Capstone Records is an American classical music
record label
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focusing particularly on
contemporary classical music. It was established by Richard Brooks in 1986 and was based in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
, New York. The label has hundreds of releases featuring a wide range of composers from
William Albright,
Milton Babbitt, Robert Baksa, and
John Cage to
Mary Jeanne van Appledorn,
Rodney Waschka II
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Biography
Waschka studied at Brooklyn College, at the Institute of Sonology, then newly part of the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, and ...
,
Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde c ...
, and
Chen Yi Chen Yi may refer to:
* Xuanzang (602–664), born as Chen Yi, Chinese Buddhist monk in Tang Dynasty
* Chen Yi (Kuomintang)
Chen Yi (; courtesy names Gongxia (公俠) and later Gongqia (公洽), sobriquet Tuisu (退素); May 3, 1883 – June ...
. Performers represented on the label include such groups as the
California EAR Unit, the
Nevsky String Quartet,
Steven Graff, and the
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, the company was acquired by Parma Recordings of
Hampton, New Hampshire
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The densely populated central part ...
. In the spring of 2009 it was announced Capstone would be run as an imprint.
Capstone Records acquired by Parma Recordings
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See also
* List of record labels
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References
External links
Capstone Records official site
Classical music record labels
American independent record labels
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