaminsky Trophy Finalists: Evan Bouchard (London Knights) Declan Chisholm (Peterborough Petes) Thomas Harley (Mississauga Steelheads) Noel Hoefenmayer (Ottawa 67’s) Mac Hollowell (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds) Bode Wilde (Saginaw Spirit)

Most Outstanding Player of the Year / Red Tilson Trophy Finalists: Barrie – Tyler Tucker Erie – Chad Yetman Flint – Ty Dellandrea Guelph – Nate Schnarr Hamilton – Arthur Kaliyev Kingston – Ryan Cranford Kitchener – Riley Damiani London – Kevin Hancock Mississauga – Cole Carter Niagara – Jason Robertson North Bay – Justin Brazeau Oshawa – Kyle Keyser Ottawa – Tye Felhaber Owen Sound – Trent Bourque Peterborough – Hunter Jones Saginaw – Owen Tippett Sarnia – Ryan McGregor Sault Ste. Marie – Morgan Frost Sudbury – Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen Windsor – Tyler Angle

The 2019 OHL Awards Ceremony takes place on Wednesday June 5 at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, however award recipients will be announced periodically throughout the remainder of the 2019 OHL Playoffs.  Additional player awards to be announced include Humanitarian of the Year, Academic Players of the Year, and the 2018-19 Mickey Renaud Captain’s Trophy recipient.

[holly-mckenzie]

I'm coming with you. No way. You owe me. Actually, I'd say we're even. And given the fact that I'm armed, I'd quit while you're ahead. I can help you. There's more money... 100K. Maybe I'll just torture you till you transfer the money. Do I look like I care about dying? 

Natalie Thompson and Sean Tilson in Suspicion, S1E5, "What Does a Kidnapper Look Like?"

[worldfoodbooks]

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[deathonyourtongue]

What Sean Bean is to Dying...Pt. 2

Recently, while watching 13 Hours for the millionth time, I noticed a common thread in many of Pablo’s roles.

What Sean Bean is to dying in movies, Pablo is to playing guys in the military. Don’t believe me? Check it out.

There are some roles I wasn’t able to find pictures for. If I do end up finding them later on, I’ll add them under their placeholder. If a rank is left out, it’s because I either couldn’t find it, or because the character is no longer active in the military.

Fort Bliss - SSgt Donovan (2014)

The Brink - LtCdr. Zeke “Z-Pak” Tilson (2015)

13 Hours - Kris “Tanto” Paranto (2016)

Thumper - Wyatt Rivers (2017)

Den of Thieves - Ray Merrimen (2018)

Also, if you don’t think this trend is continuing, just bear in mind that in Skyscraper, we’ve already seen him in camo (albeit FBI camo), and in First Man, he plays Jim Lovell, who was a Captain in the Navy.

[bongaboi]

59th Annual Grammy Awards Winners Part 3

Notes

Best Album Notes

Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Along

The Complete Monument & Columbia Albums Collection

The Knoxville Sessions, 1929–1930: Knox County Stomp

Ork Records: New York, New York

Waxing The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & The Phonograph, 1890–1990

Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle)

Mikal Gilmore, album notes writer (Kris Kristofferson)

Ted Olson & Tony Russell, album notes writers (Various Artists)

Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, album notes writers (Various Artists)

Richard Martin, album notes writer (Various Artists)

Historical

Best Historical Album

The Cutting Edge 1965–1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Collector's Edition)

Music of Morocco from the Library of Congress: Recorded By Paul Bowles, 1959

Ork Records: New York, New York

Vladimir Horowitz: The Unreleased Live Recordings 1966–1983

Waxing The Gospel: Mass Evangelism & the Phonograph, 1890–1990

Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Mark Wilder, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan)

April G. Ledbetter, Steven Lance Ledbetter, Bill Nowlin & Philip D. Schuyler, compilation producers; Rick Fisher & Michael Graves, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Rob Sevier & Ken Shipley, compilation producers; Jeff Lipton & Maria Rice, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Bernard Horowitz, Andreas K. Meyer & Robert Russ, compilation producers; Andreas K. Meyer & Jeanne Montalvo, mastering engineers (Vladimir Horowitz)

Michael Devecka, Meagan Hennessey & Richard Martin, compilation producers; Michael Devecka, David Giovannoni, Michael Khanchalian & Richard Martin, mastering engineers (Various Artists)

Engineered Album

Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Blackstar

Are You Serious

Dig In Deep

Hit N Run Phase Two

Undercurrent

David Bowie, Tom Elmhirst, Kevin Killen & Tony Visconti, engineers; Joe LaPorta, mastering engineer (David Bowie)

