 |
|
|
Steve Reich - Early life and work | A Wisdom Archive on Steve Reich - Early life and work | | Steve Reich - Early life and work A selection of articles related to Steve Reich - Early life and work | |
|
|
More material related to Steve Reich can be found here:
|
|
|
| | |
Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Selected Discography, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - Works, Arvo Pärt, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Meredith Monk, John Adams, Sol Lewitt, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Richard Serra, Bruce Nauman, Michael Nyman
| | |
|
ARTICLES RELATED TO Steve Reich - Early life and work | | | |  Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Early life and workWhile Reich was born in New York, his childhood years were split between divorced parents in New York and California. 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, and began studying drums with Roland Koloff in order to play jazz. His college years were spent at Cornell, where he took ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Early life and work |
| |
|
| | | | Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Influence Reich's style of composition has influenced many other composers and musical groups, including Philip Glass (especially his early pieces), John Adams, the rock band King Crimson, the art-pop and electronic musician Brian Eno, the composers associated with the Bang on a Can festival (including David Lang and Julia Wolfe), and indie rock musician Sufjan Stevens. His music has also been a source of inspiration to ambient and techno musicians. A melodic line from his 1987 work Electric Counterpoint was used by The Orb in their 1991 hit "L ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Influence |
| |
|
| | | | Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Reich on himself "[...] I drove a cab in San Francisco, and in New York I worked as a part-time social worker. Phil Glass and I had a moving company for a short period of time. I did all kinds of odd jobs [...] I started making a living as a performer in my own ensemble. I would never have thought that it was how I was going to survive financially. It was a complete wonder."
From an interview with Gabrielle Zuckerman, 2002 (see Links)
"The point is, if you went to Paris and dug up Debussy and said, 'Excusez-moi Monsieur…are you an impr ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Reich on himself |
| |
|
| | | | Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - New directions 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.
The two collaborated again on the opera Three Tales, which concerns the Hindenburg disaster, ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - New directions |
| |
|
| | | | Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - The 1980s Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of political themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage. Tehillim (1981), Hebrew for psalms, is the first of Reich's works to draw on his Jewish background. The work is in four parts, 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) ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - The 1980s |
| |
|
| | | | Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism Early on, Reich was influenced by fellow minimalist Terry Riley. Riley's loosely structured aleatoric 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. Written in 1965, It's Gonna Rain is made up of recordings of a sermon about the end of the world given by the African American Pentecostal preacher Brother Walter. The sermon was transferred to multiple tape loops played in and o ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism |
| |
|
| | | | Steve Reich - Early life and work: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - The 1970s Four Organs (1970) deals specifically with augmentation, and was based on a piece written in 1967, Slow Motion Sound, which was more of a prototype piece. Having never been performed, the idea of slowing down a recorded sound until many times its original length without changing pitch or timbre was applied to Four Organs. The result was a piece with maracas playing a fast quaver pulse, while the four organs stress certain quavers using an 11th chord. This work therefore dealt with rhythmic change and repetition. It is un ...
See also:Steve Reich, Steve Reich - Early life and work, Steve Reich - Process music and Minimalism, Steve Reich - The 1970s, Steve Reich - The 1980s, Steve Reich - New directions, Steve Reich - Influence, Steve Reich - Reich on himself, Steve Reich - Works, Steve Reich - Selected Discography Read more here: » Steve Reich: Encyclopedia II - Steve Reich - The 1970s |
| |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
More material related to Steve Reich can be found here:
|
|
|
|
| |
