(Brooklyn Hater) I went to Steve Reich's birthday party

If there were a Holy Trinity of living minimalist composers, it would be made up of Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Steve Reich. The first two have flirted with the mainstream (Pete Townshend citing Riley's A Rainbow in Curved Air as an influence on some of The Who's most iconic songs of the early 70s period, Glass with his many film scores and namedrops from Bowie and Eno), while Reich has spent over half a decade being the guy quietly influencing dozens of brilliant artists. From Kr...

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