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Steve Reich
Experimental / Electronica / Classical

"You Are Wherever Your Thoughts Are"

NEW YORK, New York
United States

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Last Login:  10/6/2008
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   Steve Reich: General Info
Member Since5/9/2006
Band Websitestevereich.com
Band MembersFor more info you can also check out www.boosey.com/reich
InfluencesFrom the composer's mouth:

Bela Bartok, Igor Stravinsky, Perotin, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Coltrane, Kenny Clark, Miles Davis, Ghanian drumming, Balinese Gamelan, Hebrew chanting of the scriptures, Maurice Ravel.

Some favorite bands include The Beatles, U2, Junior Walker (Shotgun), the Byrds, Martha and the Vandellas, and Ezra Reich.
Sounds LikeClick HERE to find a performance near you.

Steve Reich Box Set
Record LabelNonesuch
Type of LabelMajor



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   About Steve Reich
This official Steve Reich myspace page is operated by colleagues at Steve Reich's music publisher, Boosey & Hawkes, with input and collaboration from the composer himself. Special thanks to Nonesuch for granting us permission to stream these tracks. Enjoy!

Steve Reich was recently called "Americas greatest living composer." (The Village VOICE), ...the most original musical thinker of our time (The New Yorker) and ...among the great composers of the century (The New York Times)

Steve Reich's music has been influential to composers all over the world. He is a leading pioneer of Minimalism, having in his youth broken away from the "establishment" that was serialism. His music is known for steady pulse, repetition, and a fascination with canons; it combines rigorous structures with propulsive rhythms and seductive instrumental colour. It also embraces harmonies of non-Western and American vernacular music (especially jazz) - his studies have included the Gamelan, African drumming (at the University of Ghana), and traditional forms of chanting the Hebrew scriptures.

"I think all music is ethnic music... Every place has its own musical traditions, and this has a lot to do with how things generally sound," he declares.

Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians have each earned him Grammy awards, and his "documentary video opera" works - The Cave and Three Tales - done in collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot - have expanded the boundaries of the operatic medium, and may well set a trend for opera of the future!

"There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them" - The Guardian (London)
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Melancholiaque





Sep 5 2008 12:03 PM

Please compose something new and fast. Your music is addictive and intensely pleasureable!

Salutations from Stockholm!
Delacroix





Sep 5 2008 4:36 PM

new song, BACKWOODS, out now
"Wir lieben Tanzen"





Sep 5 2008 10:39 PM

*
David Sosnowski





Sep 6 2008 4:54 AM

Brilliant work, my friend; but
simply listening to it tells
us so...

With admiration,


David
------
David Sosnowski
www.DavidSosnowski.com
Arkamz





Sep 6 2008 1:19 PM

thanks for add

very nice music!
Cormac





Sep 7 2008 12:40 PM

Hi greetings from Ireland...thanks for the add....your music is truly inspiring
BrokenTale





Sep 6 2008 5:10 PM

Thanks for the Add !
Great music.
BrokenTale.
KOZO CHIBA (ILLEGAL UNDERWEAR/HARU)





Sep 6 2008 9:23 PM

I <br /> Like<br /> Your<br /> 音楽
Hiroshi Takada





Sep 7 2008 11:20 AM

Thanks for the add!!
Your music is great!
Rise Of Day





Sep 7 2008 3:52 PM

Thanks for the request! Good music!
Greetings from Hungary!

Ákos - Rise of Day
Sounds in Bloom/Norma





Sep 7 2008 10:10 PM

sound​s are other​world​ly,​ yet groun​ded in Truth​.​ peopl​e that hear some of our piece​s say they are remin​ded of you, espec​ially​ our "​Memor​y and Poppi​es"​ and "​Rippe​d Lulla​by.​"​ No doubt​ that your music​ has been an inspi​ratio​n.​ warmt​h and light​ your way!

