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	Music: Steve Reich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steve Reich and Philip Glass are the two most important American composers of he second half of the 20th Century.
		Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" (ECM1129, 1978) remains his masterpiece, a 56 minute and 31 second immersion into mesmerizing rhythms that is slow to start but completely engrossing and immensely rich in its ultimate coloration.
		Reich's rhythmic sense is very powerful and while he is not the first to use samplers, he shows what a difference a great artist can make and the piece reverberates long after it is over.
	www.thecityreview.com /reich.htm (951 words)

	Min-Reich.html
		Reich found himself instinctively as unattracted to twelve-tone music though he dutifully continued trying to compose in that vein, as he was attracted to jazz, and especially to John Coltrane, who was simultaneously revolutionizing the perspectives of Young and Riley.
		Reich's "Oh Dem Watermelons" canon accompanied the projection, in the middle of the minstrel show, of a quick-cut film of the same name by Robert Nelson, featuring watermelons flying into Superman's arms, being smashed, being caressed by a naked woman, etc. It was the middle of the 1960s.
		Reich completed his piece with Brother Walter in January 1965, two months after the premiere of In C, and it is from this point, the mid-1960s, that his distinctive contribution begins.
	www.o-art.org /history/50s&_60s/Minimalism/Reich/Min-Reich.html (1765 words)

	Talk-Reich.html
		REICH: It can be summarized as repeating patterns, more or less in what we would call 12/8 time, superimposed to that their downbeats don't come together.
		REICH: I became convinced that I didn't want to get involved with teaching music, because the energies that I needed to compose were the very energies that were depleted by teaching.
		REICH: I did a piece which was influenced, I would say, on the one hand by Bill Evans and on the other hand by Morton Feldman...
	www.o-art.org /history/50s&_60s/Minimalism/Reich/Talk-Reich.html (1458 words)

	Technology serves Steve Reich yet again
		The tape machines and computers that Reich uses to manipulate and enhance his trademark insistent rhythms and repetitious melodies are as vital to his compositional tool box as a resonant drum or a well-tuned violin.
		Reich, who celebrates his 67th birthday this week, will return Friday and Saturday to Chicago with his most ambitious blend of music and technology, "Three Tales,'' a video opera created with his wife, video artist Beryl Korot.
		Reich's musical training was both rigorous and eclectic, ranging from composition classes at the Juilliard School to studies in drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana.
	www.suntimes.com /output/delacoma/sho-sunday-reich28x.html (931 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)

	Steve Reich
		Reich, by contrast, has explored the different ways in which a rhythmic figure can move out of phase with itself, while Glass has used rhythmic figures which increase or decrease in length as the piece progresses.
		Reich's aim in Drumming is to demonstrate that it is possible to maintain the same key for some considerable time if instead there are significant rhythmic developments as well as timbral changes to supply variety.
		Reich feels that it is important to distinguish his music from some currently popular modal forms of music, such as Indian classical and drug-oriented rock and roll.
	media.hyperreal.org /zines/est/articles/reich.html (3204 words)

	Malcolm Ball - Steve Reich
		Steve Reich was born in New York in 1936 and spent much of his early childhood travelling from New York to California, the result of parental separation but an experience that later in life was to manifest in some degree in his composition Different Trains.
		Currently, Steve Reich and Beryl Karot are at work on their next collaboration Three Tales which deals with three key subjects which have had or could have extreme consequences on life in the 20th and 21st centuries.
		Steve Reich will be 61 in October this year and Nonsuch records have just released a 10 CD boxed set of many key works including new recordings of Music for 18 Musicians and Four Organs.
	members.aol.com /malcmuso/reich.htm (1783 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Steve Reich began his career as a percussionist, and his music is marked by an almost overriding interest in rhythm.
		Reich's first works were almost exclusively for percussion, and in them he used both the rhythmic energy and repetitive patterns he found in African music and the concept of gradual change that marks Balinese music.
		Reich utilizes this process of gradual change with live performers, as well as by means of tape manipulations (such as making two tape loops of the same sound, but of slightly different lengths).
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/reich.html (624 words)

