Steve Reich News

Steve Reich, regarded widely as one of the greatest living composers, has been selected the principal guest composer of Indiana State University's 43rd annual Contemporary Music Festival.

Minimalist legend Steve Reich will be the principal guest composer at the Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State University in Terre Haute.

The tough thing about playing Bach these days? He's pretty hard to get in touch with if you have questions.

THERE is no other guitar concert on tour anywhere in the world quite like Richard Durrant's The Guitar Whisperer - who comes to The Poly, Falmouth, on Tuesday.

For more information visit sopercussion.com . "We've never really thought, 'This isn't percussion so we shouldn't do it,'" says Jason Treuting, founding member of New York percussion quartet So Percussion.

Bowling Green State University will present its 30th annual New Music Festival from Oct.

Most percussion ensembles build their programs around newly commissioned works and a handful of classic scores, like Cage's "Third Construction" and Steve Reich 's "Drumming." So Percussion sometimes plays other composers' music - it introduced itself with a superb recording of the Reich work - but it also writes its own.

Thought ambient music had been drowned in a sea of new age nonsense and chill out? Think again! Artists such as Sun O))) and the Orb are giving the genre new hope Master of ambient music, Erik Satie.

"Prima la music," or "Music first." That's an Italian expression that composer Steve Reich once used when we were talking about his use of texts in some of his works.

Part of the 2009 Next Wave Festival Sep 15, 17a '19, 22a '26 at 7:30pm Sep 16 at 7pm* Sep 20 at 3pm *2009 Next Wave Gala: Patron Celebration Directed and performed by Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan "Juliette Binoche and Akram Khan know how to pick their partners...the chemistry is undeniable" a 'New York Post "There is no question that Khan and ...

The emergence of New Music Detroit has been one of the most exciting recent developments on the local scene.

With the realization that there will always be more music coming at him than he can keep up with, AAJ Managing Editor John Kelman wonders why anyone would think that jazz is dead or dying.

ENSEMBLE Bash and the Delta Saxophone Quartet will headline this year's Grimsby St Hugh's Festival.

Charles Hazlewood really needs to get out more if he thinks putting on an open air concert is an original idea .

Charles Hazlewood really needs to get out more if he thinks putting on an open air concert is an original idea .

Marc Richeter's Black to Comm project has always been more or less singular in its scope, seeking no less than than the outer reaches of deep drone meditation.

Brock Van Wey's Echospace debut is the first album to be released under his own name, but its content will not surprise anyone familiar with his previous ambient work as BVDub.

With American Independence Day falling on the first Saturday of the Cheltenham festival, the Smith Quartet's triptych of American quartets was aptly chosen and proved an potent antidote to the usual notions of star-spangled banner flying.

Playing modern classical music with the likes of Philip Glass and Steve Reich has given saxophonist and composer David Crowell a unique perspective on jazz and improvisational music.

Members of The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew's will present a concert by some of the most important and innovative composers working in the classical music today, including Steve Reich, Arvo P'rt, Jake Heggie and Bruce Broughton, on Monday, June 30, at 8 p.m. at St.