After the ten years it spent with Elektra, it spent eight with Warner Music International and three years with Atlantic before moving to its current home at Warner Bros. Records. Please try again later. Grammy Award Winners Founded as a budget classical label in 1964 by Jac Holzman, head of the then-independent Elektra Records, Nonesuch Records has grown over the last five decades to pursue a broad mission, including classical music, contemporary music, jazz, music theatre, traditional American and world music, popular and alternative music. We actually made the World Circuit deal knowing nothing about the In the last 20-plus years, Nonesuch has repeatedly hit the right note, though its successes, like the Górecki Third or One of the things I brought from my ECM days was the idea that you cannot second-guess the public in terms of what it might like; the experience of seeing Keith Jarrett selling millions of copies of a record of solo improvised piano music demonstrated to me that there are far more people interested in adventurous music than we can imagine. It was a time when most of the classical divisions of major labels were asleep. European Enquiries. 'I'll send them to you soon,' he said. Engineered by Leslie Ann Jones; mixed by John Kilgore, Judy Sherman, and David Harrington; and mastered by Robert C. Ludwig.- 2001 Latin Grammy: MPB (Musica Polular Brasileira)- 2000 Latin Grammy: MPB (Musica Polular Brasileira)- 2004 Best Rock Instrumental Performance, "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" More positively, though, it gave Nonesuch, for the first time, much more of a foot in the European market.It was also an important moment for the company, as Hurwitz was able to hire the highly respected David Bither—who had been the general manager of Elektra Records—to take on a position with Nonesuch as senior vice president.
Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. And a special note to our International customers, please allow 4-6 weeks before contacting our Customer Service team about your shipment. But all of our initial successes came out of that area." The rock duo The Black Keys has released five studio albums on Nonesuch—A band that straddles many of the genres Nonesuch presents is virtuoso mandolinist Chris Thile's group Punch Brothers, which released its label debut, Among the iconic pop musicians Nonesuch has been fortunate to work with in recent years are Emmylou Harris, with her Grammy-winning label debut, There is a sensibility that unites them, one in which all these musical categories dissolve into ... a musical world where boundaries between genres stretch and snap. Please fill out the correct information. That was one of those moments of utter good fortune. For questions and comments on Nonesuch Records in Europe, please contact nonesuch.uk@warnermusic.com.
If the label identity only uses other compound forms, use those identities, not this one. Please fill out the correct information. As Holzman told the Over the years, reports have suggested that the first year's worth of Nonesuch releases generated sufficient income to help support the pop side of Elektra and enable Holzman to sign such acts as the Doors and Love. Though Bither didn't officially join Hurwitz and Clancy until 1994, he was part of practically every major conversation and campaign, even during his Elektra days. Part of the reason is that, relative to its size, it has had a very high success rate—every year between four and six albums sell between 100,000 and 500,000 units, not at all extraordinary by pop standards but because Nonesuch has such a small overhead (between 12 and 14 employees through much of the past two decades), it has allowed the company far more freedom in its decisions than in companies with much larger staffs.The staff has been unusually stable.
Where [violinist] Gidon Kremer can go to new places with John Adams and then make a heartfelt case for tango master Astor Piazzolla as he has on a pair of CDs. Timothy Andres fuses the grandeur of John Adams with the rigor of Brad Mehldau, while Chris Thile somehow channels both the pristine country of Emmylou Harris and the formal elegance of the Assad brothers. It broke down a wall, and perhaps at that moment, Nonesuch ceased to be "a classical label." Contact Nonesuch Records on Messenger.