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	Tehillim
		Tehillim is a setting of Psalms 19:2-5 (19:1-4 in Christian translations), 34:13-15 (34:12-14 in Christian translations), 18:26-27 (18:25-26 in Christian translations) and 150:4-6.
		One of the reasons I chose to set Psalms as opposed to parts of the Torah or Prophets is that the oral tradition among Jews in the West for singing Psalms has been lost.
		Tehillim may thus be heard as traditional and new at the same time." Steve Reich
	www.lichtensteiger.de /tehillim.html (962 words)

	Reich - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Reich, Steve, born in 1936, American composer and performer who has been a dominant force in the musical style known as minimalism.
		Reich, is the German word for realm or empire, cognate with Scandinavian rike/rige, Dutch rijk and English ric as found in bishopric.
		Steve Reich (born Stephen Michael Reich, October 3, 1936) is an American composer.
	encarta.msn.com /Reich.html (193 words)

	Tehillim (Reich) at AllExperts
		Tehillim is a piece of music by American composer Steve Reich, written in 1981.
		Typically, Reich's music is characterised by a steady pulse and the repetition of a comparatively small amount of melodic material emanating from a clear tonal centre (a style of writing which has been labelled 'minimalist').
		Both aspects are certainly to be identified in Tehillim (the composition in no way marks a complete aesthetic break for Reich), for example in the quick, unchanging tempo of the first two parts, which are played one after another without a break, and the close four-part canons of the first and fourth parts.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/te/tehillim_(reich).htm (810 words)

	James Wierzbicki / Steve Reich
		Reich was born in New York City in 1936, and his musical training followed the norm for many young composers of that generation.
		Reich produced a lot of music in those days, most of it of the sparse, angular and intellectually fashionable sort now referred to as ''post-Webernian serialism.'' In 1963 he simultaneously formed his own percussion group and shook off the restrictions of ''formulaic'' academic music.
		To judge from the score, Reich's new ''Three Movements for Orchestra'' seems closer in design and overall mood to his music from the late 1970s than it is to either ''Tehillim'' or ''The Desert Music.'' But clearly this is a piece in which the purposeful treatment of harmony plays a dominant role.
	pages.sbcglobal.net /jameswierzbicki/reich.htm (958 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tehillim (Reich)
		In its standard chamber version Tehillim is scored for four women's voices (one high soprano, two lyric sopranos and one alto), piccolo, flute, oboe, english horn, 2 clarinets, six percussion (playing small tuned tambourines without jingles, clapping, maracas, marimba, vibraphone and crotales), two electric organs, two violins, viola, cello and bass.
		Typically, Reich's music is characterised by a steady pulse and the repetition of a comparatively small amount of melodic material emanating from a clear tonal centre (a style of writing which is called 'minimalist').
		Both aspects are certainly to be identified in Tehillim (the composition in no way marks a complete aesthetic break for Reich), for example in the quick, unchanging tempo of the first two parts, which are played one after another without a break, and the close four-part canons of the first and fourth parts.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tehillim_(Reich) (749 words)

	THE EVOLUTION OF STEVE REICH - New York Times
		Reich was still concerned with smaller-scaled pieces for his ensemble, and with experiments based on his studies of African and Balinese music.
		Reich's pieces of the late 70's include Music for 18 Musicians; Music for Large Ensemble; Octet; Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards and ''Tehillim.'' In all of these scores, he was working both to provide music for his ensemble - which has long been a shifting group of freelancers rather than the tight ensemble Mr.
		In ''Tehillim,'' such rethinkings - the use of longer melodic patterns in Octet, for instance, which was partly inspired by Jewish cantillation - reach their apogee, and ''Tehillim'' might seem to be the apogee of the influence of Judaism on this work, as well.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E7D6153BF937A25750C0A964948260&sec=&pagewanted=2 (671 words)

	ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network
		To judge from the themes he addresses, notably the Frankenstein potential of science, Steve Reich seems to be a devout secular humanist, but he could equally well be described as a holy minimalist without abusing the meaning of the words.
		When you tune into one of Reich's works, it is a bit like realising that the stick figures in a panel on a Greek Geometric pot are carrying out a funeral procession and expressing recognisable profound grief; the schematic surroundings become a human attempt to organize a chaotic world rather than empty space-filling.
		Tehillim, from 1981, is a four-movement setting of texts from the Psalms that emphasizes the root of the title, the Hebrew word for psalms, in the word for praise, also found in "halleluia".
	www.concertonet.com /scripts/review.php?ID_review=2768 (591 words)

	BMOP :: Minimalism - BMOP presents works by Adams, Glass, Reich and Ruehr :: Program Notes
		Tehillim is therefore an even more important development in the minimalist movement, as Reich presents the chanting of the Psalms â“ one of the simplest and purest forms of worship â“ with twitchy and radiant fervency.
		Reich prolongs this texture for several minutes, until it dwindles down to solo voice and clarinet over drums and strings, repeating the original melody.
		Reich matches the text by using the ensemble in its entirety, and adding the brilliant shimmer of the crotales (the âwell-tuned cymbalsâ of the text).
	www.bmop.org /season/program_notes.aspx?cid=43&from=concert (3204 words)

	The Tech - Premiere Orchestra play first non-premiere work
		Steve Reich is popularly known as the most coherent and accessible of the minimalists.
		Reich had specific goals for each instrument group: as the percussionists maintain a constant eighth note pulse, the winds play melodic lines, and the strings complete the harmony with sustained chords.
		As Reich composed it, Tehillim has an intricate and enjoyable rhythm, but in Kresge, the six percussionists could barely be heard over the amplified string instruments.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V114/N27/orchestra.27a.html (562 words)

	Steve Reich: Pulse of life - Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Reich embraced Stravinsky, Bartok and Coltrane, but turned his back on the serialists completely, and placed rhythm at the very heart of his work (which is why, if it has to be categorised, he prefers to call his work "pulse" music).
		Reich's Music For 18 Musicians won him a wider audience in 1976, and in 1982 Zubin Mehta and the New York Philharmonic performed the orchestral version of Tehillim, his setting of parts of the Hebrew psalms.
		Reich's new commission for his birthday concert at the Barbican, Daniel Variations, takes its texts from the words of Daniel Pearl, the Jewish American journalist murdered in Pakistan, and the Old Testament Book of Daniel, from which he has chosen the part where Nebuchadnezzar has a terrifying dream.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/features/article1735173.ece (2057 words)

	Classical Net Review - Reich - Tehillim, etc.
		Reich seemed to me a mind both incredibly methodical as well as exploratory.
		Indeed, this tends to be Reich's notion of counterpoint, and it definitely comes from a drummer.
		The poetry of Reich's work is to me abundantly available, but it's not a swoony, dreamy-dreams or a bardic kind of thing.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/ecm01215a.html (1175 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Reich: Tehillim at Epinions.com
		Steve Reich's 30 minute Tehillim is a buoyant celebration of his Judaism, but for anyone of any faith it is an uplifting spiritual experience as all good religious-based music should be.
		Reich claimed that the third section was the first slow movement he had ever written.
		Reich is exceptionally difficult to perform- hence it being performed almost exclusively by his own Allstar Band- and it is a credit to his musicians that they can pull it off.
	www.epinions.com /content_127638736516 (862 words)

	THE EVOLUTION OF STEVE REICH - New York Times
		Reich is undertaking a large-scale expansion of his style - or perhaps his success is a result of those changes.
		Reich abjured amplification and opted for larger and larger ensembles.
		Reich's earlier music, there are significant differences, too, above all variation of tempo, a freer harmonic palette and specific examples of word-painting, all in response to the texts - the first text-setting Mr.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9407E7D6153BF937A25750C0A964948260&sec=&pagewanted=all (1641 words)

	New Age & Avant Garde STEVE REICH World Music at Global Rhythm - The Destination for World Music
		In the early â80s, composer Steve Reich began to pursue the difficult task of setting texts to his style of pulsing rhythms and slowly evolving harmonies, producing these beautiful and challenging works.
		Tehillim, a setting of Hebrew psalms for four womenâs voices and a percussion-heavy chamber ensemble, receives a superb reading from Ossia, the new-music group of the Eastman School of Music.
		This is a version for chamber orchestra and a smaller vocal group that Reich arranged from original work for large chorus and orchestra.
	www.globalrhythm.net /WorldMusicCDReviews/NewAgeAvantGarde/STEVEREICH.cfm (239 words)

