Steve Reich - South Bank Show - Part 4

Part 4: Drumming / Music for 18 Musicians - Excellent UK documentary charting the career of contempory composer Steve Reich.

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhQfggqNuYM

ARTS: The South Bank Show
On: ITV1
Date: Sunday 10th December 2006
Time: 23:10 to 00:10
Duration: 48:17 (Ads Removed)

Steve Reich.

The Minimalist composer Steve Reich, who became a major player in the 1960s, celebrates his 70th birthday this year.

Here the man and his music are profiled, with special attention paid to the Daniel Variations, his most recent piece about the murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl and Music for 18 Musicians.

Brian Eno, Michael Nyman and Alex Paterson from The Orb testify to his far-reaching influence.

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[domuned]

Alguien sabe si están con subtítulos en castellano?

[timegrinder]

Unlikely.

[robertronics]

one of the few living genius of our time

[korjeklokismo]

I like the old bass clarinet-player!

[phoebe10mimi]

GCSE music? ;)

[CinnAlla]

@woodyeckerslyke I find his music totally engaging. I get a great sense of contact. I don't think it's any more 'music about music' than Bach's 'Art of the Fugue' is.

[CinnAlla]

@BenNCM Steve himself praises them.

[woodyeckerslyke]

18. Great but in the end it's music about music. Next level is to give it some point of contact. OK. Different trains is on as I'm writing this.

[Jrg320]

@BenNCM Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't his intention to interact the western art music tradition with music of other cultures, and if so, how is that raping a culture? Isn't Reich himself praising the Balinese and Ghanian musicians who inspired him by displaying the music that would otherwise be completely without an audience in the west?

[tranmer3]

WHERE THE FFFFFFF44 IS PT1 THEN??

[BenNCM]

I like the way people don't wish to praise the Balinese Ghanian musicians who have been writing this music for thousands of years but call Steve a genius for raping and appropriating a culture's musical capital. So tyipcal of the West. Absolute fucking dicks the lot of them.

[5botball]

You just have to submit to the music then you can truly enjoy it and understand it

[TheMikenco]

I think this might be to music, what graffiti is to art.

Potentially complex and very artistic, but not exactly mainstream.

Interesting.