"Daniel Variations" is Steve Reich's 2006 memorial tribute to murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, and it announces the nature of its subject matter right from the first moments. The piece opens with ...

Daniel Variations (2006): I Saw a Dream; My name is Daniel Pearl (I'm a Jewish American from Encino California), Let the dream fall back on the dreaded, I sure hope Gabriel like my music, when the day ...

The 2021 Season includes three world premiere works on film by Danielle Rowe and Myles Thatcher, as well as Mrs. Robinson by Cathy Marston, which was originally programmed for the 2020 Season. Myles ...

In a conversation with composer Steve Reich, you're as likely to find references to quantum mechanics and computers as you are to Bach. For his latest composition, You Are (Variations), the ...

What better way than with music to remember Daniel Pearl, the boy who could read notes before he read words, the classically trained violinist who loved bluegrass and the blues, the foreign ...

A tsunami of celebrations in New York and London greeted Steve Reich’s 70th birthday in October. Through it all, Los Angeles laid back. But Sunday night the Reich express finally blew into the Walt ...

When the musical style known as Minimalism began to take hold in the late 1960s it would have seemed almost inconceivable that, 40 years on, whole weekends would be devoted to public celebrations of ...

Forgive the pun, but the American composer Steve Reich has had his finger on the pulse of Western music for over six decades. Like the rudimentary shapes and colors of Sol LeWitt's deceptively ...

Almost as in deference to the minimalist approach of composer Steve Reich, these two discs distill their titles down to simply Reich / Richter on one and Steve Reich on the other. It's a hint on ...