Saturday · March 3, 2012 @ 7:30pm

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Steve Reich Retrospective

Clapping Music

Composed in 1972 for two musicians clapping

Different Trains

Composed in 1988 for string quartet and tape

Double Sextet

Composed in 2007 for string ensemble with piano, flute, clarinet, percussion and tape

A concert in the series Left Brain | Reich Brain   Details here

The Composer

Steve Reich was recently called  “our greatest living composer” (The New York Times), “America’s 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). From his early taped speech pieces It's Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Mr. Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. “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,” states The Guardian (London). Steve Reich website

Chatter’s Musicians

(Below composer Steve Reich — left to right, top to bottom)

Douglas Cardwell percussion

David Felberg violin

Kim Fredenburgh viola

Conor Hanick piano

James Holland cello

Megan Holland violin

James T Shields clarinet

Jesse Tatum flute

This concert is made possible in part by
New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs,
and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Thank you.