Commentator Rob Kapilow takes the motor-like rhythms of minimalism out for a test drive. He explains that the music is "about making us alive to... Steve Reich: Minimalism In The Mainstream Composer ...

NPR Steve Reich has always been able to hear the pulse The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved ...

One thing I learned spending an entire week listening to a big box of Steve Reich’s music is that there’s no box big enough for Steve Reich’s music. I had originally intended to listen to “Collected ...

When I first heard Steve Reich, I was blown away that music with no traditional forms or improvisation, with only subtle variations over time, could be so exciting... It has a spiritual effect, ...

Clapping, from 1972, was also, of course, a clever piece of conceptual art – isn’t clapping what audiences do? But it would be hard to overestimate the impact the piece had among fellow composers like ...