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Reich performing Clapping Music in 2006
Stephen Michael Reich (/raɪx/[1] or /raɪʃ/;[2] born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s.[3][4][5]
Reich's style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably Different Trains.
Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history".[6] The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has said that Reich "may ... be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer".[7]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 1960s
2.2 1970s
2.3 1980s
2.4 1990s
2.5 2000s
2.6 2010s
3 Awards
4 Influence
5 Works
5.1 Music
5.2 Selected discography
5.3 Books
6 See also
7 Notes
8 Further reading
9 External links
9.1 Interviews
9.2 Listening
9.3 Others
Early life[edit]
Reich was born in New York City to the Broadway lyricist June Sillman and Leonard Reich. When he was one year old, his parents divorced, and Reich divided his time between New York and California. He is the half-brother of writer Jonathan Carroll.[8] He was given piano lessons as a child and describes growing up with the "middle-class favorites", having no exposure to music written before 1750 or after 1900. At the age of 14 he began to study music in earnest, after hearing music from the Baroque period and earlier, as well as music of the 20th century. Reich studied drums with Roland Kohloff in order to play jazz. While attending Cornell University, he minored in music and graduated in 1957 with a B.A. in Philosophy.[9] Reich's B.A. thesis was on Ludwig Wittgenstein;[citation needed] later he would set texts by that philosopher to music in Proverb (1995) and You Are (variations) (2006).
For a year following graduation, Reich studied composition privately with Hall Overton before he enrolled at Juilliard to work with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti (1958–1961). Subsequently, he attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where he studied with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud (1961–1963) and earned a master's degree in composition. At Mills, Reich composed Melodica for melodica and tape, which appeared in 1986 on the three-LP release Music from Mills.[10]
Reich worked with the San Francisco Tape Music Center along with Pauline Oliveros, Ramon Sender, Morton Subotnick, Phil Lesh and Terry Riley.[11] He was involved with the premiere of Riley's In C and suggested the use of the eighth note pulse, which is now standard in performance of the piece.
Career[edit]
1960s[edit]
Reich's early forays into composition involved experimentation with twelve-tone composition, but he found the rhythmic aspects of the number twelve more interesting than the pitch aspects.[12] Reich also composed film soundtracks for Plastic Haircut (1963), Oh Dem Watermelons (1965), and Thick Pucker (1965), three films by Robert Nelson. The soundtrack of Plastic Haircut, composed in 1963, was a short tape collage, possibly Reich's first. The Watermelons soundtrack used two 19th-century minstrel tunes as its basis, and used repeated phrasing together in a large five-part canon. The music for Thick Pucker arose from street recordings Reich made walking around San Francisco with Nelson, who filmed in black and white 16mm. This film no longer survives. A fourth film from 1965, about 25 minutes long and tentatively entitled "Thick Pucker II", was assembled by Nelson from outtakes of that shoot and more of the raw audio Reich had recorded. Nelson was not happy with the resulting film and never showed it.
Reich was influenced by fellow minimalist Terry Riley, whose work In C combines simple musical patterns, offset in time, to create a slowly shifting, cohesive whole. Reich adopted this approach to compose his first major work, It's Gonna Rain. Composed in 1965, the piece used a fragment of a sermon about the end of the world given by a black Pentecostal street-preacher known as Brother Walter. Reich built on his early tape work, transferring the last three words of the fragment, "it's gonna rain!", to multiple tape loops which gradually move out of phase with one another.
The 13-minute Come Out (1966) uses similarly manipulated recordings of a single spoken line given by Daniel Hamm, one of the falsely accused Harlem Six, who was severely injured by police.[13] The survivor, who had been beaten, punctured a bruise on his own body to convince police about his beating. The spoken line includes the phrase "to let the bruise’s blood come out to show them." Reich rerecorded the fragment "come out to show them" on two channels, which are initially played in unison. They quickly slip out of sync; gradually the discrepancy widens and becomes a reverberation. The two voices then split into four, looped continuously, then eight, and continues splitting until the actual words are unintelligible, leaving the listener with only the speech's rhythmic and tonal patterns. In 1999, Rolling Stone magazine dubbed Reich "The Father of Sampling" and compared his work with the parallel evolution of hip-hop culture by DJs such as Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash.[14]
Reich's first attempt at translating this phasing technique from recorded tape to live performance was the 1967 Piano Phase, for two pianos. In Piano Phase the performers repeat a rapid twelve-note melodic figure, initially in unison. As one player keeps tempo with robotic precision, the other speeds up very slightly until the two parts line up again, but one sixteenth note apart. The second player then resumes the previous tempo. This cycle of speeding up and then locking in continues throughout the piece; the cycle comes full circle three times, the second and third cycles using shorter versions of the initial figure. Violin Phase, also written in 1967, is built on these same lines. Piano Phase and Violin Phase both premiered in a series of concerts given in New York art galleries.
