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Ads by Google Related Topics Steve Reich Tehillim Reich Steve Reich Steve Howe Steve Howe guitarist Steve Winwood      Technology serves Steve Reich yet again The tape machines and computers that Reich uses to manipulate and enhance his trademark insistent rhythms and repetitious melodies are as vital to his compositional tool box as a resonant drum or a well-tuned violin. Steve did things like 'Clapping Music,' [a duet of unaccompanied rhythmic clapping from 1972]. Following his well-received first experiments with taped sound, Reich struggled to integrate the world of playback machines and splicers with the world of orchestras and string quartets. http://www.suntimes.com/output/delacoma/sho-sunday-reich28x.html   (931 words)      Steve Reich Reich feels that it is important to distinguish his music from some currently popular modal forms of music, such as Indian classical and drug-oriented rock and roll. In Music as a Gradual Process (1968) Reich advocates the use of compositional processes which are clearly audible to the listener. Reich extends this criticism to indeterminate music as well. http://media.hyperreal.org/zines/est/articles/reich.html   (3204 words)      aworks :: "new" american classical music: reich, steve Steve Reich calls Pendulum Music the "ultimate process music." Microphones are suspended from the ceiling and swing past speakers, generating feedback. Overview of Reich's music: While a personal watershed for Reich, Tehillim is one of his most accessible works, an inspired creation that is at once uplifting, affirmative and fully conveys the sheer joy of musical expression. Whether Elliott and her producer, Timbaland, have listened to Reich is beside the point. http://rgable.typepad.com/aworks/reich_steve/index.html   (5493 words)      Music: Steve Reich Reich's rhythmic sense is very powerful and while he is not the first to use samplers, he shows what a difference a great artist can make and the piece reverberates long after it is over. In his album notes, Reich wrote that the piece "begins a new way of composing that has its roots in my early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966)." "The basic idea is that speech recording generates the musical material for musical instruments. With the occasional flapping of flags, the tinkling of cocktail glasses at the outdoor café and the soft clanking of bumpers and cables on the large yachts rolling at the piers, the concert's music started with what seemed to be the sound of foghorns and I lingered, intrigued. http://www.thecityreview.com/reich.htm   (951 words)      Malcolm Ball - Steve Reich Steve Reich will be 61 in October this year and Nonsuch records have just released a 10 CD boxed set of many key works including new recordings of Music for 18 Musicians and Four Organs. From here on Reich used augmentation, diminution and sudden as opposed to gradual phase changes in works like Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Clapping Music (born out of the desire to perform a piece needing only the human body to be present) Six Pianos and Music for Pieces of Wood. Again, musical material is developed from spoken words of interviews recorded by Reich of Israeli, Palestinian and American commentaries relating to the history of the Cave at Hebron and explores the Biblical stories of Abraham, Sarah, Ishmael and Isaac. http://members.aol.com/malcmuso/reich.htm   (1783 words)      Cantaloupe Music: Drumming Reich’s study in Africa enabled him to write music that had to be percussion music. Steve Reich was recently called "… America’s greatest living composer." (The Village VOICE), “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “...among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times).. 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. http://www.cantaloupemusic.com/CA21026.html   (1080 words)      James Wierzbicki / Steve Reich Reich produced a lot of music in those days, most of it of the sparse, angular and intellectually fashionable sort now referred to as ''post-Webernian serialism.'' In 1963 he simultaneously formed his own percussion group and shook off the restrictions of ''formulaic'' academic music. To judge from the score, Reich's new ''Three Movements for Orchestra'' seems closer in design and overall mood to his music from the late 1970s than it is to either ''Tehillim'' or ''The Desert Music.'' But clearly this is a piece in which the purposeful treatment of harmony plays a dominant role. IN AN INTERVIEW in the January, 1986, issue of Musical America, Reich noted that the mere act of scoring ''The Desert Music'' for full orchestra had a deep effect on him. http://pages.sbcglobal.net/jameswierzbicki/reich.htm   (958 words)      Talk-Reich.html REICH: I had