Tchad Blake & David Boucher, engineers; Bob Ludwig, mastering engineer (Andrew Bird)

Ryan Freeland, engineer; Kim Rosen, mastering engineer (Bonnie Raitt)

Booker T., Dylan Dresdow, Chris James, Prince & Justin Stanley, engineers; Dylan Dresdow, mastering engineer (Prince)

Shani Gandhi & Gary Paczosa, engineers; Paul Blakemore, mastering engineer (Sarah Jarosz)

Best Engineered Album, Classical

The Ghosts of Versailles

Dutilleux: Sur le même accord; Les Citations; Mystère de l'instant & Timbres, espace, mouvement

Reflections

Shadow of Sirius

Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

Mark Donahue, Fred Vogler & David L Williams, engineers (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Orchestra)

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, engineers (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

Morten Lindberg, engineer (Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene)

Silas Brown & David Frost, engineers; Silas Brown

Shawn Murphy & Nick Squire, engineers; Tim Martyn, mastering engineer (Andris Nelsons & Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Producer

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Greg Kurstin

Benny Blanco

Max Martin

Nineteen85

Ricky Reed

"Cheap Thrills" (Sia featuring Sean Paul)

"Hello" (Adele)

Love You to Death (Tegan and Sara)

"Million Years Ago" (Adele)

"Something in the Way You Move" (Ellie Goulding)

"Water Under the Bridge" (Adele)

"Cold Water" (Major Lazer featuring Justin Bieber & MØ)

"Friends" (Francis and the Lights featuring Bon Iver)

"Kill Em with Kindness" (Selena Gomez)

"Love Yourself" (Justin Bieber)

"Luv" (Tory Lanez)

"Wild Love" (Cashmere Cat featuring The Weeknd & Francis and the Lights)

"Can't Stop the Feeling!" (Justin Timberlake)

"Dangerous Woman" (Ariana Grande)

"Into You" (Ariana Grande)

"Just Like Fire" (P!nk)

"Rise" (Katy Perry)

"Send My Love (To Your New Lover)" (Adele)

"Side to Side" (Ariana Grande featuring Nicki Minaj)

"For Free" (DJ Khaled featuring Drake)

"Hotline Bling" (Drake)

"Not Nice" (PartyNextDoor)

"One Dance" (Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla)

"Rising Water" (James Vincent McMorrow)

Sept. 5th (dvsn)

"Too Good" (Drake featuring Rihanna)

We Move (James Vincent McMorrow)

"Better" (Meghan Trainor featuring Yo Gotti)

"Cruel World" (Phantogram)

"Girls Talk Boys" (5 Seconds of Summer)

"HandClap" (Fitz and The Tantrums)

"Me Too" (Meghan Trainor)

"No" (Meghan Trainor)

"Sober" (DJ Snake featuring JRY)

"You Don't Get Me High Anymore" (Phantogram)

Producer of the Year, Classical

David Frost

Blanton Alspaugh

Marina A. Ledin, Victor Ledin

Judith Sherman

Robina G. Young

Bach: The Cello Suites According to Anna Magdalena (Matt Haimovitz)

Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5 (Jonathan Biss)

Brahms & Dvořák: Serenades (Boston Symphony Chamber Players)

Fitelberg: Chamber Works (ARC Ensemble)

Ispirare (Melia Watras)

Overtures To Bach (Matt Haimovitz)

Schoenberg: Kol Nidre; Shostakovich: Suite On Verses Of Michelangelo Buonarroti (Ildar Abdrazakov, Alberto Mizrahi, Riccardo Muti, Duain Wolfe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus)

Shadow Of Sirius (Jerry F. Junkin & The University Of Texas Wind Ensemble)

The Aeolian Organ At Duke University Chapel (Christopher Jacobson)

Bolcom: Canciones De Lorca & Prometheus (René Barbera, Jeffrey Biegel, Carl St. Clair, Pacific Chorale & Pacific Symphony)

Brahms: The Four Symphonies (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Copland: Appalachian Spring Complete Ballet; Hear Ye! Hear Ye! (Leonard Slatkin & Detroit Symphony Orchestra)

Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles (James Conlon, Guanqun Yu, Joshua Guerrero, Patricia Racette, Christopher Maltman, Lucy Schaufer, Lucas Meachem, Los Angeles Opera Chorus & Orchestra)

Dvořák: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 (Andrés Orozco-Estrada & Houston Symphony)

Dvořák: Symphony No. 6; Slavonic Dances (Andrés Orozoco-Estrada & Houston Symphony)