A similar, lesser known example of this so-called process music is Pendulum Music (1968), which consists of the sound of several microphones swinging over the loudspeakers to which they are attached, producing feedback as they do so. "Pendulum Music" has never been recorded by Reich himself, but was introduced to rock audiences by Sonic Youth in the late 1990s.
Reich also tried to create the phasing effect in a piece "that would need no instrument beyond the human body". He found that the idea of phasing was inappropriate for the simple ways he was experimenting to make sound. Instead, he composed Clapping Music (1972), in which the players do not phase in and out with each other, but instead one performer keeps one line of a 12-quaver-long (12-eighth-note-long) phrase and the other performer shifts by one quaver beat every 12 bars, until both performers are back in unison 144 bars later.
The 1967 prototype piece Slow Motion Sound was not performed although Chris Hughes performed it 27 years later as Slow Motion Blackbird on his Reich-influenced 1994 album Shift. It introduced the idea of slowing down a recorded sound until many times its original length without changing pitch or timbre, which Reich applied to Four Organs (1970), which deals specifically with augmentation. The piece has maracas playing a fast eighth note pulse, while the four organs stress certain eighth notes using an 11th chord. This work therefore dealt with repetition and subtle rhythmic change. It is unique in the context of Reich's other pieces[clarification needed How so – 'unique'?] in being linear as opposed to cyclic like his earlier works – the superficially similar Phase Patterns, also for four organs but without maracas, is (as the name suggests) a phase piece similar to others composed during the period. Four Organs was performed as part of a Boston Symphony Orchestra program, and was Reich's first composition to be performed in a large traditional setting.
1970s[edit]
In 1970, Reich embarked on a five-week trip to study music in Ghana, during which he learned from the master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie. Reich also studied Balinese gamelan in Seattle.[when?] From his African experience, as well as A. M. Jones's Studies in African Music about the music of the Ewe people, Reich drew inspiration for his 90-minute piece Drumming, which he composed shortly after his return. Composed for a nine-piece percussion ensemble with female voices and piccolo, Drumming marked the beginning of a new stage in his career, for around this time he formed his ensemble, Steve Reich and Musicians, and increasingly concentrated on composition and performance with them. Steve Reich and Musicians, which was to be the sole ensemble to interpret his works for many years, still remains active with many of its original members.[citation needed]
After Drumming, Reich moved on from the "phase shifting" technique that he had pioneered, and began writing more elaborate pieces. He investigated other musical processes such as augmentation (the temporal lengthening of phrases and melodic fragments). It was during this period that he wrote works such as Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973) and Six Pianos (1973).
In 1974, Reich began writing Music for 18 Musicians. This piece involved many new ideas, although it also hearkened back to earlier pieces. It is based on a cycle of eleven chords introduced at the beginning (called "Pulses"), followed by a small section of music based on each chord ("Sections I-XI"), and finally a return to the original cycle ("Pulses"). This was Reich's first attempt at writing for larger ensembles. The increased number of performers resulted in more scope for psychoacoustic effects, which fascinated Reich, and he noted that he would like to "explore this idea further". Reich remarked that this one work contained more harmonic movement in the first five minutes than any other work he had written. Steve Reich and Musicians made the premier recording of this work on ECM Records.
Reich explored these ideas further in his frequently recorded pieces Music for a Large Ensemble (1978) and Octet (1979). In these two works, Reich experimented with "the human breath as the measure of musical duration ... the chords played by the trumpets are written to take one comfortable breath to perform".[15] Human voices are part of the musical palette in Music for a Large Ensemble but the wordless vocal parts simply form part of the texture (as they do in Drumming). With Octet and his first orchestral piece Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (also 1979), Reich's music showed the influence of Biblical cantillation, which he had studied in Israel since the summer of 1977. After this, the human voice singing a text would play an increasingly important role in Reich's music.
