Wednesday, September 16th
always fresh
Steve Reich (1936-), Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76); Amadinda Percussion Group & Musicians, live, Budapest, 2003
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other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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2020
Thursday, May 28th
Soundtrack to a dream I’d love to have.
Steve Reich (1936-), Nagoya Marimbas (1994); ensemble 0, live, France (Pau), 2010
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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. . . life and the memory of it so compressed
they’ve turned into each other. Which is which?—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “Poem”
2020
Monday, February 24th
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This I could listen to all day.
Steve Reich (1936-), Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices, and Organ (1973); Alarm Will Sound, live, New York, 2004
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yesterday morning, outside Chicago (Salt Creek Trail)
2020
Monday, February 17th
sounds of New York
Why not begin the week with sounds that are enlivening?
Steve Reich (1936-), Double Sextet (2007), Music for 18 Musicians (1974-76); Ensemble Signal (Brad Lubman, cond.), live, New York, 2016
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2017
Saturday, March 18th
Steve Reich (1936-), Mallet Quartet (2009), So Percussion
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At worst, one is in motion; and at best,
Reaching no absolute, in which to rest,
One is always nearer by not keeping still.—Thom Gunn (1929-2004), “On the Move” (fragment)
2016
Wednesday, February 17th
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Steve Reich (1936-), The Desert Music (1983)
Schönberg Ensemble, Slagwerkgroep Den Haag, BBC Singers, Reinbert de Leeuw (cond.), live, Amsterdam, 1987
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2016
Tuesday, February 16th
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Steve Reich (1936-), Six Marimbas (1986), arranged for gamelan (Iwan Gunawan)
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musical thoughts
Music is a means of rapid transportation.
—John Cage (1912-1992)
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Years ago, at the University of Chicago Law School, I took classes from the late Antonin Scalia. He was one of the first professors I encountered, as I had him for Contracts, a first-year staple. Two-word review: Very funny.
2015
Thursday, December 24th
Feel like floating?
Steve Reich (1936-), Six Marimbas (1986); Undergraduate Recital (Colin Van de Reep, Noam Bierstone, Sandro Valiante, Mark Morton, Ben Reimer, Ben Duinker), McGill University, Montreal, 2011
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Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
—Simone Weil (1909-1943; quoted at Orange Crate Art)
2015
Saturday, December 20th
alone
Georg Friedrich Haas (1953-), Hommage a Steve Reich (1982)
Hans Ludemann (piano), live, Germany (Cologne), 2012
Each time I listen to this, it sounds different.
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