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Steve Reich

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Noun1.Steve Reich - United States composer (born in 1936)


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Described as being like an "indie band that plays post-jazz", the Mercury award nominated Quartet (pictured right), play melodic, rhythmic music that mixes the inspiration of Philip Glass and Steve Reich with a very contemporary kind of jazz improvisation.
This was evident in Impact, one of her many collaborations with minimalist composer Steve Reich.
His piece for eight metronomes ticks along with the mechanical complexity of a Steve Reich experiment; and he has written hundreds of songs, none of which would challenge Schubert in their dexterity, but are often the vehicle for a musical joke: Be Natural involves the artist strumming a B chord on guitar before slipping down to B flat.
 
 
 
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