From Allendale, Michigan comes a wonderful new recording of Steve Reich's landmark Music for 18 Musicians performed by the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble. Reich's cool, meditative work from 1976, in addition to having been widely adored by composers, is one of those pieces the rest of us just can't stop listening to. There's a fun video out there in youtubeland, though the sound is inferior to the CD. Reich's piece to me has always sounded like a kind of pixilated Enigma Variations in that the theme is there, but is scrambled to the point of being inscrutable.
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