Floyd: Wuthering Heights (Joseph Mechavich, Heather Buck, Vale Rideout, Susanne Mentzer, Kelly Markgraf, Georgia Jarman, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra & Florentine Opera Company)

Friedman: Original Piano Compositions (Joseph Banowetz)

Moszkowski: From Foreign Lands (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)

American First Sonatas (Cecile Licad)

Berlin: This Is The Life! (Rick Benjamin & Paragon Ragtime Orchestra)

Centennial Commissions, Vol. II (Charles Neidich & Pro Arte Quartet)

Gernsheim & Brahms: Piano Quintets (Reiko Uchida & Formosa Quartet)

Latin American & Spanish Masterpieces For Flute & Piano (Stephanie Jutt)

Similar Motion (Momenta Quartet)

Tchaikovsky: Complete Works For Violin & Orchestra (Jennifer Koh, Alexander Vedernikov & Odense Symphony Orchestra)

Tower: String Quartets Nos. 3-5 & Dumbarton Quintet (Miami String Quartet)

Johnson: Considering Matthew Shepard (Craig Hella Johnson & Conspirare)

Lutosławski: Concerto For Orchestra; Brahms: Piano Quartet (Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)

Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9 (Kristian Bezuidenhout)

Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 (Vadym Kholodenko, Miguel Harth-Bedoya & Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra)

A Wondrous Mystery – Renaissance Choral Music for Christmas (Stile Antico)

Remixer

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical

"Tearing Me Up" (RAC Remix)

'"Cali Coast" (Psionics Remix)

"Heavy Star Movin'" (staRo Remix)

"Nineteen Hundred and Eighty-Five" (Timo Maas & James Teej Remix)

"Only" (Kaskade × Lipless Remix)

"Wide Open" (Joe Goddard Remix)

André Allen Anjos, remixer (Bob Moses)

Josh Williams, remixer (Soul Pacific)

staRo, remixer (The Silver Lake Chorus)

Timo Maas & James Teej, remixers (Paul McCartney & Wings)

Kaskade & Lipless, remixer (Ry X)

Joe Goddard, remixer (The Chemical Brothers)

Surround Sound

Best Surround Sound Album

Dutilleux: Sur le même accord; Les Citations; Mystère de l'instant & Timbres, espace, mouvement

Johnson: Considering Matthew Shephard

Maja S.K. Ratkje: And Sing ...

Primus & The Chocolate Factory

Reflections

Alexander Lipay & Dmitriy Lipay, surround mix engineers; Dmitriy Lipay, surround mastering engineer; Dmitriy Lipay, surround producer (Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony)

Brad Michel, surround mix engineer; Brad Michel, surround mastering engineer; Robina G. Young, surround producer (Craig Hella Johnson & Conspirare)

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Maja S.K. Ratkje, Cikada & Oslo Sinfonietta)

Les Claypool, surround mix engineer; Stephen Marcussen, surround mastering engineer; Les Claypool, surround producer (Primus)

Morten Lindberg, surround mix engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround mastering engineer; Morten Lindberg, surround producer (Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene)

Classical

Best Orchestral Performance

Shostakovich: Under Stalin's Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

Bates: Works for Orchestra

Ibert: Orchestral Works

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 In B-flat major, Op. 100

Rouse: Odna Zhizn; Symphonies 3 & 4; Prospero's Rooms

Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra)

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor (San Francisco Symphony)

Neeme Järvi, conductor (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande)

Mariss Jansons, conductor (Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra)

Alan Gilbert, conductor (New York Philharmonic)

Best Opera Recording

Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles

Handel: Giulio Cesare

Higdon: Cold Mountain

Mozart: Le Nozze De Figaro

Szymanowski: Król Roger

James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu, soloists; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus)

Giovanni Antonini, conductor; Cecilia Bartoli, Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl & Anne-Sofie von Otter, soloists; Samuel Theis, producer (Il Giardino Armonico)

Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor; Emily Fons, Nathan Gunn, Isabel Leonard & Jay Hunter Morris, soloists; Elizabeth Ostrow, producer (The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra; Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers)

Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor; Thomas Hampson, Christiane Karg, Luca Pisaroni & Sonya Yoncheva, soloists; Daniel Zalay, producer (Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Vocalensemble Rastatt)

Antonio Pappano, conductor; Georgia Jarman, Mariusz Kwiecień & Saimir Pirgu, soloists; Jonathan Allen, producer (Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House; Royal Opera Chorus)

