Signal: Music of Steve Reich

March 09 - 7:30pm to 7:30pm

Process music, pulse music, minimalism. None of these well-known descriptors fully captures the essence of perhaps the major musical innovation of the second half of the twentieth century, but it is instantly recognizable to the ear. The shimmering, revolving, driving sounds of the minimalist composers stripped away ornament and artifice in music in the service of hypnotic power, and composer Steve Reich is its best-known proponent. The exciting young ensemble Signal, conducted by Brad Lubman, will feature Sextet (1985) and Double Sextet (2007), which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music and receives its CMA premiere in the rare, entirely-live version.
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Process music, pulse music, minimalism. None of these well-known descriptors fully captures the essence of perhaps the major musical innovation of the second half of the twentieth century, but it is instantly recognizable to the ear. The shimmering, revolving, driving sounds of the minimalist composers stripped away ornament and artifice in music in the service of hypnotic power, and composer Steve Reich is its best-known proponent. The exciting young ensemble Signal, conducted by Brad Lubman, will feature Sextet (1985) and Double Sextet (2007), which won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music and receives its CMA premiere in the rare, entirely-live version.
$32, $28; CMA members $31, $27
Friday, March 9, 2012, 7:30 p.m.Gartner Auditorium,The Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44106. For more information, please call 216-421-7340 or 888-CMA-0033, or visit our web site www.ClevelandArt.org

Photo by Alice Arnold