#3253: Happy Birthday, Steve Reich

New Sounds | Oct 3, 2013

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Steve Reich, one of the founding fathers of minimalism, and one whose influence is vast and wide over rockers, electronic musicians, choreographers and visual artists, also dubbed "the hippest composer alive," (Schaefer, 2006) celebrates his birthday today. To mark the occasion, we'll hear an hour devoted to Steve Reich & his music - the less well-known pieces.

PROGRAM #3253 Steve Reich's Birthday (First aired on 10/3/11)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
So Percussion	Live from the Chelsea Art Museum on May 22, 2011	Reich: Clapping Music [:50]	This performance not commercially available.
Tonkunstler-Orchester Niederosterreich; Kristjan Jarvi, conductor	Reich: The Desert Music; Three Movements	Reich: Three Movements for Orchestra [14:21]	Chandos CHSA 5091 Available at Amazon.com*, Emusic.com, iTunes
Anonymous 4, Jim Preiss, percussion Thad Wheeler, percussion	Live, Church of St. Ann’s, 1999	Reich: Know What is Above You [3:16]	WNYC Commissions 1 This performance not commercially available.
London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, Edmund Niemann, piano, Nurit Tilles, piano	Steve Reich: The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices & Organ	Reich: the Four Sections, finale [6:09]	Nonesuch 79220 www.nonesuch.com Available at Amazon.com*, Emusic.com
So Percussion	WTC 9/11	Mallet Quartet [14:35]	Nonesuch 528236 www.nonesuch.com Available at Amazon.com*, Emusic.com
eighth blackbird	Double Sextet/2x5	Double Sextet, finale[6:50]	Nonesuch 519823 www.nonesuch.com Available at Amazon.com*, Emusic.com

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