In the Studio: Steve Reich

在工作室:史蒂夫·赖希

The Documentary Podcast

社会与文化

2025-04-14

26 分钟
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For 60 years, New York composer Steve Reich has been one of classical music’s most celebrated revolutionaries. Pioneering minimalism in the 1960s, a musical style based on repetition and shifting rhythms, his strange experiments with cassette tape led to orchestral masterpieces – now performed around the world. His career has not only helped define the latest era of classical music, but had an enormous influence on pop, rock and electronica. He has helped shape 20th Century music in a way few can claim to match. To mark 60 years since his first major piece,1965’s It’s Gonna Rain, he takes Alastair Shuttleworth through the process and stories behind some of his greatest works, including Clapping Music, Different Trains and City Life. He also reflects on his legacy, his plans for the future and what, at the age of 88, still inspires him to compose
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  • The piece you're hearing made from chopped up recordings on cassette tape is 1965's It's Gonna Rain by Steve Reich,

  • the first strange step in a career that would revolutionise classical music.

  • Do you remember the first person you showed It's Gonna Rain?

  • Yeah, it was a girlfriend at the time.

  • And she came over and she said, she looked at me like a white eyed and said, Wow!

  • And I considered that was a rave review and that was good, you know, all set.

  • You're listening to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Alice Dushuttleworth and this episode is dedicated to a composer who has helped shape the last century of music,

  • Steve Reich.

  • Born in New York in 1936, in the 60s, Reich pioneered minimalism,