Articles

Richard Taruskin Published in the New York Times, August 24, 1997 AS OUR CENTURY NEARS AN end, it seems [...]

Stephen Sondheim Ladies and Gentlemen and members of the Academy, I’m sorry not to be there in person, but [...]

Alex Ross The greatness of Steve Reich is a given. His reputation as a prime originator in contemporary music is [...]

Richard Serra There emerge, at various times and places, manifestations of art which transform the realm of possibilities. New York [...]

John Adams Steve Reich participated in one of the most significant revolutions in twentieth-century music. It seems hard to believe [...]

Michael Tilson Thomas I first heard Steve Reich’s music sometime in the early ‘60s at a party. His early piece [...]

David Robertson At the opening of any Steve Reich work, an idea sounds and begins to resonate outward. The [...]

David Lang One of my high-school jobs was as a stock boy in a classical music record store. A perk [...]

Nico Muhly Writing about Steve Reich’s music feels like writing about a family member or a childhood friend: there are [...]

David Harrington When I met Steve Reich for the first time in the early 1980s, he had not written for [...]