The technique [...] consists of taking pre-existing melodic patterns and stringing them together to form a longer melody in the service of a holy text. If you take away the text, you're left with the idea of putting together small motives to make longer melodies – a technique I had not encountered before.[16]
In 1974 Reich published the book Writings About Music, containing essays on his philosophy, aesthetics, and musical projects written between 1963 and 1974. An updated and much more extensive collection, Writings On Music (1965–2000), was published in 2002.
1980s[edit]
Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage. Tehillim (1981), Hebrew for psalms, is the first of Reich's works to draw explicitly on his Jewish background. The work is in four parts, and is scored for an ensemble of four women's voices (one high soprano, two lyric sopranos and one alto), piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, two clarinets, six percussion (playing small tuned tambourines without jingles, clapping, maracas, marimba, vibraphone and crotales), two electronic organs, two violins, viola, cello and double bass, with amplified voices, strings, and winds. A setting of texts from psalms 19:2–5 (19:1–4 in Christian translations), 34:13–15 (34:12–14), 18:26–27 (18:25–26), and 150:4–6, Tehillim is a departure from Reich's other work in its formal structure; the setting of texts several lines long rather than the fragments used in previous works makes melody a substantive element. Use of formal counterpoint and functional harmony also contrasts with the loosely structured minimalist works written previously.
Pat Metheny "Electric Counterpoint III Fast" (1989)
25 seconds of "Electric Counterpoint III Fast" performed by Pat Metheny. Composed by Steve Reich. From "Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint" album.
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Different Trains (1988), for string quartet and tape, uses recorded speech, as in his earlier works, but this time as a melodic rather than a rhythmic element. In Different Trains Reich compares and contrasts his childhood memories of his train journeys between New York and California in 1939–1941 with the very different trains being used to transport contemporaneous European children to their deaths under Nazi rule. The Kronos Quartet recording of Different Trains was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition in 1990. The composition was described by Richard Taruskin as "the only adequate musical response—one of the few adequate artistic responses in any medium—to the Holocaust", and he credited the piece with earning Reich a place among the great composers of the 20th century.[17]
1990s[edit]
In 1993, Reich collaborated with his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot, on an opera, The Cave, which explores the roots of Judaism, Christianity and Islam through the words of Israelis, Palestinians, and Americans, echoed musically by the ensemble. The work, for percussion, voices, and strings, is a musical documentary, named for the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron, where a mosque now stands and Abraham is said to have been buried.
Reich and Korot collaborated on the opera Three Tales, which concerns the Hindenburg disaster, the testing of nuclear weapons on Bikini Atoll, and other more modern concerns, specifically Dolly the sheep, cloning, and the technological singularity.
Reich used sampling techniques for pieces like Three Tales and City Life from 1994. Reich returned to composing purely instrumental works for the concert hall, starting with Triple Quartet in 1998 written for the Kronos Quartet that can either be performed by string quartet and tape, three string quartets or 36-piece string orchestra. According to Reich, the piece is influenced by Bartók's and Alfred Schnittke's string quartets, and Michael Gordon's Yo Shakespeare.[18]
2000s[edit]
The instrumental series for the concert hall continued with Dance Patterns (2002), Cello Counterpoint (2003), and sequence of works centered around Variations: You Are (Variations) (2004), a work which looks back to the vocal writing of works like Tehillim or The Desert Music, Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings in 2005, for the London Sinfonietta and Daniel Variations (2006).
in 2002 Reich was invited by Walter Fink to the annual Komponistenporträt of the Rheingau Musik Festival, as the 12th composer featured.
