Steve Reich has influenced composers and musicians all over the world. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music for Double Sextet in 2009 and Grammy Awards for Different Trains (1989) and Music for 18 Musicians (1998). He received the Praemium Imperiale in Tokyo, the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm, the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale and the Gold Medal in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
"There are only a handful of living composers who can legitimately
say that they have changed the course of music history and Steve
Reich is one of them."--The Guardian
"Reich is our best living composer."--The New York Times
"The most original musical thinker of our time."--The New
Yorker
"Intriguing lore and insights."--Publishers Weekly
"An enjoyable series of insights into an artist's creative
process... a delight to read."--Library Journal
"A rewarding journey through the career of one of the pioneers of
minimalist music."--Kirkus Reviews
"Iconoclastic American composer Steve Reich is singular in his own
right, and when he is in conversation with other equally
iconoclastic composers, conductors, sculptors, musicians,
percussionists, and video artists, sparks not only fly, they
sparkle.... Reich and his colleagues conduct lovely give-and-takes
during which they share stories, creative approaches, and
viewpoints.... Reich's Conversations is the best kind of
eavesdropping."--Booklist
"Reich discovery stories pop up everywhere in the book... we learn
a lot about Reich the working composer -- his methods, his
influences, ...his perfectionism, some of his experiences in
getting certain pieces off the ground.... [a] series of
thought-provoking conversations."--Journal of the Music Critics
Association of North America
"In Conversations Steve Reich preserves his shared reflections with
collaborators past and present....conversation is natural, personal
and, because it is a composer talking to fellow artists, elicits
interesting analysis."--BBC Music Magazine
"Packed with musical history and creative philosophy, Conversations
manages the rare feat of being snackable, yet richly satisfying.
For anyone with even a passing interest in the man, his music, or
the artistic scene in which he's played such an important role for
almost six decades, this is mandatory reading."--Musical
America
"A lively new book from Reich that has the composer romping through
his career by way of casual Q. and A.s with various contemporaries,
acolytes, friends and colleagues..... The joy of the book is to
hear artists from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds --
including the guitarist Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead and Richard
Serra, the sculptor -- rhapsodizing about their relationship to
Reich's music and how it influenced their own creative
processes."--New York Times Book Review
"Endlessly illuminating and surprisingly humorous. ... [An]
indispensable book."--Limelight
"Illuminating and engaging... An honest discussion of the creative
process by one of the major composers of our time."--The Arts
Fuse
"[A] fascinating account of Reich's music as seen through his own
eyes and the eyes and ears of those who have worked closely with
him."--Gramophone (UK) "[Conversations] articulately and bracingly
shows Reich engaging in engrossing dialogues with a variety of
interviewers, including conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, Broadway
icon Stephen Sondheim, Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, Belgian
choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. It's a kaleidoscopic
portrait of Reich from 19 different angles, all illuminating and
all very much him.--Los Angeles Times
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