Love Goes to Buildings on Fire by Hermes Will

Author:Hermes, Will [Hermes, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-10-06T04:00:00+00:00

Steve Reich put the finishing touches on Music for 18 Musicians in March, and after a few more group rehearsals in his loft space on Warren Street off Church, he led the world premiere at Town Hall on April 24. The voices and bass clarinets rose and fell like waves against the granular melodies of mallet instruments and pianos, the sound dazzling. The New York Times allotted Robert Palmer three paragraphs to cover the performance, in a roundup of four short classical concert reviews. Palmer described “a lovely, shimmering radiance quite unlike any sound this reviewer has ever heard.”27

Reich and his musicians went straight into the studio to record the piece for Deutsche Grammophon. The recording sounded magical: its bright mallet-drawn melodies sparkling, instantly engaging. It sounded—well, like pop, in a way. But the label, veteran promoters of European classical music, had no idea what to do with it. So the tape sat in a vault.

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