Tag: Steve Reich

  • Repeating Music

    Enjoyable and educational concert by the London Sinfonietta last night; an introduction to minimalism, combined with video design and curated with quotes and extracts of interviews from the three composers programmed. Phillip Glass, Steve Reich and Terry Riley made a well paced programme which included some visually interesting pieces (Pendulum Music by Reich) and the…

  • Steve Reich at 75: LSO at the Barbican

    It is incredible to think that minimalism – be it the aesthetic, compositional technique or style – has existed for over fifty years. Steve Reich has remained at the forefront of its developments and perhaps even its success and it was a fitting tribute to his output and position as composer of significance that the…

  • Minimal content need not mean minimal effect

    Discovering one’s compositional identity or voice seems to be a process of continual discovery. I’m not certain I have one voice – perhaps I have an approach that could manifest itself in a variety of sound worlds that would fit the desired context. My last orchestral work ‘Cypher’ (2010) has a very different sound to…

  • Reich at the Barbican

    A privilege tonight to hear the LSO perform a programme of Reich music; it confirmed for me that not only is he a composer worthy of considerable attention but his music speaks to people. His voice is indeed a unique and consistent one and no matter what one’s opinion of minimalism might be, his music…