Forgive the pun, but the American composer Steve Reich has had his finger on the pulse of Western music for over six decades. Like the rudimentary shapes and colors of Sol LeWitt's deceptively ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In “Jacob’s Ladder,” which premiered at the New York Philharmonic on Thursday, Reich’s signature chugging rhythms returned. By Zachary ...

When Steve Reich released Music for 18 Musicians (ECM, 1978), it was a consolidation and major leap forward in the pulse-based music that the minimalist progenitor had been exploring on earlier ...

Steve Reich’s music always, and often spectacularly so, knows where it’s going. It may surprise you. Startlingly sudden shifts of meter and/or harmony are a trademark. You might not expect to end up ...

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... Steve Reich has always been able to hear the pulse Forgive ...