Steve Reich, the father...

STEVE REICH
New York, 3 de octubre de 1936

Reich es conocido por ser uno de los pioneros del minimalismo, con Philip Glass, Terry Riley y La Monte Young.

Las ideas que Reich ha desarrollado incluyen el uso de loops en cinta (tal como en sus primeras obras It's Gonna Rain y Come Out), efectos de fase repetidos (Phase Patterns, Violin Phase y Piano Phase), y nuevos conceptos musicales (Pendulum Musi y Four Organs). Estas composiciones han tenido una importante influencia en la música contemporánea americana. Luego Reich, ha seguido explorando nuevas formas de expresión musical, como Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, The Cave, City Life y Three Tales. The Guardian ha descrito a Reich como uno de los pocos compositores que "alteró la dirección de la historia de la música". En el año 2006 ha sido distinguido con el Praemium Imperiale y en el 2007 con el Polar Music Prize.

El estilo de composición de Reich ha influido a muchos otros compositores y grupos musicales, entre ellos a Philip Glass (especialmente en sus primeras obras), John Adams, la banda de rock progresivo King Crimson, el guitarrista de New Age Michael Hedges, el músico electrónico y de arte-pop Brian Eno, los compositores asociados con el festival Bang on a Can (entre ellos David Lang, Michael Gordon y Julia Wolfe), y el músico de rock indie Sufjan Stevens. Su música también ha sido una fuente de inspiración para los músicos de Ambient y Techno. Una línea melódica de su obra de 1987 Electric Counterpoint fue utilizada por The Orb en su Little Fluffy Clouds de 1991. Esta conexión ha sido honrada en un álbum de 1999 por DJs y músicos electrónicos, Reich Remixed, editado por Nonesuch Records

También ha influenciado a artistas visuales como Bruce Nauman, y ha expresado su admiración por el montaje que la coreógrafo Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker hace con sus obras ("Fase" (1983), set de cuatro de sus primeras obras; "Drumming" (1998); y "Rain", con música de "Music for 18 Musicians").

Otros coreógrafos conocidos han creado obras con la música de Reich, incluyendo a Jirí Kylían, Laura Dean. Laura Dean ha usado en sus coreografias muchas obras de Reich, como en sus obras Quartet Squared (Phase Patterns)Drumming (1975), Tehilim (1984), Impact (1985), Force Field (1986) o Space (1988).

Otros coreógrafos que han usado música de Reich son Eliot Feld, Alvin Ailey, Lar Lubovitch, Maurice Bejart, Lucinda Childs, Siobhan Davies y Richard Alston. ("Falling Angels", un montaje sobre Drumming Part I"), a Jerome Robbins para el ballet clásico de New York City ("Eight Lines") y a (1972), Square Dance (1972) Walking Dance (con música de Clapping, 1972)

Steve Reich - Eight Lines

Steve Reich works 10 discs box 65-95

Early Works (1965-70)

Disco 1 de 10

minimal

1. Come Out
2. Piano Phase
3. It's Gonna Rain, Part I
4. It's Gonna Rain, Part II
5. Four Organs

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Drumming (1970/1971)
Disco 2 de 10
for 4 pairs of tuned bongo drums, 3 marimbas, 3 glockenspiels, 2 female voices, whistling and piccolo


minimal

1. Part 1
2. Part 2
3. Part 3
4. Part 4

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Music For Mallet Instruments,
Voices And Organ -
Clapping Music - Six Marimbas
Disco 3 de 1o

minimal

1. Music For Mallet Instruments, Voices And Organ
2. Clapping Music
3. Six Marimbas

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Music for 18 Musicians, for 4 female voices & 16 instruments (1974–76)
Disco 4 de 10

