{"id":7844,"title":"Steve Reich","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/steve-reich","version":"8125b9d7e8c471ca4528282d11895c2c76e27fa432c28e1374a84ba7153e44b6","modified":"2011-06-18T00:00:44+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Steve","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Reich","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Steve Reich.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/steve-reich.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7844.ris"},"links":[],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":1678},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":673}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Steve Reich recently was hailed as \u0022America\u0027s greatest living composer.\u0022 (The Village Voice), \u0022the most original musical thinker of our time\u0022 (The New Yorker), and \u0022among the great composers of the century\u0022 (The New York Times). From his early taped speech pieces It\u0027s Gonna Rain (1965) and Come Out (1966) to the digital video opera Three Tales (2002), Reich\u0027s 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. \u0022There\u0027s 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,\u0022 states The Guardian (London). Reich\u0027s 1988 piece, Different Trains, in which speech recordings generate the musical material for musical instruments, was hailed by The New York Times as \u0022a work of such astonishing originality that breakthrough seems the only possible description...(It) possesses an absolutely harrowing emotional impact.\u0022 In 1990, Reich received a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Different Trains as recorded by the Kronos Quartet on the Nonesuch label. He won a second Grammy award in 1999 for his piece Music for 18 Musicians, also on the Nonesuch label. In 2000, Musical America named Reich Composer of the Year. Several noted choreographers- including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Jerome Robbins for the New York City Ballet, Eliot Feld and Alvin Ailey-have created dances to his music. Reich\u0027s latest recording, collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot entitled Three Tales, was released on CD and DVD by Nonesuch in August 2003. www.stevereich.com","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":1678,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}