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Stephen Michael Reich (/ r aɪ ʃ / RYSHE; [1] [2] born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. [3] [4] [5] Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm, and canons.
At age 86, composer Steve Reich is going strong with a collaboration with painter Gerhard Richter and other recent works at the L.A. Phil, among other projects.
Steve Reich Ensemble playing Different Trains (from left to right) Liz Lim-Dutton, violin, Todd Reynolds, violin, Jeanne LeBlanc, cello, Scott Rawls, viola, Russ Hartenberger at the back. Steve Reich and Musicians, sometimes credited as the Steve Reich Ensemble, is a musical ensemble founded and led by the American composer Steve Reich (born 1936).
Music for 18 Musicians is a minimalist album by composer Steve Reich recorded between April–December 1976 and released on the ECM New Series in April 1978—his first of three releases for the label. The ensemble features eighteen musicians, including Reich himself playing the part of piano and marimba, playing Reich's titular composition. [1 ...
Steve Reich's earlier work had frequently used tape, looped and played back at different speeds. However, Different Trains was a novel experiment, using recorded speech as a source for melodies . Structure
Drumming is a piece by minimalist composer Steve Reich, dating from 1970–1971. [1] Reich began composition of the work after a short visit to Ghana and observing music and musical ensembles there, especially under the Anlo Ewe master drummer Gideon Alorwoyie. His visit was cut short after contracting malaria. Classical music critic K. Robert ...
Reich was asked to edit down tape footage into a form of collage for a benefit for the Harlem Six and Come Out was a byproduct of the collage's production. [1] The Harlem Six were six black youths arrested for a murder of Margit Sugar, a Hungarian refugee, in Harlem in the weeks following the Little Fruit Stand Riot of 1964. [ 2 ]
Steve Reich in 1976. Six Pianos is a minimalist piece for six pianos by the American composer Steve Reich. It was completed in March 1973. He also composed a variation for six marimbas, called Six Marimbas, in 1986. [1] The world première performance of Six Pianos was in May 1973 at the John Weber Gallery in New York City.