Steve Reich
Music for 18 Musicians, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars and friends
Drumming, performed by Kuniko Kato
The Complete Steve Reich Quartets, performed by Mivos Quartet
Rebekah Heller plays Steve Reich
Steve Reich has been called “the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). Starting in the 1960s, his pieces It’s Gonna Rain, Drumming, Music for 18 Musicians, Tehillim, Different Trains, and many others helped shift the aesthetic center of musical composition worldwide away from extreme complexity and towards rethinking pulsation and tonal attraction in new ways. He continues to influence younger generations of composers and mainstream musicians and artists all over the world.