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| Bbc Proms 2006 | ...Another chance to hear the late-night concert from the BBC Proms 2006 season celebrating the seventieth birthday of STEVE REICH, one of the founding fathers of American Minimalism.... |
| Black Over Red - The Life And Work Of Mark Rothko | ...Tim Marlow explores the life and work of Mark Rothko, one of the 20th century's most influential and complex painters. Since Rothko made his name in NEW YORK in the 1950s, his giant canvases have been a spiritual inspiration to artists like Sean Scully and Brice Marden. Tim Marlow talks to them, Rothko's daughter Kate, ARCHITECT Philip Johnson and composer STEVE REICH, among others, about Rothko's arrival in America from RUSSIA, the murals he refused to show at the Four Seasons restaurant, and the newly restored Rothko Chapel he created in Houston.... |
| Cd Masters Summary | ...STEVE REICH and Musicians... |
| Charles Hazlewood | ...Conductor Charles Hazlewood presents a series in which he draws the connections between classical and popular music, from Prokofiev to The Prodigy, from Bach to the Beach Boys and Prokofiev to The Prodigy.and from STEVE REICH to Radiohead.... |
| Hear And Now | ...Verity Sharp introduces a concert by the BT Scottish Ensemble led by Clio Gould, which was given at Dance Base as part of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Piers Hellawell: Sound Carvings from the Water's Edge. STEVE REICH: Violin Phase. Louis Andriessen: Symphony for Open Strings. Steve Martland: Crossing the Border. Plus, at about 12.25, a studio recording of James Dillon's violin concerto, performed by Thomas Zehetmair with the BBC Scottish SO under Martyn Brabbins.... |
| Interval Talk | ...Verity Sharp explores the roots of STEVE REICH's `Drumming', a work featured at this year's Edinburgh International Festival.... |
| Love Supreme, A | ...Contributors include Coltrane's biographer Ashley Kahn, his wife and fellow musician Alice Coltrane, musicians in the group McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones; modern classical composer STEVE REICH, and Archbishop Franzo King from the Church of John Coltrane in San Francisco.... |
| Marc Riley [6 Music] | ...They take their influence from the likes of STEVE REICH, Talking Heads and King Crimson combining off-kilter time signatures, prolific compositions and intelligent hooks, all wrapped up with a stunning and mature pop-sensibility. Now put that in yer pipe and smoke it!!... |
| Minimalists, The | ...In the first programme Donald Macleod looks at key works by those protagonists - La Monte Young, Terry Riley, STEVE REICH and Philip Glass, against the backdrop of 1960s America.... |
| Music In Our Time | ...Next in series: STEVE REICH... |
| Music Machine | ...2: `Clapping Clapping Music Music'. Verity Sharp deconstructs music by STEVE REICH, Igor Stravinsky and Heaven 17 and watches a simple echo turn into a complex canon.... |
| Music Matters | ...Ivan Hewett with the latest news and views from the musical world. This week, pianist Mitsuko Uchida on the art of touch in performance, and the influence of the first minimalist piece - Terry Riley's `In C' - on composers and musicians from STEVE REICH to Jarvis Cocker.... |
| Performance On 3 | ...It begins with John Adams' orchestral fanfare, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, and Philip Glass' Company - for string orchestra. The concert ends with STEVE REICH's monumental Desert Music, a setting for choir and orchestra of texts by William Carlos Williams.... |
| Pre-hear | ...Featuring STEVE REICH's Octet from 1979.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley talks to author Hanif Kureishi, whose musical choices are almost all contemporary and include the Beatles, STEVE REICH, Arvo Part, John Cage and Zakir Hussein.... |
| Secret Kind Of Blue, The | ...It's not just the best-known Miles Davis album, it's one of the most familiar and influential sounds in jazz. But Kind of Blue is not just one of the greatest jazz albums ever made. It transcends genre. You can hear echoes of Kind of Blue in rock and electronica; the work of minimalist composers like Terry Riley and STEVE REICH; and even the Godfather of Soul James Brown stole a riff from it for his hit single Cold Sweat. Kind of Blue is also a deeply personal album. With its distinctive mood and atmosphere, it has provided a soundtrack to pivotal times in many listeners' lives.... |
| Settling The Score | ...During the 20th century, the langauge of music has expanded beyond Schoenberg's wildest dreams: the elements of rhythm, harmony and melody have been repeatedly refined and re-invented. In the last of three programmes introduced by Samuel West, composers Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, John Tavener, STEVE REICH, Alexander Goehr, Stephen Sondheim and Thomas Ades discuss melody and form.... |
| Sounds American | ...Geoffrey Smith explores what it is about American classical music that makes it sound American. With contributions from musicologists Dave Nicholls and Mischa Donat, conductor Leonard Slatkin and composers STEVE REICH, Steve Montague and John Adams, as well as archive interviews with Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson.... |
| Third Ear | ...Previous in series: STEVE REICH... |
| Viewing The Century | ...Tim Marlow explores the life and work of Mark Rothko, one of the 20th century's most influential and complex painters. Since Rothko made his name in New York in the 1950s, his giant canvases have been a spiritual inspiration to artists like Sean Scully and Brice Marden. Tim Marlow talks to them, Rothko's daughter Kate, architect Philip Johnson and composer STEVE REICH, among others, about Rothko's arrival in America from Russia, the murals he refused to show at the Four Seasons restaurant, and the newly restored Rothko Chapel he created in Houston.... |
| Words And Music | ...A sequence of poetry, prose and music on the theme of immortality, using WB Yeats's poem Sailing to Byzantium as a starting point, and with readings by Andrew Lincoln and Deborah Findlay. Including poetry by Charles Causley, Anthony Thwaite, Adrian Mitchell, Wislawa Szymborska, Emily Dickinson and Rilke, as well as music by John Tavener, Pierre Boulez, Britten and STEVE REICH.... |