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The Percussions-Claviers de Lyon ensemble performing Sextet, Salle Rameau, Lyon, France, November 6, 2006. Sextet is a composition by American composer Steve Reich. The piece was written and first performed in 1984, and slightly revised in 1985.
Double Sextet is a composition by Steve Reich scored for two sextets of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, vibraphone and piano. [1] It won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music , [ 2 ] the first for the composer. [ 3 ]
Double Sextet/2×5 is an album by American minimalist composer Steve Reich.The album consists of two works composed by Reich, Double Sextet and 2×5. Double Sextet, which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music, is written for two identical sextets of flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and cello.
At age 86, composer Steve Reich is going strong with a collaboration with painter Gerhard Richter and other recent works at the L.A. Phil, among other projects.
A recording of 2×5 by Bang on a Can was released on September 14, 2010 along with Reich's Pulitzer Prize-winning Double Sextet on the album Double Sextet/2×5.. Another recording of 2×5, performed by Mats Bergström, Magnus Persson, Jonas Ostholm, Johan Liljedahl, and Svante Henryson, was released in 2012 by Mats Bergström Musik.
Stephen Michael Reich (/ r aɪ ʃ / RYSHE; [1] [2] better-known as Steve Reich, born October 3, 1936) is an American composer best known as a pioneer of minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Reich's work is marked by its use of repetitive figures , slow harmonic rhythm , and canons .
Steve Reich Ensemble rehearsing Sextet, Le Havre, France.From Left, Garry Kvistad, Bob Becker, Edmund Niemann, Thad Wheeler, Russell Hartenberger, and Nurit Tilles. The ensemble was featured at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention in 1982 in Dallas, featuring Reich, Bob Becker, Russell Hartenberger, and Glen Velez. [1]
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