In an interview with The Guardian, Reich stated that he continued to follow this direction with his piece Double Sextet (2007), which was commissioned by eighth blackbird, an American ensemble consisting of the instrumental quintet (flute, clarinet, violin or viola, cello and piano) of Schoenberg's piece Pierrot Lunaire (1912) plus percussion. Reich states that he was thinking about Stravinsky's Agon (1957) as a model for the instrumental writing.[citation needed]
December 2010 Nonesuch Records and Indaba Music held a community remix contest in which over 250 submissions were received, and Steve Reich and Christian Carey judged the finals. Reich spoke in a related BBC interview that once he composed a piece he would not alter it again himself; "When it's done, it's done," he said. On the other hand, he acknowledged that remixes have an old tradition e.g. famous religious music pieces where melodies were further developed into new songs.[19]
2010s[edit]
Reich has the world premiere of a piece, WTC 9/11, written for String Quartet and Tape, a similar instrumentation to that of Different Trains. It was premiered in March 2011 by the Kronos Quartet, at Duke University, North Carolina, US.[20]
On March 5, 2013 the London Sinfonietta, conducted by Brad Lubman, at the Royal Festival Hall in London gave the world premiere of Radio Rewrite for ensemble with 11 players, inspired by the music of Radiohead. The programme also included Double Sextet for ensemble with 12 players, Clapping Music, for two people and four hands featuring Reich himself alongside percussionist Colin Currie, Electric Counterpoint, with electric guitar by Mats Bergstrom accompanied by a layered soundtrack, as well as two of Reich's small ensemble pieces, one for acoustic instruments, the other for electric instruments and tape.[21]
Awards[edit]
On January 25, 2007, Reich was named 2007 recipient of the Polar Music Prize with jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins.[22]
On April 20, 2009, Reich was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music, recognizing Double Sextet, first performed in Richmond March 26, 2008. The citation called it "a major work that displays an ability to channel an initial burst of energy into a large-scale musical event, built with masterful control and consistently intriguing to the ear".[23][24]
In May 2011 Steve Reich received an honorary doctorate from the New England Conservatory of Music.[25]
In 2013 Reich received the US$400,000 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in contemporary music for bringing a new conception of music, based on the use of realist elements from the realm of daily life and others drawn from the traditional music of Africa and Asia.[26]
In September 2014, Reich was awarded the "Leone d'Oro" (Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Music) from the Venice Biennale.[27]
In March 2016, Reich was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Royal College of Music in London.[28]
Influence[edit]
Reich's style of composition has influenced many other composers and musical groups, including John Adams, the progressive rock band King Crimson, the new-age guitarist Michael Hedges, the art-pop and electronic musician Brian Eno, the experimental art/music group The Residents, the composers associated with the Bang on a Can festival (including David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe), and numerous indie rock musicians including songwriter Sufjan Stevens[29][30] and instrumental ensembles Tortoise,[31][32][33] The Mercury Program (themselves influenced by Tortoise),[34] and Godspeed You! Black Emperor (who titled an unreleased song "Steve Reich").[35]
John Adams commented, "He didn't reinvent the wheel so much as he showed us a new way to ride."[36] He has also influenced visual artists such as Bruce Nauman, and many notable choreographers have made dances to his music, Eliot Feld, Jiří Kylián, Douglas Lee and Jerome Robbins among others; he has expressed particular admiration of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's work set to his pieces.
In featuring a sample of Reich's Electric Counterpoint (1987) the British ambient techno act the Orb exposed a new generation of listeners to the composer's music with its 1990 production Little Fluffy Clouds.[37] In 1999 the album Reich Remixed featured "re-mixes" of a number of Reich's works by various electronic dance-music producers, such as DJ Spooky, Kurtis Mantronik, Ken Ishii, and Coldcut amongst others.[37][38]
Reich often cites Pérotin, J. S. Bach, Debussy, Bartók, and Stravinsky as composers whom he admires and who greatly influenced him when he was young.[39] Jazz is a major part of the formation of Reich's musical style, and two of the earliest influences on his work were vocalists Ella Fitzgerald and Alfred Deller, whose emphasis on the artistic capabilities of the voice alone with little vibrato or other alteration was an inspiration to his earliest works. John Coltrane's style, which Reich has described as "playing a lot of notes to very few harmonies", also had an impact; of particular interest was the album Africa/Brass, which "was basically a half-an-hour in F."[40] Reich's influence from jazz includes its roots, also, from the West African music he studied in his readings and visit to Ghana. Other important influences are Kenny Clarke and Miles Davis, and visual artist friends such as Sol LeWitt and Richard Serra. Reich has also stated that he admires the music of the band Radiohead, which led to his composition Radio Rewrite.[41]
