New World Records quietly celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2025, and is now the oldest non-profit company in the music business. Founded as a Bicentennial project by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1975 to tell the history of America through its music, NWR evolved into a label dedicated to documenting and preserving the rich diversity of America’s musical heritage. Fifty years and more than 600 titles later, it is one of the most important repositories of American music and an indispensable resource for anyone wishing to study the evolution of American concert music.