Steve Reich's "Music for a Large Ensemble"

Evening Music | May 6, 2010
Written for the Holland Festival in 1978, Steve Reich's "Music for a Large Ensemble" employs just what the title says: string instruments, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, pianos, marimbas, xylophones and two female voices. Reich said of the piece that he wished to use "the human breath as the measure of musical duration."

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