a lot of interest in John Coltrane's music, because he was alive and playing in San Francisco. REICH: I actually had, believe it or not, an improvising group in 1963 in San Francisco. Members of that group included Jon Gibson, the reed player now with Phil Glass; Tom Constanten, who played with the Grateful Dead; and Phil Lesh, who plays bass with the Grateful Dead, but was occasionally a trumpet player in my group. http://www.o-art.org/history/50s&_60s/Minimalism/Reich/Talk-Reich.html   (1458 words)      Min-Reich.html Reich did the music for light shows and a production of Ubu Roi staged by the Mime Troupe in the deconsecrated church in the Mission that served as their headquarters. On viewing Reich's ostensibly twelve-tone string orchestra piece, Berio went so far as to suggest to his student that if he wanted to write tonal music, he should write tonal music. Just as Riley unhesitatingly credits Young with revolutionizing his whole conception of music, so Reich is equally forthright in acknowledging that the experience of In C radically changed the direction of his music. http://www.o-art.org/history/50s&_60s/Minimalism/Reich/Min-Reich.html   (1765 words)      Classical Net Review - Reich - Tehillim, etc. Like Schoenberg and Webern, Reich forces you to listen to music in a new way. The most obvious comparison is to Balinese gamelan music, although I'm not sure whether Reich (even though a percussionist) had heard actual examples at the time he began to create his own music. In the late 1970s, I began to run across his music at specialists' concerts: Music for Large Ensemble, Music for 18 Musicians (a revelatory live experience, by the way), and Music for Mallet Instruments. http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/e/ecm01215a.html   (1226 words)      Steve Reich - Reinventing Classical Music, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann Along with the other “minimalists,&; Reich proclaimed his devotion to a musical process that was perceptible throughout an entire piece, yet evolved gradually so as to invite detailed listening and concentration. Reich created a music that is genuinely novel yet respects fundamental principles. And while we're at it, let's tackle one more issue - admittedly much of this music was created at a time when young musicians and listeners were often stoned out of their gourds. http://www.classicalnotes.net/columns/reich.html   (3793 words)      Disquiet: interviews: Steve Reich (1999) Reich: I used to compose on the piano and with multi-tracked tape recorders, multi-track tape recorders. Reich: The basic idea behind "Different Trains" is that the music would come out of the voice melody of the speakers, and there isn't any fiddling [with those voices], nor in "The Cave," any fiddling with the actual pitch or speed of the speakers. Reich: That was the Orb track that put them on the map, and it had a 30-second chunk of [my composition] "Electric Counterpoint" in it. http://www.disquiet.com/stevereich-script.html   (4000 words)      Disquiet: interviews: Steve Reich, remixed Reich is hungry for more information on this new world of electronic pop music into which Remixed has opened a window, but he is also reflective of the electronic scene's place in the music continuum. Mention Reich to Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto and he immediately begins singing the vocal motif from "Come Out." Mention Reich to DJ David Holmes and his response is "Avant fuckin' garde music," meant entirely as a compliment. It gathers together nine of what Reich — who is a big self-conscious about not being entirely up to date on the trends in popular music since, say, John Coltrane — correctly describes as "another generation, completely different" of young music makers. http://www.disquiet.com/stevereich.html   (1442 words)      VH1.com : Steve Reich : Biography As Reich's trailblazing work came into fashion with the wave of late-'90s electronica, the remix album Reich Remixed appeared in 1999. Reich again applied his phasing manipulations to the recorded voice on 1966's Come Out, but with 1967's Piano Phase and Violin Phase he began employing the process on acoustic instruments. Rarely recorded throughout his first decades as an artist, during the 1980s Reich's major works finally began appearing on album, among them 1988's brilliant Different Trains, a Holocaust-inspired piece created for live string quartet, pre-recorded string quartet and sampled voices. http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/reich_steve/bio.jhtml   (373 words)      Amazon.com: Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians: Music: Composer: Steve Reich,Performer: Steve Reich Ensemble Steve Reich: Music for 18 Musicians [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED] Steve Reich has a strong following among new music lovers and it seems secure to say that he definitely has staying power. This music is not only experimental in its ways (what Reich has done is taken an 11 chord cycle and based each section on a chord), but also highly listenable and not at all abrasive to the ears. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000026258?v=glance   (1463 words)      Articles - Steve Reich Reich´s first attempt at applying this phasing technique to live performance rather than recorded work was the 1967 ´´Piano Phase´´, for two pianos. Steve Reich and Musicians (Two recordings: ECM and Nonesuch) This connection has been honored in a 1999 album by DJs and electronic musicians, ´´Reich Remixed´´, released on Nonesuch Records. http://www.rivarevo.com/articles/Steve_Reich   (2539 words)      Steve Reich MP3 Downloads - Steve Reich Music Downloads - Steve Reich Music Videos This record shows Reich playing with different styles -- it is a transitional point in his career -- which leaves the cohesiveness of the recording off-balanced. The centerpiece of the record is "Nagoya Marimbas," with a sound reminiscent of Reich's marimba work from the '60s and '70s, and for fans of this era of Reich's work it is a pleasant surprise to hear another piece in this style again. This recording brings together three disparate styles on one record showcasing Reich's compositional work. http://www.mp3.com/albums/302708/reviews.html   (370 words)      Guardian Unlimited Arts The beaten track The tribute will also include concerts by the composer's own performing group, Steve Reich and Musicians; they will perform his 1970s masterpiece Music for 18 Musicians, one of the landmarks in the early history of minimalism, and the piece that really cemented Reich's reputation internationally. With a 70th birthday coming up next year, and all the musical celebrations that entails for a composer of his international stature, Steve Reich is a busy man. Three pieces have been specially commissioned for his anniversary, and one of them has already been issued on disc. In that way the tradition of playing his music is passed on; perhaps more than any other area of contemporary music, minimalism in general, and Reich's music very specifically demands a special performing discipline of its own. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1601628,00.html   (873 words)      Reich Remixed: Various Techno Artists Remixing Steve Reich Steve Reich began his musical career in the 60's walking around San Francisco with a tape recorder picking up the sounds of the city, including a preacher's rap on Noah and the flood. Coldcut, Tranquillity Bass, Mantronik, and Howie B are a few of the DJ's mixing tracks which range from exploring a theme from a single Reich composition to blending several titles from the catalog. Reich's music comes through- the DJ's keep true to Reich's seemingly repetitive, hypnotic, yet evolving style. http://home.earthlink.net/~mjohnsen/Music_Reviews/reichre.html   (463 words)      Reich, Steve on Encyclopedia.com Master of the Minimal; Steve Reich, described by the Village Voice as America's greatest living composer, has a UK premiere in Birmingham on Thursday. Listening subjects: semiotics, psychoanalysis, and the music of John Adams and Steve Reich. Master of the Minimal ; Steve Reich, described by the Village Voice as America's greatest living composer, has a UK premiere in Birmingham on Thursday. http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/R/ReichS1t.asp   (1141 words)      NPR : Steve Reich: A Wild Compositional Ride The movement's title is "You are wherever your thoughts are," which Reich considers "a wonderful description of how we listen to music. Jeff Lunden talks with Reich about his music. Reich, who turns 69 on Oct. 3, looks forward to marking his birthday with the release of a new CD. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4862344   (319 words)      DenverPost.com - ENTERTAINMENT Such a sterile musical world was foreign to Reich, whose life was transformed at 14 when he had a kind of musical ephiphany. Rather than retreat to an ivory tower, Reich wanted to respond to everything he was hearing, from baroque music to the divergent sounds coursing through the 1960s and '70s, including African drumming, Coltrane's saxophone explorations and gamelan music. Such connections were showcased in "Reich Remixed," a 1999 compact disc that sold 50,000 copies its first year. http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_3355611   (1465 words)      Steve Reich - Classical music composer Steve Reich : A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music) Find more recordings for Steve Reich at Amazon.com Four Musical Minimalists : La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century) http://www.classical-composers.org/cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=reich   (306 words)      usOperaweb - 'Three Tales' - Beryl Korot and Steve Reich American composer Steve Reich and video artist Beryl Korot collaborated for the first time to create their 1993 video documentary opera The Cave, an epic presentation of the Biblical story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Ishmael and Isaac told by means of text, video images, live and sampled music. One thing Steve and I were involved with in our respective fields from the outset was using technologies that were part of the culture, samplers in music or video and computers, what we call the folk tools of our time. Reich has smashed the mold and created a body of work that lives almost entirely outside the linear history of Western classical music. http://www.usoperaweb.com/2002/september/threetales.htm   (5441 words)      Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot - PopMatters Concert Review Steve Reich, an award-winning and groundbreaking composer, provides the music. Four years in the making, Reich and Korot have now produced Three Tales, which premiered in May 2002 at the Vienna Music Festival and made its New York premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music last Tuesday as part of the twentieth Next Wave Festival. Ideally, the images and music would match, but Korot's work in this case was not as innovative as the music. http://www.popmatters.com/music/concerts/r/reich-steve-021019.shtml   (1546 words)      AllRefer.com - Steve Reich (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia Steve Reich, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies Reich's compositions include the film score for Plastic Haircut (1963), Drumming (1971), Music for 18 Musicians (1979), Tehillim (1981), Different Trains (1988), City Life (1994), and Triple Quartet (1999). AllRefer.com - Steve Reich (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/R/ReichSt.html   (315 words)      Guardian Unlimited Arts Arts features The Reich stuff Among the CDs that Reich picked up at HMV is Africa Brass by John Coltrane. This was the album that the American modernist composers of the early 1960s - Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Philip Glass, Reich - looked to for their initial inspiration, alongside the Motown hit Shotgun by Junior Walker. "I love his music, and I love the fact that he is such a brave, talented man," says Reich. http://arts.guardian.co.uk/homeentertainment/story/0,,1114656,00.html   (1024 words)      Steve Reich You Are (Variations) Metheny is, in fact, no stranger to Reich’s music, having recorded “Electric Counterpoint” in 1987, playing live over numerous pre-recorded tracks of guitar and bass. On Metheny lists across the internet, fans were asking “who is Steve Reich, and why the thanks?” The best answer to that question is advice to listen to You Are (Variations)—an album that summarizes much of what Reich is about, while managing to differentiate itself from the rest of his significant oeuvre. And it’s what Reich is able to do with those phrases, performed by the 46-piece Los Angeles Master Chorale, which makes it his most enthralling composition in recent years. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=19385   (584 words)      Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music Steve Reich's instrumental music includes Variations for wind, strings and keyboard, Music for 18 Musicians and a number of works that make use of unusual combinations of instruments, often a variety of percussion instruments, with recorded tape. He showed an early interest in electro-acoustic music, then in the music of Africa. Naxos Historical, Nostalgia, and Jazz Legends recordings are not available for sale and audio streaming in the United States due to the uncertain legal situation regarding pre-1972 sound recordings http://www.naxos.com/mainsite?pn=Composers&char=R&ComposerID=2465   (167 words)      Maestro's Choice, Steve Reich : Six Pianos With the build-up come new voices--that is, the addition of voices played by the musicians produces yet further voices that are not played as such by the pianists, but which can be heard as "found" melodic patterns created from the overlapping voices of the original theme. What is also called "repetitive music" is based on using a loop, such as is used in pop music especially, but with completely different objectives. We don't necessarily hear the recorder in detail; the subtlety lies in the tints that it adds to the colour of the orchestra as a whole and in the composer's control of this fine-honed arrangement. http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm8-8/Steve-Reich_en.htm   (946 words)      Steve