	Untitled Document
		Steve Reich was recently called "…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)..
		Reich studied drumming at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra.
		In 1994 Steve Reich was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in 1995, and, in 1999, awarded Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres.
	www.stevereich.com /bio.html (697 words)

	Articles - Steve Reich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This was Reich´s first attempt at writing for larger ´´ensembles´´;, and the extension of performers resulted in a growth of psycho-acoustic effects, which fascinated Reich, and he noted that he would like to "explore this idea further".
		Reich´s work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of political themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage.
		Reich thinks that it will again be with tape, and he also states that he is thinking about Stravinsky´s Agon (1957) as a model for the instrumental writing.
	www.rivarevo.com /articles/Steve_Reich (2539 words)

	Steve Reich - Reinventing Classical Music, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
		Along with the other “minimalists,” Reich proclaimed his devotion to a musical process that was perceptible throughout an entire piece, yet evolved gradually so as to invite detailed listening and concentration.
		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.
	www.classicalnotes.net /columns/reich.html (3793 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Steve Reich
		This was Reich's first attempt at writing for larger ensembles, and the extension of performers resulted in a growth of psycho-acoustic effects, which fascinated Reich, and he noted that he would like to "explore this idea further".
		Reich remarked that this one work contained more harmonic movement in the first five minutes then any other work he had written.
		Steve Reich: You Are (Variations) premiere in LA (October 2004)
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Steve_Reich (731 words)

	aworks :: "new" american classical music: reich, steve
		The Steve Reich article is not as comprehensive although much better than when I made a minor edit on it in 2002.
		In 1966: Steve Reich had returned to New York from San Francisco; the Metropolitan Opera House opened in Lincoln Center; John Lennon said that the Beatles are more popular than Jesus.
		Steve Reich calls Pendulum Music the "ultimate process music." Microphones are suspended from the ceiling and swing past speakers, generating feedback.
	rgable.typepad.com /aworks/reich_steve/index.html (5493 words)

	Maestro's Choice, Steve Reich : Six Pianos
		Steve Reich's compositions are extremely subtle, and the detail in his work is remarkable--simple, yet very precise.
		Reich then focuses on the new voices, and this is where his skilful sensitivity is best displayed.
		Another of Reich's specialities is to be involved in performing his works, whether on the piano or in the percussion section.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm8-8/Steve-Reich_en.htm (946 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Reich
		Steve Reich, as an early pioneer in tape music and American minimalism, has established himself as one of the foremost composers of our time.
		Reich’s later music is characterized by a considerably faster harmonic rate of change, and by a more diverse (though still strictly diatonic) harmonic language.
		His strict, tonal melodic style has brought Reich much critical acclaim, even in a general public that often is distrustful of "new music." As such, Reich has, in many ways, led a charge toward establishing the accessible and almost "anti-academic" diatribe of the newest developments in contemporary music.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/reich.html (814 words)

	Cantaloupe Music: Drumming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reich’s study in Africa enabled him to write music that had to be percussion music.
		Steve Reich was recently called "… 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)..
		Reich studied philosophy at Cornell University and composition at the Juilliard School of Music and Mills College, with teachers including William Bergsma, Vincent Persichetti, Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud.
	www.cantaloupemusic.com /CA21026.html (1080 words)

	VH1.com : Steve Reich : Biography
		Reich was born October 3, 1936 in New York City, and later studied philosophy at Cornell University; while at the Juilliard School of Music, he turned to composition, finally landing at Mills College in Oakland, California under the tutelage of avant-garde composers Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud.
		Reich again applied his phasing manipulations to the recorded voice on 1966's Come Out, but with 1967's Piano Phase and Violin Phase he began employing the process on acoustic instruments.
		Reich's subsequent work veered from quintessential minimalism (1972's self-explanatory Clapping Music) to orchestral compositions (1976's Music for Eighteen Musicians, again everything its title promises), with the latter aesthetic becoming his primary focus in later years.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/reich_steve/bio.jhtml (373 words)

