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reich, steve. March April 2000. steve reich is a leading pioneerof Minimalism and his music has been performed by the New York
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Extractions: Montgomery Fellows Home About Us Biographies... Biographies by Date ... Steering Committee Steve Reich is a leading pioneer of Minimalism and his music has been performed by the New York Philharmonic, the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the St. Louis Symphony, the BBC Symphony, and the Boston Symphony. In 1990 he received a Grammy Award for Best Composition for Different Trains , which marked a new compositional method, and in 1994 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dance companies and choreographers ranging from the New York City Ballet, Jiri Kylian, Alvin Ailey, Eliot Feld, and Laura Dean have used Reich's music. The Cave is a video piece exploring the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac, which has been performed worldwide. Additional Biography Information courtesy of Google.com
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Steve Reich
Article that originally appeared in EST 3, and also appears in slightly different form in Roger Sutherland's book, New Perspectives in Music
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Extractions: ESTWeb Main Index ESTWeb Articles Index References Brief Biography of Steve Reich This article originally appeared in EST #3, and also appears in slightly different form in Roger Sutherland's book, New Perspectives in Music "Systems Music" is a term which has been used to describe the work of composers who concern themselves with sound continuums which evolve gradually, often over very long periods of time. The most well-known of these composers are Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and La Monte Young. The most striking feature of their work is repetitiveness or stasis. Their works contain little or no variation of pitch, tempo, dynamics or timbre. Certainly, their work exhibits virtually none of the characteristic concerns of traditional Western music, such as harmonic movement, key modulation or thematic development. Four Organs where a single chord is gradually stretched out to a duration of several minutes. Systems composers appear to have worked largely outside the mainstreams of both European and American music, drawing inspiration instead from various ethnic musical forms - Ghanian and Balinese music in Reich's case, Japanese Gagaku in the case of Young. Many other influences can be discerned. Such non-Western musical forms, as Young has observed , involve stasis in contrast to climax or directionality. But systems music also relates to some aspects of contemporary Western music. Young has cited the "unchanging chord" in Schoenberg's
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In The First Person: Steve Reich
Interview by Richard Kessler of the American Music Center.
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Extractions: Steve Reich Interview (7/98) Richard Kessler, Executive Director of the American Music Center, talks with Steve Reich. 1. Starting Out RK: How do you feel the music business has changed over the last thirty years? SR: Well, thirty years ago I had just returned to New York City from San Francisco. Basically, John Cage was the most important thing in town; Morton Feldman was active; The younger people were James Tenney and Phil Corner and Malcolm Goldstein , and Charles Wuorinen . At that time, the American composers were either under the "downtown" influence of John Cage or the "uptown" influence of Boulez Stockhausen Berio and company. But the sad fact is that musically, everybody was under the influence of music that was not "pulsitile," [not with a regular beat]. You can't tap your foot to either Boulez or John Cage, nor could you know where you were tonally. The idea of cadence, any sense of tonal center, melody in any sense of the word including even some Schoenberg was pretty hard to put your ear on. So I felt sort of out of it and very much alone. I had contact with Terry Riley , and LaMonte Young was active, but we weren't very close at that time. So, there was precious little outside of the individual musicians that I worked with at that time. Arthur Murphy, the pianist and composer out of
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Extractions: Reich Steve: more books (9) Writings on Music, 1965-2000 by Steve Reich (Editor), Paul Hillier (Introduction) - Hardcover - April 2002 Gamelan Gong Kebyar: The Art of Twentieth-Century Balinese Music by Michael Tenzer, Steve Reich - Paperback - June 2000 Steve Reich: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music, No. 89) by D. J. Hoek - Hardcover - November 2001 In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Steve Reich was considered a fringe experimentalist. His work consisted largely of repeating, slowly changing patterns unlike either the serialism or the aleatory that predominated at that time. Today, however, Reich is one of the most prominent and celebrated contemporary composers, ... Read more Four Musical Minimalists: LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century) by Keith Potter - Hardcover - June 2000 This book offers a biographical and musical survey of four American composersLa Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glasswho are widely regarded as the first musical minimalists. While attentive to cultural as well as biographical concerns, Keith Potter's main focus is the music of these composers during the period up to the mid-1970s and it discusses these works in greater detail than any previous publications have attempted. ...
Reich, Steve
reich, steve reich, steve. Period Late 20th Century. Born Saturday,October 3, 1936 in New York, New York (USA). As of December 2002
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Steve Reich: The Composer And His Critics
Academic Paper
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Extractions: Steve Reich was born in New York City in 1936, the son of musical parents. As a teenager, he took lessons in piano and drums, but never passed beyond an intermediate level. He attended Cornell University, graduating in 1957 with a B. A. in philosophy. But his interest in his music classes led him to study with the noted jazz arranger Hall Overton, and to take composition classes at Julliard, where he met Philip Glass. In 1961, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and attended Mills College, where he received his M. A. in 1963. At Mills, he studied with the renowned composers Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio, and began a lifelong interest in ethnic musics from Asia and Africa. In 1963, Reich began frequenting the San Francisco Tape Music Center, experimenting with electronic music and musique concrete. Around this time, he met Terry Riley, and helped organize the first performance of Riley's "In C" in 1964. After moving back to New York in 1965, he continued his composition for tape media while working at odd jobs and becoming familiar with the so-called "loft scene" of artists in the SoHo district. 1966 saw the founding of Steve Reich and Musicians, a flexible group of performers which he assembled to play his own music. Over the years, the size would fluctuate anywhere between three and forty musicians.