Reich Proverb (1995), intended for the Proms and the Utrecht Early Music Festival, profits from the experience he had working on The Cave with Paul Hillier and with singers who had formed their style in medieval polyphony: based on one melodic thought, it is music of drones and rhythmically insistent counterpoint, close to Perotinus. Another theme emerged in Different Trains (1988), though only as a result of a musical formal idea which he had rejected for The Desert Music and which was to prove immensely fruitful: that of using recorded speech, as he had two decades before, but now as a source of melody. Steve Reich's Musik braucht die "menschliche Ungenauigkeit" (human tuoch, bodily involvement in making music) des Interpreten. http://www.lichtensteiger.de/steve_reich.html   (1561 words)      Steve Reich Reich's music, along with that of the other minimalists, causes us to rethink the way we listen to music. Not surprisingly, his approach, steeped in non-Western ideals, violates many of the assumptions about music that have developed in the West (harmonic goals for example, and forms based on a hierarchy of structure). Here you can find concert schedules, reviews and articles, and many links to sound samples. http://www.wwnorton.com/enjoy/shorter/composers/reich.htm   (706 words)      Steve Reich Sometimes Reich's music is able to do all of these things at once. All of Reich's music has certain signature characteristics that affect me in many ways. When I listen to his more recent works, I can see where its roots are - I can hear things that make the piece unmistakably Reich. http://www.enter.net/~bwlee/essence/reich.html   (382 words)      Amazon.com: Steve Reich 1965-1995: Music: Jay Clayton,Hugo Munday,Donald Palma,Jeanne LeBlanc,Evan Ziporyn,Leslie ... In the afterglow of his 60th birthday in 1997, Nonesuch Records delivered Steve Reich and his listeners an immense gift, this 10-CD retrospective of his work for the label, extending from his earliest tape-manipulation pieces to his most recent compositions utilizing samplers and the video artistry of Beryl Korot. Aside from the ear's liquid sense-making when it hears the dense and limber marimbas of Reich's Six Marimbas or his taut, dizzying Piano Phase, there is a physical response almost inevitable in Reich's music. Buy this album with Earbox: A 10-CD Retrospective ~ Steve Smith today! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005J4P?v=glance   (710 words)      Bang on a Can Store - Steve Reich - Drumming - So Percussion This is the first recording of its kind, in which the 4 members of So perform all nine separate percussion parts; they are joined by the singers of Reich’s own ensemble. Recorded at The Hit Factory in NYC and mixed and mastered at Sony Studios, this CD has been co-created by the Grammy award-winning producer/engineer team Grace Row and Charles Harbutt (who also captured Bang on a Can’s sound for their first Sony releases). http://www.bangonacan.org/store/item.html?sku=CA21026&cart=11159884465388218   (282 words)      WNYC - New Sounds: American Portraits: Steve Reich (August 06, 2004) Hear excerpts from Reich’s “Tehillim,” “Desert Music,” Sextet, and a live performance of “Clapping Music” featuring percussionist Glen Velez, and the composer himself. “Hey, your record is stuck in a groove,” was a common listener comment received by many stations playing music by Steve Reich in the 1980's. A weeklong on-air music festival designed to help you create the classical music library of your dreams. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/episodes/2004/08/06   (157 words)      Steve Reich ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews Steve Reich, Clapping Music (A) from the set, Two Scores, 1978 Randy Tuten, Bill Graham Presents (175) Steve Miller Band; Chicago, Fillmore West, 5/29-6/1/69, 1969 David Singer, San Francisco Rock Poster: Bill Graham Presents, Ten Years After; Steve Miller Band; Fillmore West, 7/22-27/69, 1969 http://wwar.com/masters/r/reich-steve.html   (906 words)      s t e v e r e i c h Steve Reich Site is part of Classical Music Web Ring http://home.earthlink.net/~jkannenberg/reich   (54 words)      Tehillim by Steve Reich Melodies: "People have listened to Tehillim and said. 'It's a Jewish-sounding melody.' And I say horseshit, it's a Steve Reich-sounding melody, and if I'm Jewish then it is. But it doesn't have anything to do with Hasidic melodies or Jewish folktunes. http://www.lichtensteiger.de/tehillim.html   (983 words)      Technorati Tag: Steve Rich Man's War plawiuk.blogspot.com: "Steve Earles rockin country anti-war album The Revolution Starts Now is not only a political challenge to the... ..if what Matt Stoller says is true, then I would have to add that, in the '80s, Steve Guttenberg and Tom Hanks... Become a member to save searches in a Watchlist. http://technorati.com/tag/Steve   (397 words)      SquareSound Forums - Steve Reich! I encourage you to listen to more of Reich's stuff, too. This is why I encourage you to listen to his stuff! Steve Reich and John Adams, great minimalist composers. http://www.squaresound.