Meredith Arwady, a graduate of Kalamazoo’s Loy Norrix High School, won her first Grammy Award for her performance on the recording of "Doctor Atomic." She and her castmates won in the Best Opera Recording Category. Arwady, a contralto, made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in the opera in 2008 playing Pasqualita, the maid of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb.
In this YouTube video, family and friends
react to the announcement at her mother's home in Kalamazoo.
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