Re: more Steve Reich

[andre <andre@monmouth.com>]

At 03:58 PM 11/14/96 EST, you wrote:
>Picked up a new Steve Reich CD today, containing 3 new pieces.
> 
>'Nagoya Marimbas': a very beautiful marimba duet, similar to Reich's
>earlier marimba pieces but more complex and with more variations.
>This 4 minute piece alone is worth the CD if you like Reich's minimalism.
> 
>'The Proverb': a choir/ensemble piece influenced by early music.
> 
>'City Life' (a predecessor to 'The Cage'): a complex piece of ensemble
>music with sampled city sounds, e.g. speech samples with the speech melody
integrated into the harmonic flow of the piece.--Michael

Yeah !!-- i love this new cd! it's alittle short, though... i also hear
Reich will have some box set stuff and some unreleased stuff coming next
year tho'....can't wait. Have you heard "The Cave"....was that what you
meant as "the cage"??? if not, i'm unfamiliar with that one.. but he is a
great American composer - loop-addicted people unfamiliar with his work
should especially check out the early stuff (all on one disk now) like 
"Come
out" and "it's raining". Seminal tape loop pieces.

my .02

andre east