Signal commemorated Steve Reich‘s 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece “Double Sextet” with a performance of the work on June 22nd at (Le) Poisson Rouge. The night consisted of an early set and an added ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Minimalist composer Steve Reich, a true giant of American music, was ...

Nonesuch has been documenting Steve Reich's career for more than 20 years now, generally with the soloists and ensembles for whom each of the works was composed. This latest release brings the story ...

Like most of Reich’s oeuvre, Double Sextet (2008) explores the relationship between tempo, timing and rhythm. Its impetus stems from two identical sets of six instruments (flute, clarinet, vibraphone, ...

Few words in the musical lexicon are as inadequate as "Minimalism." And nowhere, perhaps, does the term fall shorter than in the case of Steve Reich. Celebrating the composer's 75th birthday Friday ...

When Steve Reich won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in April, many called the award long overdue. Given his revolutionary body of work, it's hard to argue. But when the new music group Signal performed ...

(The performance on this page was recorded Nov. 11 in Oberlin, Ohio. Performers: eighth blackbird, with students at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music: Leah Asher, violin; Eleanor Bors, cello; Esther ...

“Ehmor m’aht, v’ahsay harbay — Say little and do much,” the fourth movement from composer Steve Reich’s “You Are (Variations)” 2004 ensemble piece is a pithy explanation of the style that first ...

Steve Reich's influence has always spun in all directions, but even he must have surprised himself here: rock-band instruments playing in riffs and grooves with the notated precision of classical ...