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Critic's Notebook: Steve Reich and Bang on a Can All-Stars

5412 days ago
L.A. Times - Pop & Hiss — Steve Reich celebrates his 75th birthday by performing his landmark "Clapping Music," and offering a hard, distorted version of his recent "2x5." more info

50 Years of Minimalism – review

5466 days ago
Guardian Music — Kings Place, LondonDepending on where you attach the label of the first minimalist piece – this compendious first programme in the Kings Place series placed it on Terry Riley's tape piece Mescaline Mix (1961), which is equally an example of musique... more info

Minimalism at 50: how less became more

5467 days ago
Guardian Music — Minimalism won the battle for stylistic supremacy in the 20th and 21st centuries – but became something its composers never intendedMinimalism is 50 years old this month. Today, the 20th century's most successful musical "ism" has got its repetitiv... more info

DJ Handi's Archive Picks: Greedy Minimalists Keeping Company.

5480 days ago
WFMU's Beware of the Blog — I'm no minimalism expert, but know when it when I hear it. Daniel Blumin played "Kungo Sogoni" by N. Hawa Doumbi. Listen to how the track feeds off a repetitive instrumental motif. Steve Reich, played on Mudd Up! With DJ/Rupture,... more info

Hebrides Ensemble – review

5484 days ago
Guardian Music — 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 the repertoire: Messiaen's Quartet for the End o... more info

Pete Rugolo

5501 days ago
Guardian Music — Controversial jazz composer and arranger best known for his work with Stan KentonIn the days when virtual wars were waged over the direction of jazz, the composer and arranger Pete Rugolo was stationed just behind the front line. Rugolo, who has die... more info

LSO/Järvi – review

5506 days ago
Guardian Music — 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 inevitable. Reich himself partnered Neil Percy in... more info

The prairie stories of Other Lives

5509 days ago
Guardian Music — 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 London, Jesse Tabish shows no interest in the vintage... more info

Beyoncé pleasant but consumerist, says plagiarism row choreographer

5511 days ago
Guardian Music — Anne-Teresa de Keersmaeker says Countdown video was influenced by her work but 'has no edge'An avant-garde choreographer who has accused Beyoncé of plagiarising her dance moves for her latest video Countdown, has issued a statement suggesting that w... more info

Brad Mehldau/Kevin Hays: Modern Music – review

5523 days ago
Guardian Music — (Nonesuch)As he showed at the Wigmore Hall in duet with mandolinist Chris Thile recently, the US piano star Brad Mehldau treats one-to-one musical encounters as invitations to creativity outside his comfort zone; chances to explore worlds between con... more info

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