Works[edit]
Music[edit]
Soundtrack for Plastic Haircut, tape (1963)
Music for two or more pianos (1964)
Livelihood (1964)
It's Gonna Rain, tape (1965)
Soundtrack for Oh Dem Watermelons, tape (1965)
Come Out, tape (1966)
Melodica, for melodica and tape (1966)
Reed Phase, for soprano saxophone or any other reed instrument and tape, or three reed instruments (1966)
Piano Phase for two pianos, or two marimbas (1967)
Slow Motion Sound concept piece (1967)
Violin Phase for violin and tape or four violins (1967)
My Name Is for three tape recorders and performers (1967)
Pendulum Music for 3 or 4 microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers (1968) (revised 1973)[42]
Four Organs for four electric organs and maracas (1970)
Phase Patterns for four electric organs (1970)
Drumming for 4 pairs of tuned bongo drums, 3 marimbas, 3 glockenspiels, 2 female voices, whistling and piccolo (1970/1971)
Clapping Music for two musicians clapping (1972)
Music for Pieces of Wood for five pairs of tuned claves (1973)
Six Pianos (1973) – also arranged as Six Marimbas (1986) and Piano Counterpoint (2011)
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973)
Music for 18 Musicians (1974–76)
Music for a Large Ensemble (1978)
Octet (1979) – withdrawn in favor of the 1983 revision for slightly larger ensemble, Eight Lines
Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards for orchestra (1979)
Tehillim for voices and ensemble (1981)
Vermont Counterpoint for amplified flute and tape (1982)
The Desert Music for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble (1983, text by William Carlos Williams)
Sextet for percussion and keyboards (1984)
New York Counterpoint for amplified clarinet and tape, or 11 clarinets and bass clarinet (1985)
Three Movements for orchestra (1986)
Electric Counterpoint for electric guitar or amplified acoustic guitar and tape (1987, for Pat Metheny)
The Four Sections for orchestra (1987)
Different Trains for string quartet and tape (1988)
The Cave for four voices, ensemble and video (1993, with Beryl Korot)
Duet for two violins and string ensemble (1993, dedicated to Yehudi Menuhin)
Nagoya Marimbas for two marimbas (1994)
City Life for amplified ensemble (1995)
Proverb for voices and ensemble (1995, text by Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Triple Quartet for amplified string quartet (with prerecorded tape), or three string quartets, or string orchestra (1998)
Know What Is Above You for four women’s voices and 2 tamborims (1999)
Three Tales for video projection, five voices and ensemble (1998–2002, with Beryl Korot)
Dance Patterns for 2 xylophones, 2 vibraphones and 2 pianos (2002)
Cello Counterpoint for amplified cello and multichannel tape (2003)
You Are (Variations) for voices and ensemble (2004)
For Strings (with Winds and Brass) for orchestra (1987/2004)
Variations for Vibes, Pianos, and Strings dance piece for three string quartets, four vibraphones, and two pianos (2005)
Daniel Variations for four voices and ensemble (2006)
Double Sextet for 2 violins, 2 cellos, 2 pianos, 2 vibraphones, 2 clarinets, 2 flutes or ensemble and pre-recorded tape (2007)
2×5 for 2 drum sets, 2 pianos, 4 electric guitars and 2 bass guitars (2008)
Mallet Quartet for 2 marimbas and 2 vibraphones or 4 marimbas (or solo percussion and tape) (2009)
WTC 9/11 for string quartet and tape (2010)
Finishing the Hat for two pianos (2011)
Radio Rewrite for ensemble (2012)
Quartet for two vibraphones and two pianos (2013)
Runner for large ensemble (2015)
Pulse for winds, strings, piano and electric bass (2016)
Selected discography[edit]
Live/Electric Music, (Columbia, 1968)
Music for 18 Musicians, Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman harmonia mundi
Radio Rewrite, Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman harmonia mundi
Double Sextet, Ensemble Signal, Brad Lubman harmonia mundi
Drumming. Steve Reich and Musicians (Two recordings: Deutsche Grammophon and Nonesuch) So Percussion (Cantaloupe)
Music for 18 Musicians. Steve Reich and Musicians (Two recordings: ECM and Nonesuch), Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble (Innova), Ensemble Modern (RCA).
Octet/Music for a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase. Steve Reich and Musicians (ECM)
Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards/Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ/ Six Pianos. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart, Steve Reich & Musicians (Deutsche Grammophon)
Tehillim/The Desert Music. Alarm Will Sound and OSSIA, Alan Pierson (Cantaloupe)
Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint. Kronos Quartet, Pat Metheny (Nonesuch)
You Are (Variations)/Cello Counterpoint. Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, Maya Beiser (Nonesuch)
Steve Reich: Works 1965-1995. Various performers (Nonesuch).
