Conversations With... Steve Reich

A conversation with American minimalist composer Steve Reich.
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Last month I had the privilege of travelling to New York to speak to one of America’s most influential and important musical minds-Steve Reich. The New Yorker called him “the most original musical thinker of our time”, The Guardian said he can “legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history”, and The New York Times described his work as some of the most important American music ever written. Our conversation touched on his philosophy, influences, compositions, and how there’s music in everything that we say.
00:00 - Introduction
00:44 - Speech Melody
07:16 - Acoustic v Electronic Instruments
10:46 - Tonality and Simplicity
16:21 - New York City
19:43 - Wittgenstein, Musical Clarity, and Music History Classes
24:42 - Background to Different Trains
32:31 - Tempo in Different Trains
40:45 - The Desert Music and Pre-Planning Pieces
44:36 - Acknowledgements
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