and Pansonic, and all forms of minimalism - especially
Steve Reich's compositions.
American composer
Steve Reich was the patron of this year's festival, and the Welsh premiere of his Bach influenced Music for Ensemble and Orchestra provided the exhilarating end to the first half of the concert.
Rachel and Becky's folk-club singing is set against otherwordly musical pictures, arranged by a band with influences ranging from
Steve Reich to Portishead.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS
Steve Reich, composer, 82; Chubby Checker, singer, 77; Lindsey Buckingham, musician, 69; Fred Couples, golfer, 59; Tommy Lee, rock musician, 56; Gwen Stefani, singer, 49; Neve Campbell, actress, 45; Seann William Scott, actor, 42.
BIRTHDAYS:
Steve Reich, composer, 82; Chubby Checker, singer, 77; Lindsey Buckingham, musician, 69; Fred Couples, golfer, 59; Tommy Lee, rock musician, 56; Gwen Stefani, singer, 49; Neve Campbell, actress, 45; Seann William Scott, actor, 42.
Nikolasa Tejero, clarinet, joined the musicians on stage during the second half of the program in the lighter works by Paquito D'Rivera,
Steve Reich, and Astor Piazzolla.
Works of German composers Georg Philipp Telemann and Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed along with works of American composer
Steve Reich by a quartet of wind instruments.
Drawing on a variety of genres for examples, each chapter explains musical topics first, such as rhythm, music theory, sound, tuning and temperament, musical group theory, change ringing, 12-tone music, and modern mathematical music by
Steve Reich, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Iannis Xenakis, then related math concepts like geometric series and sequences, fractions, rational and irrational numbers, and multiplication tables.
In September, 1,200 people visited the station to see a performance of American composer
Steve Reich's Different Trains.
Finishing out the McGregor triple bill is a world premiere to new music by
Steve Reich and a revival of Carbon Life.
Those interviewed include composers (Paul Bowles,
Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Milton Babbitt, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros, Ellen Taffe Zwilich, John Corigliano, and many others), performers (Joshua Bell, Anne Sophie Mutter, Thomas Hampson, and more), conductors (including James Levine and Andre Previn), and fellow scholars.
0871 472 0400 Mammal Hands This trio draw on influences from
Steve Reich to Bonobo and Pharoah Sanders to The Cinematic Orchestra to produce sometimes wistful and melancholic and sometimes raucous, catchy and explosive music.