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Artsworld links Classical Music, Jazz and Opera on Artsworld TV, Biography stevereich Composer USA Born 3 Oct 1936 To many, steve reich means minimalism, along
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Extractions: To many, Steve Reich means minimalism, along with Terry Riley and Philip Glass: endless repetition of small variations, infinite restating of minor changes, eternal reiteration of tiny developments, unceasing rephrases of little alterations, endless repetition, infinite restating, eternal reiteration, unceasing rephrases, endless, infinite, eternal , unceasing... you get the idea. But beyond the glib jokes there's a lot of serious music, which not only appealed to mass audiences, but also influenced a whole generation of composers. In particular, he has caused many to stop thinking of music purely in terms of Western-style tonal systems, and opened their ears to African and Eastern ideas of highly complex rhythmic systems. Steve Reich, born to the appropriately insistent street rhythms of New York, began as a percussionist. He read philosophy at Cornell before studying composition, first at the Juilliard and then at Mills College in California. There, studying with Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud, he was inspired by music of Bali and of Africa, travelling to Ghana in 1971 to study drumming with the Ewe tribe. The slowly shifting repetitive patterns of stress, energy and beat he heard resulted in his first works, which were all for percussion. ('Clapping Music' of 1972 didn't even require any instruments, just two pairs of hands.) Reich was intrigued by systems which started in phase and gradually moved out of step to produce complex results. In Pendulum Music, two microphones are suspended above upturned speakers and then set into motion. As each swings over the center of the speaker, it creates feedback. Since the differing lengths of the microphone wire create a different period of swing, the two sounds keep changing their relationship to each other. And as the force of gravity works on them, they both head toward a 'steady state' of feedback.
In The First Person: Steve Reich
Interview by Richard Kessler of the American Music Center.Category Arts Music Composition Composers R reich, steve steve reich Interview (7/98) Richard Kessler, Executive Director of the AmericanMusic Center, talks with steve reich. steve reich (photo John Halpern).
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Extractions: Steve Reich Interview (7/98) Richard Kessler, Executive Director of the American Music Center, talks with Steve Reich. 1. Starting Out RK: How do you feel the music business has changed over the last thirty years? SR: Well, thirty years ago I had just returned to New York City from San Francisco. Basically, John Cage was the most important thing in town; Morton Feldman was active; The younger people were James Tenney and Phil Corner and Malcolm Goldstein , and Charles Wuorinen . At that time, the American composers were either under the "downtown" influence of John Cage or the "uptown" influence of Boulez Stockhausen Berio and company. But the sad fact is that musically, everybody was under the influence of music that was not "pulsitile," [not with a regular beat]. You can't tap your foot to either Boulez or John Cage, nor could you know where you were tonally. The idea of cadence, any sense of tonal center, melody in any sense of the word including even some Schoenberg was pretty hard to put your ear on. So I felt sort of out of it and very much alone. I had contact with Terry Riley , and LaMonte Young was active, but we weren't very close at that time. So, there was precious little outside of the individual musicians that I worked with at that time. Arthur Murphy, the pianist and composer out of
In The First Person: Steve Reich
steve reich Biography steve reich has been recognized internationally as one ofthe world's foremost living composers. steve reich (photo John Halpern).
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Extractions: Steve Reich Biography Steve Reich has been recognized internationally as one of the world's foremost living composers. From his early taped speech works It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to The Cave (1993) his collaboration with the video artist Beryl Korot, Mr. Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. Mr. Reich's work has been hailed by the Washington Post as "absolutely spellbinding....so original in impulse and form that it challenges all past assumptions about the goals of the art....intensely visceral and frequently almost hallucinogenic in impact." Born in New York (1936), and raised there and in California, Mr. Reich graduated with honors in Philosophy from Cornell University in 1957. For the next two years, he studied composition with Hall Overton, and from 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Juilliard School of Music with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti. Mr. Reich received his M.A. in Music from Mills College in 1963, where he worked with Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio. During the summer of 1970, with the help of a grant from the Institute for International Education, Mr. Reich studied drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra. In 1973 and 1974 he studied Balinese Semar Pegulingan and Gamelan Gambang at the American Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle and Berkeley, California. From 1976 to 1977 he studied the traditional forms of cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew scriptures in New York and Jerusalem. In 1966 Steve Reich founded his own ensemble of three musicians, which rapidly grew to eighteen members or more. Since 1971, Steve Reich and Musicians have frequently toured the world, and have the distinction of performing to sold-out houses at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and the Bottom Line cabaret.
