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
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Written by Mikail Graham on May 10, 2021
Greetings from the little station that could, does and continues to do 24/7/365. Mikail in the KVMR Banner Mountain Shack circa 1978.
When I look back at the last nearly 44 years of my life, other than music there’s one thing that has remained steady through all of that time – KVMR. What started as a dream in one man’s meditation with his Guru, turned into an extended family of broadcasters and listeners alike that has become so much more than what any of us could ever imagine it would evolve into.
From the little shack on the hill and now in our own state of the art building in downtown Nevada City, this has been and is – one helluva trippy journey. With a little help from friends like you, we are slowly paying off the mortgage and making headway into the digital world of the 21st century in such a big way. We now have 3 separate frequencies/media platforms, a way-cool General Manager, a super productive staff, a n
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