Norma​ (​poetr​y,​ voice​)​ of Sound​s in Bloom​

p.s. We will be playi​ng with the Vox 4 Quart​et at the Tenri​ Cultu​ral Insti​tute of New York on OCT 4th
EAT LIGHTS BECOME LIGHTS





Sep 8 2008 3:13 PM

Much /noise

Eat lights; Become lights
From Inside





Sep 8 2008 6:09 PM

C'est toujours un plaisir de venir écouter votre musique.

A très bientôt.
Xandrini





Sep 8 2008 7:13 PM

Simply Tanks...
XASAX





Sep 10 2008 11:32 PM

Thanks a lot for accepting the add.
Truely debtful
s
Nestor Zurita





Sep 10 2008 1:57 AM

Great music!
A wonderfull musician
Thank you
Nestor Zurita.
Silva Nigra





Sep 10 2008 9:42 PM

Salut Steve, you look fantastic!
Music is my message and I love your music! Your sounds like fun, that's really cool, I like your style. Send you good feelings and energy. Greetings from Hamburg, Silva
sac





Sep 10 2008 7:30 AM

Thank you for the add.


Your music gives me power.
Frédéric Paul





Sep 11 2008 5:40 AM

Thanks Steve,
Cheers,
Frédéric
Matthieu Lebrun





Sep 11 2008 8:23 PM

Thanks For The Add!

Love Your Sounds.

ML
XASAX





Sep 11 2008 9:06 PM

Thanks a lot for accepting our invitation, and delighted to be connected.
s
Flavio Leopardo





Sep 13 2008 4:13 PM

Thanks ! Good songs !
Giuseppe Ronzano oboista





Sep 13 2008 6:48 AM

Grazie per l'add. maestro!
foni





Sep 13 2008 7:36 PM

WARNING!!! The NEW – “V.I.R.U.S.” - movie contains TRUTH that may not be suitable for those LIVING with FEAR. VIEW at your own RISK.

CLICK the USER ICON TO view – “KARAOKE ARMAGEDDON”

P.S. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your continuing friendship and support. We continue to build the outpost for “Cutting Edge” ARTISTS all over the world. Couldn’t do it without you. YOU AWESOMELY ROKK!!! Have a GREAT WEEK-END!!!!! - foni
Stanislav Petrik





Sep 13 2008 10:48 PM

my name is<maajneeeejm iis? Stanislav Petrik ,.Yourgooood frieeeend?.....best,best ,your friend Stanislav.
Unknown





Sep 13 2008 11:44 PM

thx for the add
Carlos Miranda.





Sep 14 2008 1:01 AM

heyy steve! i wanna tell you that i REALLY love your music i love your job and when im listening ur music i feel that all mi dreams and all my favorite places are just here in my ears and i wanna thank to you for make me feel that.
good look and hope youre good.

kloz.
Pepe Berns Network





Sep 14 2008 8:16 AM

Dear Steve Reich,
thank you very much for adding me to your friends.
I would like to use this oportunity to express my deep respect for your work and my gratefulness for you having been a major influence in my personel career and in the development of my "taste" and for the inspiration, which I gained from listening to your music. Great site - by the way.
Thanks again.
pepe berns, jazzbassist, berlin
Luigi Rubino





Sep 14 2008 1:42 PM

Much Respect
Claudio Gabriele





Sep 14 2008 2:57 PM

Hello Steve, recently we had a piece performed in the same concert, your "New York counterpoint" and my "Coefficient de viscosité angelique" for 12 saxophones ensemble, conducted by Jean-Michel Goury. Best wishes. Claudio
Alexia





Sep 15 2008 10:55 AM

i love your tunes!
Love and many thanks!
Best wishes,
Alexia

www.alexiamusic.com
Alen Ilijic





Sep 15 2008 1:54 PM

Dear Mr.Reich,
Have a nice day!
Greetings from Belgrade!
yours,
Alen Ilijic
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