Best Choral Performance

Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1

Himmelrand

Janáček: Glagolitic Mass

Lloyd: Bonhoeffer

Steinberg: Passion Week

Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen, soloists; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir, choir)

Elisabeth Holte, conductor (Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen, Ragnfrid Lie & Matilda Sterby, soloists; Inger-Lise Ulsrud, accompanist; Uranienborg Vokalensemble, choir)

Edward Gardner, conductor; Håkon Matti Skrede, chorus master (Susan Bickley, Gábor Bretz, Sara Jakubiak & Stuart Skelton, soloists; Thomas Trotter, accompanist; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestra; Bergen Cathedral Choir, Bergen Philharmonic Choir, Choir of Collegium Musicum & Edvard Grieg Kor, choirs)

Donald Nally, conductor (Malavika Godbole, John Grecia, Rebecca Harris & Thomas Mesa, soloists; The Crossing, ensemble)

Steven Fox, conductor (The Clarion Choir)

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Steve Reich

Fitelberg: Chamber Works

Reflections

Serious Business

Trios fom Our Homelands

Spektral Quartet

ARC Ensemble

Øyvind Gimse, Geir Inge Lotsberg & Trondheimsolistene

Third Coast Percussion

Lincoln Trio

Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway

Adams, J.: Scheherazade.2

Dvorák: Violin Concerto & Romance; Suk: Fantasy

Mozart: Keyboard Music, Vols. 8 & 9

1930's Violin Concertos, Vol. 2

Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony)

Leila Josefowicz; David Robertson, conductor (Chester Englander; St. Louis Symphony)

Christian Tetzlaff; John Storgårds, conductor (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra)

Kristian Bezuidenhout

Gil Shaham; Stéphane Denève, conductor (The Knights & Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Schumann & Berg

Shakespeare Songs

Monteverdi

Mozart: The Weber Sisters

Verismo

Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist

Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker)

Magdalena Kožená; Andrea Marcon, conductor (David Feldman, Michael Feyfar, Jakob Pilgram & Luca Tittoto; La Cetra Barockorchester Basel)

Sabine Devieilhe; Raphaël Pichon, conductor (Pygmalion)

Anna Netrebko; Antonio Pappano, conductor (Yusif Eyvazov; Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia; Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia)

Best Classical Compendium

Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon a Castle

Gesualdo

Vaughan Williams: Discoveries

Wolfgang: Passing Through

Zappa: 200 Motels

Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer

Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor; Manfred Eicher, producer

Martyn Brabbins, conductor; Ann McKay, producer

Judith Farmer & Gernot Wolfgang, producers

The Suites – Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor; Frank Filipetti & Gail Zappa, producers

Best Contemporary Classical Composition

Daugherty: Tales of Hemingway

Bates: Anthology of Fantastic Zoology

Higdon: Cold Mountain

Theofanidis: Bassoon Concerto

Winger: Conversations with Nijinsky

Michael Daugherty, composer (Zuill Bailey, Giancarlo Guerrero & Nashville Symphony)

Mason Bates, composer (Riccardo Muti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

Jennifer Higdon, composer; Gene Scheer, librettist

Christopher Theofanidis, composer (Martin Kuuskmann, Barry Jekowsky & Northwest Sinfonia)

C. F. Kip Winger, composer (Martin West & San Francisco Ballet Orchestra)

Music Video/Film

Best Music Video

"Formation" – Beyoncé

"River" – Leon Bridges

"Up & Up" – Coldplay

"Gosh" – Jamie XX

"Upside Down & Inside Out" – OK Go

Melina Matsoukas, video director; Candice Dragonas, Juliette Larthe, Nathan Scherrer & Inga Veronique, video producers

Miles Jay, video director; Dennis Beier, Allison Kunzman & Saul Levitz, video producers

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Romain Gavras, video director; Iconoclast, video producers

Damian Kulash Jr. & Trish Sie, video directors; Melissa Murphy & John O'Grady, video producers

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The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Touring Years – (The Beatles)

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead – Steve Aoki

Lemonade – Beyoncé

The Music of Strangers – Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble

American Saturday Night: Live From The Grand Ole Opry – (Various Artists)

Ron Howard, video director; Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Scott Pascucci & Nigel Sinclair, video producers

Justin Krook, video director; Brent Almond, Matt Colon, David Gelb, Ryan Kavanaugh, Michael Theanne, Happy Walters & Matthew Weaver, video producers

Beyoncé Knowles Carter & Kahlil Joseph, video directors; Ed Burke, Steve Pamon, Todd Tourso, Dora Melissa Vargas, Erinn Williams & Beyoncé Knowles Carter, video producer

Morgan Neville, video director; Caitrin Rogers, video producer

George J. Flanigen IV, video director; Steve Buchanan, John Burke & Lindsey Clark, Robert Deaton, Pete Fisher & George J. Flanigen IV, video producers

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When it comes to U.S. stocks, growth trumps quality

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. investors are not rewarding companies for generating good earnings consistently, opting instead for a stockpicking strategy that might be called “growth at a high cost.”