	Steve Reich - Reinventing Classical Music, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
		Reich had always been attracted to percussion and had played drums in bands throughout high school and college (where he studied philosophy, not music).
		In his piece, Reich didn't try to imitate the actual sound of the gamelan (and indeed scorned rock musicians using sitars for superficial exotic texture); rather, he sought to emulate its overall feel and attitude.
		Tracing his ancestry to the priestly tribe of Levites, Reich felt it was especially fitting for him to fulfill their historical role of singing the holy texts.
	www.classicalnotes.net /columns/reich.html (3793 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Reich: Tehillim / The Desert Music - Steve Reich, Alarm Will Sound, Alan Pierson - Product ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tehillim itself is written in four movements principally for voice (high soprano, lyric sopranos, and an alto) although other instruments such as the string bass and various percussion instruments are featured.
		The percussion in Tehillim is snap-crackle-pop sharp, allowing the ear to carefully distinguish the sounds of the various percussion instruments, in comparison to the muddled sound of the Schoenberg Ensemble version.
		The Tehillim on Nonesuch is coupled with Three Movements for Orchestra, an uninteresting work whose last movement is a poor re-hash of the last movement of Sextet (a far superior work to the Three Movements).
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	Steve Reich
		Tehillim is melody in a recognizable way in Western traditional terms, and that was the break.
		Tehillim took a while to write because it was long, and writing a slow movement was also new for me. In addition, I hadnât set a text to music since I was a student, and had never done it successfully as a student.
		Tehillim is the first piece where I said, âOkay, singers are going to sing words and the instruments are going to accompany them.â Singers love singing the piece and thatâs extremely gratifying.
	www.nigun.info /reich.html (2258 words)

	Tehillim - Steve Reich - Song Listings
		As such, they have a rhythm of their own which plays off of the steady pulse of the finger cymbals in interesting ways, placing accents in unexpected places.
		Meanwhile, Reich -- for the first time in his mature career as a composer -- experiments with modulation between keys and other elements of tonality that he had previously ignored.
		Indeed, when the final movement, after three movements' worth of Reich's characteristic tonal ambiguity, finally "affirms the key of D major as the basic tonal center," as Reich's lucid liner notes helpfully explain, the effect, combined with the increasing power and passion of the female voices, is astonishing.
	www.mp3.com /albums/112655/summary.html (303 words)

	STEVE REICH: Minimalist Memories on his 70th Birthday
		If you only have one Steve Reich album, this is the one two have, a single 67 minute composition that takes you on a mesmerizing journey into fractal variations.
		Reich sets four Hebraic psalms in his most melodically arresting work that is both modern and mediaeval.
		Drumming is the iconic turning point piece in Reich's music, a 90 minute or so percussive evolution that laid the groundwork for all his subsequent music.
	www.echoes.org /reich70th.html (382 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tehillim-Three Movements: Music: Steve Reich,Reinbert de Leeuw,Michael Tilson Thomas,Hague Percussion ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		"Tehillim" is still the reason I hold on to this album, but in my opinion one has to be in the right mood to listen to it.
		This is an excellent pairing of two of Reich's contrasting styles--Three Movements, an example of the pulsating process-music of his earlier works, reminiscent of Desert Music and the Octet; and Tehillim, a completely different type of piece, one rich in complex melodic material and constantly changing rhythms.
		The piece is dull, Reich is falling to Glass's habit of recycling his cliches and the result can be used as an elevator muzak.
	www.amazon.ca /Tehillim-Three-Movements-Steve-Reich/dp/B000005J1Q (987 words)

	Say little, and do much - Haaretz - Israel News
		Reich's Judaism is an important key to understanding his creative process, which has evolved over the years, from the repetitive style that changed the face of music in the last third of the 20th century, to his current work on Jewish themes.
		Reich's inspiration for this work is a saying by Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, which is also attributed to the rabbi's great-grandfather, the Baal Shem Tov: "Bamakom she'hoshev hasekhel, sham kol ha'adam." Reich translates it as: "You are wherever your thoughts are."
		Reich says he left out the last word, tamid (always), because boasting that God was always before his eyes would be untrue.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/spages/834945.html (1605 words)

