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  • 2008 Nonesuch "Best of" Covers
    Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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    Nonesuch Albums Abound in Year-End Best Lists

    While 2008 may go down as one of the more turbulent years in recent (or distant) memory, or, more optimistically, a time of change, there is much to celebrate in the year in music. Nonesuch artists across all genres have contributed to that and, accordingly, have made their way onto many critics' lists of the year's best. For the final Nonesuch Journal article of the year, we offer an overview of just some of that year-end critical praise.

  • Grammy Award
    Thursday, December 4, 2008
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    Nonesuch Artists Grab 13 Grammy Nominations

    The Grammy nominations are in, and a big congratulations goes out to the many Nonesuch artists whose work has been recognized by the Recording Academy, the organization behind the awards. Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell, Brad Mehldau, Ry Cooder, Emmylou Harris, Toumani Diabaté, Youssou N'Dour, Stephen Sondheim, Jonny Greenwood, and Isabel Bayrakdarian were all recognized for their recent Nonesuch releases, as were producers Danger Mouse and Judith Sherman for their work on Nonesuch albums this year.

  • Jonny Greenwood
    Thursday, August 21, 2008
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    Jonny Greenwood Piece Gets West Coast Premiere in "Wordless Music"'s SF Debut

    Jonny Greenwood's Popcorn Superhet Receiver will receive its West Coast premiere tonight at San Francisco's Herbst Theatre. The composer included excerpts from the piece in his score for the Oscar-winning film There Will Be Blood, which you can listen to here. Tonight's concert also marks the San Francisco debut of New York's Wordless Music Series (helmed by Nonesuch's own Ronen Givony), which is presenting the concert and which gave the piece's US premiere in New York earlier this year.

  • Monday, April 7, 2008
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    "There Will Be Blood" Out on DVD Today

    Director Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic There Will Be Blood, which earned two Academy Awards earlier this year for lead actor Daniel Day-Lewis (who also won the Golden Globe) and cinematographer Robert Elswit, is out on DVD today.

  • Tuesday, April 1, 2008
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    Rolling Stone: "Sweeney Todd" "A Bloody Wonder," Now One of Year's Best DVDs

    "There is no question what DVD you should snatch up this week," writes Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers. "It's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street." He continues:

  • Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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    Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood" Makes Alex Ross's "Soundtrack to the City"

    On the same day Alex Ross, the New Yorker music critic, enjoyed the Stephen Colbert treatment as a guest on the Colbert Report, Gothamist published an interview with Ross, in which he discusses his new book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century.

  • Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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    Santa Barbara Independent: Bill Frisell This Week's Show of the Week

    The Santa Barbara Independent takes advantage of the start of the New Year to combine the paper's list of the best of last year with a look at the best of what's to come. There Will Be Blood is among the best films of 2007, and among the city's best live shows last year, the Independent's Josef Woodard lists both Wilco's concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl in support of Sky Blue Sky and the Pat Metheny / Brad Mehldau Quartet gig at Campbell Hall.

  • Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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    News & Review: Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood" Score Is Just What the Film Needs

    The Sacramento News & Review calls There Will Be Blood "a real achievement" and says that with the film, director Paul Thomas Anderson "has achieved a bombastic breakthrough ... This is the best work he’s ever done."

  • Wednesday, January 9, 2008
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    Bay Area Reporter: Greenwood's "Mind-Blowing" Score for "There Will Be Blood" Is "In a Class by Itself"

    The Bay Area Reporter says that Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood "is nothing short of mind-blowing." Writes reviewer Gregg Shapiro: "Greenwood's stunning compositions and orchestration put this soundtrack in a class by itself."

    To read the review, visit ebar.com. To purchase the soundtrack with three downloadable bonus tracks, visit the Nonesuch Store.

  • Tuesday, January 8, 2008
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    Rolling Stone: Greenwood's "There Will Be Blood" Score "Reinvents What Movie Music Can Be"

    Rolling Stone's Peter Travers, in his four-star review of Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, writes that "in terms of excitement, imagination and rule-busting experimentation, it's a gusher ... There Will Be Blood hits with hurricane force."

    In such a powerful piece, the soundscape behind it forms a "crucial" foundation. "And the score by ... Jonny Greenwood is revolutionary," writes Travers, "a sonic explosion that reinvents what movie music can be."

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