The Proms 2011: week four in review

This week Proms audiences put their hands together for rock-star composer Steve Reich, embraced cinematic music and gave the Spaghetti Western Orchestra a gleeful yee-hahNow 75, Steve Reich gets cooler every year, just as his music gets more relevant. The "messiah of minimalism", as Stephen Pritchard put it in the Observer, "received a rock star's welcome." His late-night Prom opened with an old favourite, Clapping Music, into which the baseball-capped composer launched just as the audience app...

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