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1132   (343 words)      Les said, the better: Steve Reich It's a great piece, and has definitely influenced my whole compositional life and most of the long papers I've written on experimental music. It's inspiring that it makes lasting music that's still worth listening to. But I can say, unequivocably, that Reich was a progressive, on the correct side of social isues and he did good work. http://celesteh.blogspot.com/2004/12/steve-reich.html   (1006 words)      American Mavericks: An interview with Steve Reich STEVE REICH: When I was 14, life really changed musically. And the seeds for whoever I’ve become were sown in that year. http://musicmavericks.publicradio.org/features/interview_reich.html   (9548 words)      Steve Reich - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links Steve Reich - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links Browse artists: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z # http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,483841,00.html   (103 words)      NewMusicBox Or perhaps it was because the music had spoken directly to the senses, with the sound itself never sacrificed for the more intellectual rhythmic side of the piece. The simple fact that 13 musicians had performed intricate rhythms with amazing precision for an hour and half no doubt had a lot to do with it. Because Reich always limits his materials so severely, unity is never a problem, and there is enough difference between the four sections of the piece so that it is never quite boring either. http://www.newmusicbox.org/page.nmbx?id=48vw03   (373 words)      Steve Reich - Drumming, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic Steve Reich - Drumming, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic Steve Reich's milestone 1971 work "Drumming," written for nine percussionists, two vocalists and piccolo, accomplished two things: while elegantly distilling Reich's ideas about music -- merging Western, European-focused classical music with exuberant, sophisticated "world music" traditions (in this case, drumming styles of Ghana), it also fathered a whole new repertory of works for percussion ensemble. Release Date: Tue Mar 08 00:00:00 EST 2005 http://www.emusic.com/album/10859/10859929.html   (239 words)      Steve Reich- early tape pieces While we had chosen "Pendulum Music" to use and were able to get comments from Reich about the piece, he was also generous enough to talk about his early tape pieces also. As I was doing research for OHM- THE EARLY GURUS OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC (Ellipsis Arts), I had the pleasure of interviewing many of the composers that were being included in this compilation. Though these historic works were not also included in the release, I thought this material was important enough to share with the online world. http://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/reich2.html   (1108 words)      Steve Reich interview- Pendulum Music Here's a piece that's been unrecorded for 30 years and now I've got two recordings of it! Also see Reich's comments on his early tape pieces Check out the rest of PERFECT SOUND FOREVER http://www.furious.com/perfect/ohm/reich.html   (547 words)      New Milford Spectrum Steve Reich: always a ‘hero’ And while Steve would always listen to his coaches, Dave Werkhoven said, mostly, they just let him pitch his own game. Major Reich is the second area man to die in the wars of the Middle East. When Steve Reich took the mound for Shepaug Valley High School in the 1980s, he stood in perfect control – of his pitches, his mind, his emotions. http://www.spectrum.newmilford.com/story.php?id=64121   (1116 words)      Steve Reich --  Encyclopædia Britannica The son of an attorney and a singer-lyricist, Reich majored in philosophy at Cornell University (1953–57), then studied composition at Juilliard School of Music before taking his master's degree from Mills&; He made use of atonality, but his work showed a dependence upon the strict forms of Bach and Mozart and was referred to as neoclassic. born October 3, 1936, New York, N.Y., U.S., byname of Stephen Michael Reich American composer who was one of the leading exponents of minimalism, a style based on repetitions and combinations of simple motifs and harmonies. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9001185   (635 words)

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