Hints and tips:
...For a brief period, Reich helped out with fellow minimalist Philip Glass’s removal company, Chelsea Light Moving. He recalls paying $65 a month in rent for a loft on Duane Street....
...As the senior generation of American composers such as Steve Reich, Philip Glass and John Adams draw their pensions, a very active wave of newcomers and middle-agers is taking their place....
...“Behind the Mask”, a hit for his Yellow Magic Orchestra, has a piano pulse reminiscent of Steve Reich, but all the familiar bombast. Less-familiar tunes offer more revelations....
...Glass and Steve Reich....
...Riefenstahl used the body to present a paean to Third Reich ideals....
...A course, the author adds, that might well have seen Britain and Europe long under the Reich’s jackboot....
...Not as reductive as La Monte Young’s earliest conceptual pieces, but more than the busy motoric minimalism of Steve Reich and Philip Glass....
...The first was “Spaceship”, a free-flowing but tightly scored minimalist piece with affinities to fellow downtown panjandrums Philip Glass and Steve Reich....
...travels back and forth across Germany into the depths of the Third Reich....
...Duke Reich, president of Reich Paper, has been saddled with soaring import costs. The company makes Savoy paper, another stationer favourite, in Europe....
...on May 25 at 15.30 BST/10:30 EST for a conversation with journalist David de Jong on his groundbreaking investigation of how the Nazis helped German tycoons make billions from the horrors of the Third Reich...
...and Philip Glass is now an elder statesman of American music....
...His sisters married Germans who served the Nazi Reich while Philip was a young hero in the Royal Navy at the battle of Cape Matapan and in the invasion of Sicily....
...Lost for decades and now republished, this is an enthralling, disturbing but also nuanced story that takes the reader into the heart of the Third Reich’s terror state....
...Reich died in 1957 in a US prison after an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration....
...So too are the repetitive syncopations of the American minimalist composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass....
...Philip Stephens is the FT’s chief political commentator....
...Some may add “smug”, and there will always be some UK Brexiters who live the nightmare of a fourth Reich....
...Philip Glass has contributed the reflective “Evening Song No. 2”. Steve Reich’s “For Bob” is a radiant outpouring of rhythm, Louis Andriessen’s “Rimsky or La Monte Young” a study of contrasts....
...Although the senior figures of American minimalism still cast a long shadow — violinist Tim Fain played an extract from Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach and Steve Reich put in a celebrity appearance...
...When Steve Reich and Philip Glass were busy establishing minimalism in New York in the 1960s, they can hardly have suspected that a parallel strand was getting under way in the chill Northern lands of Europe...
...“It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meagre imagination,” wrote Philip Roth in his essay “Writing American Fiction”....
...The late Philip Kerr made several valiant attempts but could never outrun Bernie Gunther, his wry, cynical German detective....
...founder, Music Corporation of America, New York, May 28 1976; Shirley Chisholm, US congresswoman (New York), New York, July 12 1976; Henry Kissinger, US secretary of state, Washington, DC, June 2 1976; A Philip...
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