finetune artist: Steve Reich

b. Stephen Michael Reich, 3 October 1936, New York City, USA. Reich studied philosophy at Cornell University and composition at Juilliard School of Music and, moving to California, at Mills College with avant garde composers Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud. He supported himself while at college by working as a drummer, but declined to follow an academic career and became a taxi-driver in 1963. In 1966 he formed a group, Steve Reich And Musicians, to play his compositions. In the 70s he studied African drumming in Ghana and gamelan music and Hebrew cantillation in the USA. One of the founders of the Minimalist/Systems/Process/Repetitive (choose your own label) school, his music is deeply rooted in African, Balinese and Baroque music, having less overt connections with (and less influence on) rock and new age than, say, Terry Riley, Louis Andriessen or Philip Glass.

Listen to Steve Reich at Finetune.

(2008) Daniel Variations
(2007) New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs
(2006) Music for 18 Musicians
(2006) Phases
(2006) Reich: Remixed 2006
(2005) Triple Quartet
(2005) The Cave
(2005) Music for 18 Musicians
(2005) Drumming
(2005) Early Works
(2005) The Four Sections / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
(2005) Three Tales
(2005) The Desert Music
(2005) Works 1965-1995
(2005) Proverb / Nagoya Marimba / City Life
(2005) Sextet / Six Marimbas
(2005) You Are
(2005) Tehillim/Three Movements
(2001) Triple Quartet

Music for 18 Musicians: Pulses
Proverb
Electric Counterpoint - Fast (movement 3)
Eight Lines (Octet) (1979)
Different Trains - America-Before the War (movement 1)