Steve Reich. A new musical language - ACE169.6

Sextet (1984). Score. Performance. Reich talking about trying to get "a different kind of sound" out of percussion. Musicians respond to a question on interpreting this kind of music. Applause. Reich talking about public response to his music. How Reich came to compose Vermont Counterpoint (1982). Ransom Wilson playing the piece. Reich VO on how it’s done. Wilson talking about the difficulties of the recording session, and how all the parts of one section had to be recorded again when Reich decided to change one of the instruments.