High-quality stocks selected for their strong balance sheets and stable earnings have appreciated just 12 percent this year, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), while the broader S&P 500 .SPX benchmark index has returned 13.8 percent.

But investors cannot seem to stop throwing money at companies improving their sales fastest: a group of such equities tracked by Goldman Sachs has surged 20 percent. Put another way, discriminating investors who have chosen companies with stable earnings prospects are being punished.

This lagging interest in quality stocks has even whipsawed well-known fund managers; Whitney Tilson said this week he was shutting down his Kase Capital Management LLC hedge fund.

“Historically, I have invested in high-quality, safe stocks at good prices as well as lower-quality ones at distressed prices,” Tilson wrote to investors.

“Given the high prices and complacency that currently prevail in the market, however, my favorite safe stocks (like Berkshire Hathaway (BRKa.N) and Mondelez (MDLZ.O)) don’t feel cheap, and my favorite cheap stocks (like Hertz (HTZ.N) and Spirit Airlines (SAVE.O)) don’t feel safe. Hence, my decision to shut down.”

Yet some managers are betting that complacent markets could be shaken from their zombie-like slumber as easy monetary policy and its backdrop of lower interest rates comes to an end.

“In an environment like we’re in now – where no one really cares what things are worth – you may underperform, but over time reality will set in,” said Sean O‘Hara, director at Pacer Financial Inc. “It always does.”

REVERSAL OF STIMULUS

O‘Hara said quality investments underperform when investors are willing to buy stocks without regard to their value, and that markets have been supported by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s extraordinarily loose policies.

Earlier this month, the Fed, as expected, said it would begin to reverse some of those policies by gradually reducing its bond holdings.

Pacer Financial is one of a several investment firms betting that quality will matter again. Its “Cash Cows” ETFs buy companies with strong cash flows and healthy balance sheets.

Goldman Sachs’ global investment research unit included companies such as retailer Ross Stores Inc (ROST.O), pharmacist CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) and oil driller Schlumberger NV (SLB.N) in its high-quality group earlier this year.

Yet these companies have mostly not been star performers.

The market has been led by so-called “FANG” stocks – like Facebook Inc (FB.O), Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) and Google parent Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) – and a small winner’s circle of lesser-known names like Celgene Corp (CELG.O) and Equinix Inc (EQIX.O).

These companies have all enjoyed robust sales growth in a U.S. economy that’s below its boiling point, even as many factors disqualify some of them as quality stocks. Netflix has had 12 straight quarters of negative free cash flow, and the company warned it may not see positive free cash flow “for many years” as it invests in original content like the science-fiction drama “Stranger Things.”

Still, its subscriber growth continues to exceed estimates, and the stock has rocketed more than 45 percent this year.

LUXURY OF GROWTH

Investors are paying a premium for the luxury of revenue growth: $24 for every dollar of earnings per share anticipated over the next 12 months, compared to $20 for quality names and $13 for high adjusted free-cash-flow yield equities, according to Goldman Sachs data.

Raffaele Savi, a portfolio manager for BlackRock Inc’s (BLK.N) $647 million Global Long/Short Equity Fund (BDMAX.O), said strong revenue growth is “more rare than at many points in the past,” given U.S. gross domestic product growth averaging around 2 percent annually. The fund’s recent performance commentary said investors have been shunning company fundamentals.

With the Fed’s interest-rate hiking cycle taking hold, investors are bracing for market dynamics to change.

“When you see these huge headlines on big investors and hedge funds throwing in the towel because they can’t make sense of the market, that is a sign that things are about to turn,” said Guggenheim Partners LLC global chief investment officer Scott Minerd.

Part of the reason quality does not work as well as it once did may be that more assets follow “quantitative” funds that rely on the same statistics measuring quality, said Brian Hayes, equity strategist at Morgan Stanley & Co LLC (MS.N).

Plus, it’s harder for investors to assess what an earnings report is saying. Technology giants, for instance, derive more of their worth these days from services, patents and brand value, intangibles that can be hard to value.

Editing by Jennifer Ablan and Bernadette Baum

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