There's Andris Nelsons and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra on 21 August in Britten's War Requiem; and the First Night of the Proms is a bold and deserved choice: Elgar's underrated oratorio The Kingdom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and their 70 year-old conductor laureate, Andrew Davis.
He was widely considered a deserving choice and, if anything, overdue for the honor.
Mr. Bloom, almost 90, is a deserving choice, and he gets the project off to a bracingly idiosyncratic start.
Mr. Bloom, almost 90, is certainly a deserving choice, and he gets the project off to a bracingly idiosyncratic start.
Benjamin Gilmour's deeply contemplative Afghanistan-set war film Jirga won it, though the also-nominated Strange Colours would have made a deserving choice, too.
Thursday night's concert featured Lukas Foss's "Time Cycle" with the soprano Dawn Upshaw as soloist, a deserving choice, since this 1960 work, considered a breakthrough at the time, is more known about than known.
But if you were to pick one NFL player to lead a presidential ticket, Sherman would be pretty a deserving choice.
Its biggest obstacle may be convincing voters that it's a deserving choice in the comedy category when much of its power comes from the moving way it presents its characters' back stories in flashbacks.
He collects awards the way others collect curios, and in 2008 he won Gramophone magazine's ultimate accolade for the best release of the last 30 years with his recording of Saint-Saëns piano concertos: an unlikely though deserving choice.
The Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi – who's never before had a museum retrospective in the United States, and was known to me largely through her inclusion in the 2007 edition of international art exhibition Documenta – is a shrewd and thoroughly deserving choice for the building's first solo show.
People deserve choice even if they don't have a lot of money.