Daniel Variations, with Variations for Vibes, Pianos and Strings. London Sinfonietta, Grant Gershon, Alan Pierson (Nonesuch)
Double Sextet/2×5, Eighth Blackbird and Bang on a Can (Nonesuch)
Piano Phase, transcribed for guitar, Alexandre Gérard (Catapult)
Reich Remixed, Nonesuch – 79552-2; 1999
Phase to Face, a film documentary about Steve Reich by Eric Darmon & Franck Mallet (EuroArts) DVD
Radio Rewrite, Alarm Will Sound, Jonny Greenwood, Vicky Chow (Nonesuch)
Books[edit]
Reich, Steve (1974). Writings About Music. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. ISBN 0-8147-7358-3.
Reich, Steve (April 1, 2002). Hillier, Paul, ed. Writings on Music, 1965–2000. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511171-0.
See also[edit]
Minimalist music
Steve Reich and Musicians
Notes[edit]
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Jump up ^ Mertens, W. (1983), American Minimal Music, Kahn & Averill, London, (p.11).
Jump up ^ Michael Nyman, writing in the preface of Mertens' book refers to the style as "so called minimal music"[vague] (Mertens p.8).
Jump up ^ "The term 'minimal music' is generally used to describe a style of music that developed in America in the late 1960s and 1970s; and that was initially connected with the composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass." Sitsky, L. (2002), Music of the twentieth-century avant-garde: a biocritical sourcebook,Greenwood Press, Westport, CT. (p.361)
Jump up ^ "Radio 3 Programmes – Composer of the Week, Steve Reich (b. 1936), Episode 1". BBC. October 25, 2010. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ Gann, Kyle (July 13, 1999). "Grand Old Youngster". The Village Voice. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ Lightcage. "Jonathan Carroll | Publishers Weekly Interview". www.jonathancarroll.com. Retrieved August 11, 2016.
Jump up ^ Paul Griffiths, "Reich, Steve [Stephen] (Michael)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
Jump up ^ Music from Mills at AllMusic
Jump up ^ Bernstein, David (2008). The San Francisco Tape Music Center. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24892-2.
Jump up ^ Malcolm Ball on Steve Reich
Jump up ^ James Baldwin (July 11, 1966). "A Report from Occupied Territory". mindfully.org. Archived from the original on June 29, 2013. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
Jump up ^ Heidi Sherman (March 27, 1999). "The Father of Sampling Speaks: Steve Reich discusses his influence on DJ culture". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 9, 2015.
Jump up ^ Liner notes for Music for a Large Ensemble
Jump up ^ Schwarz, K. Robert. Minimalists, Phaidon Press, 1996, p.84 and p.86.
Jump up ^ Taruskin, Richard (August 24, 1997). "A Sturdy Musical Bridge to the 21st Century". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ "From New York to Vermont: Conversation with Steve Reich". Stevereich.com. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Steve Reich Remix Contest – 2x5 Movement 3". Indaba Music. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Steve Reich – WTC 9/11". boosey.com. April 2011. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
Jump up ^ "Radio Rewrite, Double Sextet". bbc.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved March 5, 2013.
Jump up ^ Hans Gefors, "Steve Reich", translated by Neil Betteridge. Stockholm: Polar Music Prize, 2007 (accessed January 26, 2015).
Jump up ^ "The 2009 Pulitzer Prize Winners: Music". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved October 16, 2011. With short biography and Double Sextet data including Composer's Notes.
Jump up ^ "2009 Pulitzer Prizes for Letters, Drama and Music," The New York Times, April 20, 2009.
Jump up ^ "Commencement 2011 | New England Conservatory". Necmusic.edu. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ "BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Contemporary Music 2013".
