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Nonesuch Records releases the forty-disc John Adams Collected Works, a box set featuring recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with the label, on June 24, 2022. The release includes two extensive booklets containing new essays and notes by Timo Andres, Julia Bullock, Robert Hurwitz, Nico Muhly, and Jake Wilder-Smith. Nonesuch made its first record with John Adams in 1985. He was signed exclusively to the label that year, and since then the company has released forty-two first recordings and thirty-one all-Adams albums, of which six are full-length operas, oratorios, or staged theatrical presentations. Four of Adams’ Nonesuch records have won Grammy Awards, among other honors. “John Adams coming to the label was one of the central events in our company’s history,” says Robert Hurwitz, Nonesuch’s longtime President and current Chairman Emeritus. “The idea of a label recording all of the works of its most cherished composers had been lon
Alarm Will Sound Coming in Concert to Webster University Hailed as “one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American Music scene” by The New York Times, Alarm Will Sound will perform Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy’s new evening-length work, Land of Winter. The title of the work comes from the Latin name for Ireland, Hibernia, which translates as “land of winter.” This exciting new work will explore the play between light and time as they relate to the seasons of the year.