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Steve Reich was recently called "America's greatest living composer
by The Village Voice. His most recent work is the digital
video/music theater Three Tales (2002) done in collaboration with
Beryl Korot. Paul Hiller is a singer, conductor, and writer on
music. He performs ith his own early music Theatre of Voices, and
with many other ensembles. He recently won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize
for Music, for his
composition Double Sextet.
"Steve Reich has consolidated his reputation as an internationally
renowned artist of enormous distinction: this new book is a
testament to his integrity and staying power, charting as it does a
musical evolution, still in progress, that has permanently altered
the course of new music in the West in the last third of the
twentieth century."--Music and Letters
"Writings on Music 1965-2000, a new collection of Reich's
writings...substantially enlarges upon, and in most senses
supersedes, its slim predecessor...These works are, at one and the
same time, radical and sensible, revolutionary and respectful of
tradition, and offer extensions of techniques found in diverse
forms of music-making around the world...This book seems to me not
an ending but a beginning: it marks a point where new work, both
creative and
scholarly, can start...Steve Reich has consolidated his reputation
as an internationally renowned artist of enormous distinction: this
new book is a testament to his integrity and staying power,
charting as it
does a musical evolution, still in progress, that has permanently
altered the course of new music in the West in the last third of
the twentieth century."--Music and Letters
"Steve Reich has consolidated his reputation as an internationally renowned artist of enormous distinction: this new book is a testament to his integrity and staying power, charting as it does a musical evolution, still in progress, that has permanently altered the course of new music in the West in the last third of the twentieth century."--Music and Letters "Writings on Music 1965-2000, a new collection of Reich's writings...substantially enlarges upon, and in most senses supersedes, its slim predecessor...These works are, at one and the same time, radical and sensible, revolutionary and respectful of tradition, and offer extensions of techniques found in diverse forms of music-making around the world...This book seems to me not an ending but a beginning: it marks a point where new work, both creative and scholarly, can start...Steve Reich has consolidated his reputation as an internationally renowned artist of enormous distinction: this new book is a testament to his integrity and staying power, charting as it does a musical evolution, still in progress, that has permanently altered the course of new music in the West in the last third of the twentieth century."--Music and Letters
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