Jump up ^ 58th International Festival of Contemporary Music, September 20, 2014. Archived September 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Imogen Tilden (March 10, 2016), "Royal College of Music honours Reich, Norrington and Jurowski", The Guardian
Jump up ^ Wise, Brian (2006). "Steve Reich @ 70 on WNYC". WNYC. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ Joana de Belém (November 12, 2006). "O passado e o presente de Steve Reich no Porto". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on January 15, 2009. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ Hutlock, Todd (September 1, 2006). "Tortoise – A Lazarus Taxon". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on September 17, 2006. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ Ratliff, Ben (March 23, 1998). "TNT : Tortoise : Review". Rolling Stone. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ "Performers: Tortoise (Illinois)". Guelph Jazz Festival. 2008. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ Stratton, Jeff (May 10, 2001). "We Have Liftoff". Broward-Palm Beach New Times. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
Jump up ^ "sad". Brainwashed.com. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ John Adams: "...For him, pulsation and tonality were not just cultural artifacts. They were the lifeblood of the musical experience, natural laws. It was his triumph to find a way to embrace these fundamental principles and still create a music that felt genuine and new. He didn't reinvent the wheel so much as he showed us a new way to ride." See for instance the articles section of the "Steve Reich Website". Retrieved January 31, 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b Emmerson, S. (2007), Music, Electronic Media, and Culture, Ashgate, Adlershot, p.68.
Jump up ^ Reich Remixed: album track listing at www.discogs.com
Jump up ^ "Questions from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Answers from". Steve Reich. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ "Steve Reich Interview with Gabrielle Zuckerman, July 2002". Musicmavericks.publicradio.org. Retrieved October 16, 2011.
Jump up ^ Petridis, Alexis (February 28, 2013). "Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead". The Guardian. Retrieved March 1, 2013.
Jump up ^ * Reich, Steve (1975). Writings on Music (New ed.). USA: New York University Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-8147-7357-5.
Further reading[edit]
K. Robert Schwarz. Minimalists. Phaidon Press, 1996.
Potter, Keith (2000). Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass. Music in the Twentieth Century series. Cambridge, UK; New York, New York: Cambridge University Press.
D. J. Hoek. Steve Reich: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press, 2002.
External links[edit]
Wikiquote has quotations related to: Steve Reich
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Steve Reich.
Official website
London Steve Reich Ensemble (official)
"biography" (in French). IRCAM.
Music and the Holocaust – Different Trains
Interviews[edit]
A Steve Reich Interview with Christopher Abbot
Two interviews with Steve Reich by Bruce Duffie (October 1985 & November 1995)
Steve Reich Interview (7/98) with Richard Kessler
Time and Motion: an interview with Steve Reich, by Robert Davidson, 1999
A Steve Reich Interview with Marc Weidenbaum, 1999
"Drumming" – Interview & analysis, selected as one of the NPR 100 most important musical works of the 20th century. RealAudio format, timing: 12:46, July 2000
In Conversation with Steve Reich, by Molly Sheridan, June 2002
Steve Reich and Beryl Korot interviewed by David Allenby, 2002
An interview in The Guardian, January 2, 2004
The Next Phase: Steve Reich talks to Richard Kessler About Redefinition and Renewal, 2004
"How Small a Thought it Takes to Fill a Whole Life" – An Interview with Not-So-Minimalist Composer Steve Reich on AdventuresInMusic.biz, 2005
A Steve Reich Interview with Hermann Kretzschmar on You Are (Variations), 2005
The beaten track, an interview with Reich, by Andrew Clements, The Guardian, October 28, 2005
An interview with Steve Reich on RTE television, National Broadcaster in Ireland, May 29, 2006
An interview with Steve Reich on musicOMH.com, October 2006
Interview: Steve Reich, by Joshua Klein, November 22, 2006.
"Steve Reich at 70" from NPR Fresh Air broadcast October 6, 2006 includes interview about "It's Gonna Rain", "Drumming", and "Tehillim" that first aired in 1999 and another on "Different Trains" from 1989 (RealAudio format, timing: 39:25)
"Video Interview (Feb. 2006)", Cité de la musique, Paris, France
"Two Arts Beating As One" – Interviews with Steve Reich and his wife Beryl Korot with video and audio clips, May 2009
"Unexplored terrain" Composer Steve Reich draws out Radiohead's melodic fragments for new work – Interview with Steve Reich about his new work, March 2013
An interview with Steve Reich at ABC, June 2014
Steve Reich at El Cultural (El Mundo), June 2014
"Steve Reich: rebelión minimalista" at El País, June 2014
Steve Reich, premio Fundación BBVA de música contemporánea, El País, February 2014
Listening[edit]
Steve Reich at UC Berkeley University Museum (November 7, 1970) Streaming audio
Steve Reich at the Whitney "October 15, 2006" MP3
Reich speaks about Daniel Variations for the South Bank Show
Others[edit]
Classical Music Pages: Steve Reich biography
"biography" (in French). IRCAM.
