If you don’t know that Steve Reich turns 70 this year, please crawl out from underneath that rock! Brad and I set sail for London today to join with the Kronos Quartet and the Bang on a Can All-Stars as part of the Steve Reich Ensemble performing The Cave and Reich’s new composition, Daniel Variations, for the Barbican’s weeklong Steve Reich Birthday celebration.
Please check out this most interesting article written by the man himself on the future of music as he saw it 36 years ago, how it has actually unfolded, and his impressions on the music business of today. This is a fascinating glimpse into how time passes and defies expectation while at the same time fulfilling it in unforeseen ways.
Beyond learning from the perspective and experience of a master who changed the face of what we do and changed how the world hears music, it’s great to hear some thoughts from the composers mouth. Speaking of “Future of Music”, this is truly your time, your music business, yours to make next. “New Music”, in its very broadest understanding, is where this happens, and has happened, ever since the very beginning of what we do.
Please pardon the preachin’ – “Music is my Life Dude”-quality rant. But really, click here to Read the Article, and stay informed. (Back to the future… Steve Reich. Photograph: Martin Godwin)
See you all on October 12th, and i’ll post more than a few times before then. stay tuned, stay in touch. comment on this post even! Don’t know how? Click on the ‘no comments’ link directly below, and you’ll figure it out. And you’ll be the first. Once one person has posted, that disappears, the comments list themselves in chron.
Stay Well, Brad and I will post some from London soon!
Todd
Musica Novacaine 