Steve Reich
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On a gloomy morning in an uncertain world, finding some measure of joyous reassurance in the ecstatic whoops and whorls of Gabriella Smith's 'Carrot Revolution,' played emphatically by @aizuriquartet. https://t.co/tHyqNOJNx3 via @YouTube — Steve Smith (@nightafternight) January 3, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Gabriella Smith is a composer other composers evidently like to recommend, to their listeners and
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John Orfe of Alarm Will Sound, by Hiroyuki Ito Alarm Will Sound at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 16, 2013The New York Times, Nov. 19, 2013 Finally getting around to posting two reviews that ran in the Times last Tuesday. Both concerts were events I specifically requested, and neither disappointed. This Alarm Will Sound
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ACME, by Michael Appleton/The New York Times American Contemporary Ensemble at Le Poisson Rouge, September 11, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2012 This one posed difficulties, and one most of all: It was hard to get over my pre-existing feelings of ambivalence toward Steve Reich's WTC 9/11 — its methods, tone and message —