A Description/documentary of Steve Reich from Duke University, includes sound samples and quotes
EST: Steve Reich by Roger Sutherland
Music as a Gradual Process by Steve Reich
Steve Reich: You Are (Variations) premiere in LA (October 2004)
New York Fetes Composer Steve Reich at 70 from NPR
Fascinating rhythm. Celebrating Steve Reich. Article by Alex Ross from The New Yorker.
Steve Reich & Sonny Rollins winners of the Polar Music Prize for 2007 Press release of Polar Prize announcement
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Come Out (1966)
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Pendulum Music (1968)
Four Organs (1970)
Drumming (1970–1971)
Clapping Music (1972)
Six Pianos (1973)
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973)
Music for 18 Musicians (1974–1976)
Music for a Large Ensemble (1978)
Octet (1979)
Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards (1979)
Tehillim (1981)
Vermont Counterpoint (1982)
Eight Lines (1983)
The Desert Music (1984)
Sextet (1984)
New York Counterpoint (1985)
The Four Sections (1987)
Electric Counterpoint (1987)
Different Trains (1988)
The Cave (1993)
City Life (1994)
Proverb (1995)
Triple Quartet (1998)
Three Tales (1998–2002)
Cello Counterpoint (2003)
Daniel Variations (2006)
Double Sextet (2007)
2×5 (2008)
Mallet Quartet (2009)
WTC 9/11 (2010)
Radio Rewrite (2012)
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1990s
Paul McCartney / the Baltic states (1992)
Dizzy Gillespie / Witold Lutosławski (1993)
Quincy Jones / Nikolaus Harnoncourt (1994)
Elton John / Mstislav Rostropovich (1995)
Joni Mitchell / Pierre Boulez (1996)
Bruce Springsteen / Eric Ericson (1997)
Ray Charles / Ravi Shankar (1998)
Stevie Wonder / Iannis Xenakis (1999)
2000s
Bob Dylan / Isaac Stern (2000)
Burt Bacharach / Robert Moog / Karlheinz Stockhausen (2001)
Miriam Makeba / Sofia Gubaidulina (2002)
Keith Jarrett (2003)
B.B. King / György Ligeti (2004)
Gilberto Gil / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (2005)
Led Zeppelin / Valery Gergiev (2006)
Sonny Rollins / Steve Reich (2007)
Pink Floyd / Renée Fleming (2008)
Peter Gabriel / José Antonio Abreu / El Sistema (2009)
2010s
Björk / Ennio Morricone (2010)
Kronos Quartet / Patti Smith (2011)
Paul Simon / Yo-Yo Ma (2012)
Youssou N'Dour / Kaija Saariaho (2013)
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John Corigliano ('01): Symphony No. 2
Henry Brant ('02): Ice Field
John Adams ('03): On the Transmigration of Souls
Paul Moravec ('04): Tempest Fantasy
Steven Stucky ('05): Second Concerto for Orchestra
Yehudi Wyner ('06): Chiavi in Mano
Ornette Coleman ('07): Sound Grammar
David Lang ('08): The Little Match Girl Passion
Steve Reich ('09): Double Sextet
Jennifer Higdon ('10): Violin Concerto
Complete list
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Stephen Hartke ('01): Tituli
Fred Lerdahl ('01): Time After Time
Peter Lieberson ('02): Rilke Songs
David Rakowski ('02): Ten of a Kind
Steve Reich ('03): Three Tales
Paul Schoenfield ('03): Camp Songs
Steve Reich ('04): Cello Counterpoint
Peter Lieberson ('04): Piano Concerto No. 3
Steve Reich ('05): You Are (Variations)
Elliott Carter ('05): Dialogues
Peter Lieberson ('06): Neruda Songs
Chen Yi ('06): Si Ji (Four Seasons)
Elliot Goldenthal ('07): Grendel
Augusta Read Thomas ('07): Astral Canticle
Stephen Hartke ('08): Meanwhile
Roberto Sierra ('08): Concerto for Viola
Don Byron ('09): 7 Etudes for Solo Piano
Harold Meltzer ('09): Brion
Fred Lerdahl ('10): String Quartet No. 3
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