Composed by Steve Reich
with Thad Wheeler, Cheryl Bensman Rowe, Nurit Tilles, Marion Beckenstein, Jeanne LeBlanc, Evan Ziporyn, Jay Clayton, Steve Reich, Leslie Scott, Bob Becker, Phillip Bush, James Preiss, Russ Hartenberger, Timothy Ferchen, Rebecca Armstrong, Edmund Niemann, Elizabeth Lim, Garry Kvistad

minimal

1. Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses
2. Music For 18 Musicians: Section I
3. Music For 18 Musicians: Section II
4. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IIIA
5. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IIIB
6. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IV
7. Music For 18 Musicians: Section V
8. Music For 18 Musicians: Sectionn VI
9. Music For 18 Musicians: Section VII
10. Music For 18 Musicians: Section VIII
11. Music For 18 Musicians: Section IX
12. Music For 18 Musicians: Section X
13. Music For 18 Musicians: Section XI
14. Music For 18 Musicians: Pulses


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Tehillim (1981)
Disco 5 de 10

for voices and ensemble

minimal
mirror rapidshare 2

1. Bonus: Eight Lines
2. Tehillim: Part 1: Fast
3. Tehillim: Part 2: Fast
4. Tehillim: Part 3: Slow
5. Tehillim: Part 4: Fast

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Steve Reich: The Desert Music
Disc 6 de 10

For chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble (1984),
text by William Carlos Williams.

minimal

1. The Desert Music: First Movement
2. The Desert Music: Second Movement
3. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part One
4. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part Two
5. The Desert Music: Third Movement, Part Three
6. The Desert Music: Fourth Movement

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New York Counterpoinnt
amplified clarinet and tape, or 11 clarinets and bass clarinet (1985)
Sextet
for percussion and keyboards (1984)
Disco 7 de 10

minimal

1. New York Counterpoinnt: Fast
2. New York Counterpoint: Slow
3. New York Counterpoint: Fast
4. Sextet: 1st Movement
5. Sextet: 2nd Movement
6. Sextet: 3rd Movement
7. Sextet: 4th Movement
8. Sextet: 5th Movement
9. Works: I. Strings
10. Works: II. Percussion
11. Works: III. Winds And Brass
12. Works: IV. Full Orchestra

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Electric Counterpoint or electric guitar or amplified acoustic guitar and tape (1987, for Pat Metheny)
Different Trains for string quartet and tape (1988)
Disco 8 de 10


Electric Counterpoint performed by Pat Metheny (Pat, you are The best!!!!)
Different Trains performed by Knonos Quartet

minimal

1. Different Trains, America--Before the War (Steve Reich)
2. Different Trains, Europe--During the War (Steve Reich)
3. Different Trains, After the War (Steve Reich)
4. Electric Counterpoint, Fast (Steve Reich)
5. Electric Counterpoint, Slow (Steve Reich)
6. Electric Counterpoint, Fast (Steve Reich)
bonus:
7. Works: Movement I
8. Works: Movement II
9. Works: Movement III

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The cave (Excerpts) (1993)
Disco 9 de 10

Opera Multimedia
For four voices, ensemble and video (with Beryl Korot)

minimal

1. The Cave: Typing Music
2. The Cave: Who Is Abraham?
3. The Cave: Who Is Ishmael?
4. The Cave: Genesis XVIII
5. The Cave: Genesis XXI
6. The Cave: The Casting Out Of Ishmael And Hager
7. The Cave: Machpelah
8. The Cave: Genesis XXV
9. The Cave: Interior Of The Cave
10. The Cave: Surah 3
11. The Cave: El Khalil Commentary
12. The Cave: Who Is Abraham?W
13. The Cave: Who Is Sarah?
14. The Cave: Who Is Hagar?
15. The Cave: Who Is Ishmael?
16. The Cave: The Binding Of Isaac
17. The Cave: The Cave Of Machpelah

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City Life (1995)
Disc 10 de 10

for amplified ensemble

minimal

1. Proverb
2. Nagoya Marimbas
3. City Life: 'Check It Out'
4. City Life: Pile Driver - alarms
5. City Life: 'It's Been A Honeymoon - Can't Take No Mo'
6. City Life: Heartbeats - Boats & Buoys
7. City Life: 'Heavy Smoke'