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Community Rating
5.6
TMDB estimate
Born
October 3, 1936 (age 89)
Born in
New York City, New York, USA
Steve Reich was born on October 3, 1936 in New York City, New York, USA as Stephen Michael Reich. Stephen Michael Reich (born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who, along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley, and Philip Glass, pioneered minimal music in the mid to late 1960s. Reich's style of composition influenced many composers and groups. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (for example, his early compositions It's Gonna Rain and Come Out), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, Pendulum Music and Four Organs). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably Different Trains. Writing in The Guardian, music critic Andrew Clements suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history".[6] The American composer and critic Kyle Gann has said that Reich "may ... be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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as Steve Reich
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Tribute to Steve Reich @ Présences Festival 2024
as Original Music Composer
2024

Les Apaches | Simon Nogueira | Johan Tonnoir | Andrea Catozzi @ Paris Sur Mesure
as Music
2024

Puparia
as Music
2021
Riding Light
as Music
2015
Steve Reich in Concert - Salle Pleyel 2014
as Music
2014

Rain
as Music
2014

Light Motif
as Music
2014

C.O.G.
as Music
2013

BAM150
as Self
2012
Drums
as Music
2011

Steve Reich: Phase to Face
as Self
2011

Michael Nyman in Progress
as Self
2010

Space Tourists
as Music
2009

Reich at the Roxy
as Himself
2006

The Dying Gaul
as Music
2005

Reich: Three Tales
as Musician, Original Music Composer, Writer
2002
Fase
as Original Music Composer
2002

Mostly Martha
as Music
2001

In the Ocean
2001