The nominations are for best orchestral performance and classical producer of the year for Blanton Alspaugh, who has production credit for the DSO album released in June. The album, "Copland: Symphony No. 3; Three Latin American Sketches," was conducted by Leonard Slatkin, who is in his 10th and final season as music director, and released by Hong Kong label Naxos Records. Slatkin will become music director laureate at the end of the season.

The DSO is up against the Cincinnati, San Francisco and Pittsburgh symphonies and the Minnesota Orchestra for the best orchestra award, while Alspaugh faces four other producers.

Copland premiered Symphony No. 3 in 1946 after the Second World War ended, calling it "... an end-of-war piece — intended to reflect the euphoric spirit of the country at the time," according to a news release.

"It's not the first time — we've been nominated various times before," DSO spokesman Ben Breuninger said. "We have had conductors and producers nominated over the course of the Grammys history. We have never won though."

Alspaugh, who was credited for producing two DSO recordings conducted by Slatkin, was bested by David Frost as classical producer of the year in the 2017 Grammy Awards.

Alspaugh has been nominated for a Grammy Award 19 times and won six of the awards, according to the Recording Academy's Grammy Awards website.

The 2018 Grammy Awards are scheduled for Jan. 28 at Madison Square Garden in New York and air live on CBS. It is not yet known if anyone from the DSO will attend.