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unusual facts about Steve Reich: Triple Quartet


Steve Reich: Triple Quartet

Alan Pierson conducts Alarm Will Sound and the Ossia Ensemble from the Eastman School of Music, which perform Reich's 1978 Music for a Large Ensemble.


Andrew Poppy

One of the least internationally known of British minimalist composers, Poppy was a founding member (in 1981) of The Lost Jockey, a large ensemble dedicated to the performance of new works by British composers composed in the style of such composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Louis Andriessen.

Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

It helped to popularize the works of composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass; the Center has also hosted shows by performers ranging from the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra to Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

Béla Quartet

They were united by their desire both to champion the contemporary repertoire : George Crumb, György Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Kaija Saariaho, Béla Bartók, Steve Reich, Raphaël Cendo, Marco Stroppa, Henri Dutilleux...

Clytus Gottwald

Among the composers who wrote music for the ensemble are Pierre Boulez, Brian Ferneyhough, Vinko Globokar, Gérard Grisey, Heinz Holliger, Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, György Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki, Steve Reich, Dieter Schnebel, and Hans Zender.

Concert etiquette

Steve Reich's Four Organs at Carnegie Hall in 1973 featured audience members sarcastically applauding and shouting to hasten the end of the performance.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

In 1990, composer Steve Reich's piece, Different Trains, which incorporated soundbites from the Fortunoff testimonies, won a Grammy Award for best contemporary classical composition.

Gothenburg Combo

They have performed very virtuous pieces by the likes of Henrik Strindberg, Steve Reich and Mauricio Kagel.

Holy minimalism

With the growing popularity of minimalist music in the 1960s and 1970s, which often broke sharply with prevailing musical aesthetics of serialism and aleatoric music, many composers, building on the work of such minimalists as Terry Riley, Philip Glass and Steve Reich, began to work with more traditional notions of simple melody and harmony in a radically simplified framework.

Jacob ter Veldhuis

Many of his works build melodies around samples of the human voice, as in Steve Reich's composition 'Different Trains'.

Love Is Lost

James Murphy's "Hello Steve Reich Mix" was released as the fifth single from Bowie's 24th studio album The Next Day as a promotion for The Next Day Extra, a special edition of bonus tracks, remixes, and music videos.

Mario Pacheco

In addition, he released assorted music created by British rock music groups Joy Division, New Order and The Smiths; minimalist musician Steve Reich; jazzists Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett Pat Metheny and Art Pepper, and Cuban music compilations of Bola de Nieve and Benny Moré.

Paul Fromm

During the period 1984-89, Earle Brown, then president of the Fromm Music Foundation, recommended many American composers for commissions including Daniel Asia, David Lang, William Susman, Henry Brant and Steve Reich.

Peter Quanz

Quanz’s redeveloped his style in 2009 with In Tandem, a work set to Steve Reich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning score Double Sextet.

Real Art Ways

Real Art Ways has also hosted notable performances by John Cage, Philip Glass, Ornette Coleman, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, Allen Ginsberg and others.

River East Collegiate

Performing pieces from such prestigious contemporary composers as John Cage and Steve Reich, the "CME" (as it's come to be known) is always prepared to make listeners say: "What the heck was that!?"

Sarah Ioannides

Ioannides has conducted several premieres and has collaborated with composers including Louis Andriessen, Richard Danielpour, Stephen Paulus, Steve Reich and Tan Dun; she served as assistant conductor on international tours with Tan for four seasons.

Shandar

Shandar was a French record label specializing in avant-garde material that did seminal work during the 1970 releasing, among others, recordings by Albert Ayler, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Sunny Murray, Philip Glass, Richard Horowitz, Charlemagne Palestine, La Monte Young, Alan Silva, Pandit Pran Nath, Terry Riley, Cecil Taylor and Sun Ra.

The California EAR Unit

At one of the first concerts in 1982, in a bank building in downtown Los Angeles, they presented a program that included works by Steve Reich, Pierre Boulez, Frederic Rzewski, and Donald Martino.

The Desert Music and Other Poems

Parts of "Theocritus: Idyl I" and "The Orchestra" were used in The Desert Music, a composition for chorus and orchestra or voices and ensemble by Minimalist composer Steve Reich in 1984.

The Gig Bag

In the first Season The Gig Bag often focus' on local Australian musicians such as Adrian Sherriff, Tom Barton, James Hullick and the Amplified Elephants, but has often had the opportunity to interview international personalities such as Steve Reich, Larry Hartke and Roger Sadowsky.

The Way Up

The tunes are apparently influenced by the works of contemporary composer Steve Reich, with whom Pat Metheny has collaborated in the past.

Thomas Rosenkranz

Rosenkranz has appeared onstage with many notable contemporary musicians, including Nicole Cabell, Alarm Will Sound, Steve Reich, Signal Ensemble, and So Percussion.

Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

For the fourth 3-year cycle (2007-2009), the selection by the Advisors Committee members and the previous judges were Akira Nishimura (2007), Steve Reich (2008) and Helmut Lachenmann (2009).

William Eddins

Eddins has collaborated with such contemporary composers as Steve Reich, Steven Stucky, Oskar Morawetz, Malcolm Forsyth, Allan Gilliland, John Estacio, and Aaron Jay Kernis.


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