Anticipation builds about the world premiere of Steve Reich's new composition, WTC 9/11, which is coming up in a couple of months. It will also be performed at the Barbican in May. Click here for information.
Blogger Ashil Mistry reports that the piece is rumoured to be a sample-based composition, possibly along similar lines to Different Trains. We wait to see if this is the case. Reich lived close to the World Trade Center at the time of the attacks, so it appears this piece has been long in the making.
It comes after he picked up a Pulitzer prize for Double Sextet in 2009.
I didn't expect to find my name here, after google searching "steve reich wtc 9/11". Great!
ReplyDeleteI'm really excited for wtc 9/11. Shall be fantastic, I'm sure.