	Steve Reich-discography
		Included in the 5 CD box are a large number of Steve Reich's best know works including, Music for 18 Musicians, Drumming, You Are (Variations), Different Trains,Tehillim, The Desert Music, Cello Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Proverb, Come Out, Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ, Electric Counterpoint, New York Counterpoint and Triple Quartet.
		The premiere recording of the London Steve Reich Ensemble performing Sextet, Piano Phase and Eight Lines conducted by Kevin Griffiths on the German CPO label.
		Steve Reich and Musicians, recorded by Deutsche Grammophon in 1974.
	www.stevereich.com /discography.html (495 words)

	classical music - andante - "reich redux"
		The Desert Music is a setting of poems by William Carlos Williams originally scored for a small chorus and a full orchestra, all amplified; a chamber version exists as well, but conductor Alan Pierson (with the composer's approval) made a "medium-sized" arrangement to fit his ensembles.
		The texts Reich selected are particularly fine examples of Williams' poetry - so it may trouble some listeners that the composer's setting often seems to go against the rhythm and sense of the words, notwithstanding all the attractive open harmonies and vibrant pulse of the music.
		Yet Reich knew what he was about: the text setting suddenly becomes quite clear at the words, "It is a principle of music to repeat the theme.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=10586&highlight=1&highlightterms=&lstKeywords= (675 words)

	s t e v e r e i c h
		She would become Reich's second wife (his first marriage, during his college years, ended in divorce), and together they would delve deeply into their shared spiritual background, journeying to Israel in n1977, studying Hebrew and other facets of the Jewish tradition.
		After Tehillim, Reich's renewed interest in the combination of words and music resulted in The Desert Music (1984), a symphony (of sorts) with a chorus who sings the poetry of William Carlos Williams.
		Reich's next major work would see a return to taped music, recorded speech, and another Jewish theme.
	home.earthlink.net /~jkannenberg/reich/bio6.html (334 words)

	Jazz for the Asking Music Store: All Jazz: Reich: Tehillim / The Desert Music
		In that this is my first exposure to the works of Steve Reich, I can not say anything about how these new performances compare to the originals, although I have to say that I was very impressed by the playing.
		I agree there's something very special about that old Tehillim on ECM, but this new one is so different in character and so winsome, you can't help but be glad it's here.
		This recording of Tehillim I think is the best one yet, & I suppose since this is the most recently revised (early 2003 BCE)version of The Desert Music, it is the most basic important one to have in your cd collection.
	www.jazzfortheasking.com /store/jazz-63894-B00006H6B5-Reich_Tehillim_The_Desert_Music.html (1453 words)

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		Reich, who recently was called “America's greatest living composer” by The Village Voice, was born in 1936 in New York City.
		On Saturday, October 21 in Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall presents a program of Reich's masterworks performed by the artists for whom they were written: Electric Counterpoint, played by guitarist Pat Metheny; Different Trains, with the Kronos Quartet; and Music for 18 Musicians, performed by Steve Reich and Musicians.
		The all-Reich program in Zankel begins with a conversation between the composer and Carnegie Hall's Artistic Advisor, Ara Guzelimian, and includes the U.S. premiere of Daniel Variations, a tribute to the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, co-commissioned by The Carnegie Hall Corporation.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/news_print.php?id=10649 (726 words)

	classical music - andante - steve reich: tehillim and the desert music
		This pack of overgrown students and their conductor, Alan Pierson, have made a delightful recording of two of Steve Reich's most famous works: the performances have more feeling, clarity and atmosphere than even the formidable recordings by Steve Reich and Musicians.
		Most people who have heard Reich's music would characterize it in general as energetic, rhythmically challenging and often exciting — but "emotional" is not a word that would normally come to mind.
		The interlocking string figures at beginning have an almost taunting quality, and shortly afterwards the voices enter with open chords reminiscent of a train whistle; there's a flash of sardonic humor at the beginning of the third movement as one of the xylophones imitates a clock.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=19171 (606 words)

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