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Minimal Extreme – review
Glasgow Royal Concert HallThis weekend was the latest and boldest of Glasgow's ongoing Minimal series, featuring iconic works that prod at the barest of bare essentials. There was Stockhausen's...
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Steve Reich: 'It's Beethoven on Mondays and Radiohead on Tuesdays'
'Most music is garbage,' argues the minimalist composer, equally at home at the Bloc Weekender and London's Royal Festival HallElectronic dance music is no longer a young upstart. This year's Bloc...
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Bloc.2012: festival preview
Here's our pick of some of the acts playing the London Pleasure Gardens this weekendThe biggest acts in electronic dance music (and Snoop Dogg) come together this weekend for Bloc 2012 at the London...
View ArticleTanks at the Tate: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker on a new phase for Fase – video
As part of the Tate Tanks 15-week programme of performance art, dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker discusses her seminal work Fase
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Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: Fase – review
Tate Tanks, LondonCross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary ... the terms are often used rather nebulously in the admittedly nebulous field of live art. But the word that springs to mind...
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Aphex Twin – review
Barbican, LondonA remote-controlled baby grand piano, suspended like the fob watch of some giant hypnotist, swings in the gloom. Richard D James, crouched under a bank of digital equipment, performs...
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Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead
Steve Reich went from running a removal business with Philip Glass to revolutionising 20th-century classical music. He talks about rock'n'roll, minimalism – and how Radiohead have inspired himThere is...
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Reich/London Sinfonietta – review
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Festival Hall was predictably packed for this all-Reich concert, the excitement heightened by the fact that not only was a new piece in the offing but that one of the...
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Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review
Royal Festival Hall; St Paul's Cathedral, LondonBliss. Such a simple word, such a difficult state to achieve. When we talk about musical bliss (and no, I don't mean Sir Arthur) we might think, for...
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Wozzeck; A Scream and an Outrage – review
Coliseum, London; Barbican, LondonAt the end of ENO's new staging of Wozzeck, the last thing you feel like doing is clapping. Carrie Cracknell's powerful production asks for silence; time to absorb the...
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Kuniko: Cantus – review
Kuniko (percussion)(Linn)The art of transcription flourishes in these imaginiative reworkings of classics by Arvo Pärt and Steve Reich in the hands of a master marimba player. Kuniko adds percussion...
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The Rest is Noise: Superpower
The US in the 60s and 70s saw bold and brilliant new music coming not just from the so-called minimalists, but also from the likes of Bernard Herrmann's film scores and Stephen Sondheim's musical...
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Philip Glass Ensemble/Steve Reich/Colin Currie Group – review
Royal Festival Hall, LondonThe Rest Is Noise's weekend exploration of postwar American music showed the boldness of Philip Glass's aesthetic visionPhilip Glass's Music in 12 Parts and Steve Reich's...
View ArticleScottish Ballet; Nrityagram Dance Ensemble; Janis Claxton Dance review
Edinburgh Playhouse; King's theatre, Edinburgh; Edinburgh zooThe Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo is resident choreographer at Boston Ballet. Popular and prolific, he has made work for numerous...
View ArticleReich: WTC 9/11; Mallet Quartet; Dance Patterns
Kronos Quartet/So Percussion(Nonesuch)Nonesuch continues to keep its Steve Reich discography up to date with major works from 2009 and 2010, alongside a smaller earlier piece, Dance Patterns for pairs...
View ArticleThe prairie stories of Other Lives
Inspired by the landscape of their native Oklahoma, Other Lives combine their rustic rock with classical minimalism. Martin Aston meets a band without limitsStrolling along Kingsland Road in east...
View ArticleLSO/Järvi review
Barbican Hall, LondonThis concert in celebration of Steve Reich's birthday the American composer turned 75 two weeks ago began with the sound of clapping and ended with an ovation. Both were...
View ArticleHebrides Ensemble review
St Andrew's in the Square, GlasgowThe Hebrides Ensemble specialise in 20th-century (as opposed to broadly "contemporary") chamber music, with a forthcoming season that contains a couple heavyweights of...
View ArticleLondon Sinfonietta/Jonny Greenwood review mesmerising to watch
Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterAn intent audience gave the impression that they could submit to the numinous ebb and flow of Reich's work foreverIt seems a fairly safe bet that Radiohead should be into...
View ArticleProm 37: BBC Singers/Endymion/Hill review draining and exhilarating
Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe performers rose superbly to a programme of hard-hitting protest works by Steve Reich on the theme of nuclear crisisThe programme for the late-night Steve ReichProm...
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