Steve Reich. A new musical language - ACE169.3

Come Out (1966). Reich tells story of composing this as a benefit for the Harlem Six, from tapes he was given, and following the advice of William Carlos Williams to work with speech rhythms as they exist rather than to try to set them to a fixed metre. Demonstrates how this works. Film of rail yards, car park, etc. Reich talking about the music of Hans Eisler, Kurt Weill, and Richard Wagner and not being able to be influenced by politics. Pendulum Music (1968). Reich explaining over how this piece came about. He talks about transferring his two interests of tape and electronic music to live musicians, with Piano Phase (1967) being the first of these experiments. Four Organs. Reich talking about studying with the Ewe people of Ghana. Drumming (1970-1971). Reich talks briefly about the changes that these studies made to his work and describes the different parts of Drumming.