Features
Tuesday, July 17 2007
Part 2: Janis Ian to Jimi Hendrix (1966-1970)
Music truly is the universal language. The best songs of protest are passed around, from movement-to-movement, era-to-era; its singers gaining multilingual fluency along the way.
Columns
Wednesday, August 8 2007
The Sounds of Now: Steve Reich and the Transmogrification of the Banal
As human beings, interpretive animals that attempt to navigate the world by coming to some sort of "understanding" of it, we are addicted to purpose.
Reviews
Friday, December 2 2011
Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet: WTC 9/11, Mallet Quartet, Dance Patterns
Much like Gavin Bryars' "The Sinking of the Titanic," composer Steven Reich applies his minimal composition technique to address a great tragedy. The remaining works on this CD don't even come close to following suit.
Thursday, March 31 2011
'Steve Reich: Phase to Face' Suffers from Restraint
Do you hear that? It's the sound of the surface barely being scratched over Steve Reich's career.
Monday, November 1 2010
Steve Reich: Double Sextet/2x5
In 2009, composer Steve Reich received the Pulitzer Prize for his composition "Double Sextet". Nonesuch's pairing of "Double Sextet" with a similar composition, "2x5", produces a mixed bag.
Wednesday, May 7 2008
Steve Reich: Daniel Variations
The acclaimed minimalist composer’s concept piece inspired by slain journalist Daniel Pearl is just as baffling in execution as it is in theory.
News
Thursday, January 7 2010
The Reich stuff: Pulitzer-winning composer creates offbeat work
PALO ALTO, Calif. — For a composer whose work is heavily steeped in repetition, Steve Reich doesn't stay in the same place for very long,…