	Three Tales by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot - PopMatters Concert Review
		In the past, Reich was known to use taped speech while allowing the natural hiccupping of the talk to set the tempos and shape the rhythms of his music.
		Reich studied percussion at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra, and as much of his music is based on non-Western, particularly African tribal rhythms it is possible to find one's self succumbed to the numbing wave of melodic intonations.
		Reich's percussive attacks loomed over biologist Richard Dawkin's words, "We, and all other animals are machines created by our genes." Reich manipulated the speech even more when he looped "machines" into a repetitive ticker tape frenzy.
	www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/r/reich-steve-021019.shtml (1546 words)

	Classical Net Review - Reich - Tehillim, etc.
		I had no idea who Steve Reich was or had even heard the name before, and I was interested in new music.
		Furthermore, Reich has in fact avoided publishing and recording some of his most effective work, since he feels that the resultant competition may detract from the box-office gate of his tours.
		Reich himself explains the change as a matter of dealing with the rhythms of text for the first time.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/e/ecm01215a.html (1226 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| The beaten track
		With a 70th birthday coming up next year, and all the musical celebrations that entails for a composer of his international stature, Steve Reich is a busy man. Three pieces have been specially commissioned for his anniversary, and one of them has already been issued on disc.
		Reich was in Britain last month to promote that CD, which pairs the latest in his series of pieces called Counterpoint, this time one for cello and multi-channel tape completed in 2003, with the You Are Variations, performed for the first time last year.
		In one way the Variations affirmed a change of focus for Reich; it was his most substantial work since he finished Three Tales, the second of the "video operas" he composed in collaboration with his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /filmandmusic/story/0,16373,1601628,00.html (873 words)

	Disquiet: interviews: Steve Reich (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steve Reich is on the phone from his studio in downtown Manhattan.
		Reich: First of all, a lot of things happened before I was even aware of it, so consequently, no one sent me a copy of "Little Fluffy Clouds" and said, "Is this alright with you." Because at the time they were relatively unknown, we didn't take any legal steps either, when we had that option.
		Reich: Sometimes yes, but basically there are languages in the world, that we don't speak, you and I, but in Africa for instance, where — they're called tonal languages — if you don't have the melody right, then you don't have the meaning right.
	www.disquiet.com /stevereich-script.html (4000 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| The Reich stuff
		His latest project, 3 Tales, is an opera made with his wife, the video artist Beryl Korot, that dramatises three key moments in the history of 20th-century technology: the Hindenburg crash of 1937, the nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in 1943 and the cloning of Dolly the sheep (RIP) in 1997.
		The way in which Reich looks forward and engages with the reality of the modern age could mask the fact that he comes from a classical background.
		Reich runs through subjects with such speed and fluidity that it is hard to keep up with him.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /homeentertainment/story/0,,1114656,00.html (1024 words)

	New Milford Spectrum Steve Reich: always a ‘hero’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Steve Reich took the mound for Shepaug Valley High School in the 1980s, he stood in perfect control – of his pitches, his mind, his emotions.
		Major Reich was one of the 17 troops aboard the Army Special Operations MH-47 helicopter that a rocket-powered grenade brought down at dusk Tuesday in the wild mountains of eastern Afghanistan; he may have been its pilot.
		Steve Reich, 34, was raised in the Marble Dale section of Washington.
	www.spectrum.newmilford.com /story.php?id=64121 (1116 words)

	Disquiet: interviews: Steve Reich, remixed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Steve Reich, whose aficionados will recognize the Coldcut salvo as a cybernetic tweak on his familiar percussive motifs.
		Mention Reich to Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto and he immediately begins singing the vocal motif from "Come Out." Mention Reich to DJ David Holmes and his response is "Avant fuckin' garde music," meant entirely as a compliment.
		Reich is hungry for more information on this new world of electronic pop music into which Remixed has opened a window, but he is also reflective of the electronic scene's place in the music continuum.
	www.disquiet.com /stevereich.html (1442 words)

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