Reich, Steve. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
2001. reich, steve. 1. See his Writings about Music (1974); W. Mertens, AmericanMinimal Music La Monte Young, Terry Riley, steve reich (1983), 2.
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Extractions: ESTWeb Main Index ESTWeb Articles Index References Brief Biography of Steve Reich This article originally appeared in EST #3, and also appears in slightly different form in Roger Sutherland's book, New Perspectives in Music "Systems Music" is a term which has been used to describe the work of composers who concern themselves with sound continuums which evolve gradually, often over very long periods of time. The most well-known of these composers are Steve Reich, Philip Glass, and La Monte Young. The most striking feature of their work is repetitiveness or stasis. Their works contain little or no variation of pitch, tempo, dynamics or timbre. Certainly, their work exhibits virtually none of the characteristic concerns of traditional Western music, such as harmonic movement, key modulation or thematic development. Four Organs where a single chord is gradually stretched out to a duration of several minutes. Systems composers appear to have worked largely outside the mainstreams of both European and American music, drawing inspiration instead from various ethnic musical forms - Ghanian and Balinese music in Reich's case, Japanese Gagaku in the case of Young. Many other influences can be discerned. Such non-Western musical forms, as Young has observed , involve stasis in contrast to climax or directionality. But systems music also relates to some aspects of contemporary Western music. Young has cited the "unchanging chord" in Schoenberg's
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Emory University steve reich Includes biography and list of works.steve reich - Includes list of works, bibliography, and pictures.
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Index of Artists Browse by Artist reich, steve Artist reich, steve. TitleThe Desert Music, Tehillim. Label CANTALOUPE. Format CD. Price $17.00.
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Extractions: Artist: REICH, STEVE Title: The Desert Music, Tehillim Label: CANTALOUPE Format: CD Price: Catalog #: CA 21009 "Cantaloupe presents two Reich masterpieces, definitively performed by Alarm Will Sound and Ossia, led by Alan Pierson. The disc features the world premiere recording of the newly revised version of 'The Desert Music'. It is also the debut of a brilliant young American conductor, who has molded an energetic, tight, optimistic, rhythmic and memorable sound out of these monumental works. About the performance: 'A truly outstanding ensemble. Their recording of Tehillim is an absolute knockout... and this recording sets the standard for how The Desert Music is to be performed. Alan Pierson brings a new generation of expertise and energy that is clearly heard in the faster tempos used throughout.' Steve Reich." Previous Page Index of Artists Next Page
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reich,steve (1936). Sex, Male. Comments, New York counterpoint. Written, 1985.Duration, Comments, Commissioned by the Fromm Music Foundation for Richard Stoltzman.
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Extractions: Inst. Piccolo, Flute, English Horn, Clarinet in Bb (2), Bassoon, Percussion (6), Synthesizer (2), Soprano (3), Alto, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Double Bass Inst. Piccolo, Flute, English Horn, Clarinet in Bb (2), Bassoon, Percussion (6), Electric Organ (2), Soprano (3), Alto, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Double Bass Inst. Piccolo, Flute, English Horn, Clarinet in Bb (2), Percussion (6), Synthesizer (2), Soprano (3), Alto, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Double Bass Inst. Piccolo, Flute, English Horn, Clarinet in Bb (2), Percussion (6), Electric Organ (2), Soprano (3), Alto, Violin (2), Viola, Cello, Double Bass Grade Comments Prepared on Fri Jan 24 20:07:56 2003
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/documentary of steve reich his background, his progressionthrough musical styles and techniques, and his works.A
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Extractions: A Description/documentary of Steve Reich - his background, his progression through musical styles and techniques, and his works. "The truth, however, is that a composer need not work in isolation; there is no reason for us to suppose that Reich's popularity and commercial success brands him as a cult figure unworthy of our attention." - Robert Schwarz Although Steve Reich himself does not prefer the term "minimalism," many have classified Reich as such a composer. Schwarz defines minimalism as "an asthetic which deliberately and severely restricts the materials and resources that the artist, composer, or dramatist employs in his conceptions." Others have labelled Reich by the process which Reich himself pioneered: phase music. Phase music is the cyclical repetition of an audio clip, musical lick, rhythm, etc. While another cyclical repetition of the same item is done at a slightly different tempo, eventually producing two cycles that are out of phase with each other. Confused? That's ok. In this case, hearing is much easier in than reading. Reich's minimalism comes out of a reaction against the insanely structured order of serialism and total serialism. Ironically, he similarly reacted to John Cage's "chance" music, as both used structures that were practically invisible to the listener, whether the structures are based on mathematical layout, or by laying out notes according to imperfections, respectively. These reactions have led to a style that is distinctively Reichian:
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Steve Reich Artworks And Fine Art At Arthistorynet.com
steve reich art artwork and indepth artistic information such as paintings, sculpture,photography Untitled (rejected plate), unpublished, 1978 Pendulum (B
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