Steve Reich - Phase to Face | The Father of Minimal Music with John Cage & Philip Glass

Steves Reich shares the podium of the contemporary music with Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and John Adams. With roots in the styles of John Cage, Lou Harrison, and others, his music is characterized by a great rhythmic drive, simplified harmonies and hypnotic repetition blossomed. Click here to watch the documentary “A Year with John Cage“, about the experimental musician: Subscribe to EuroArts: A student of Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio, musician Steve Reich (born 1936) quickly developed a style all his own inspired by Baroque music, Bartók, Webern and Stravinsky, as well as jazz, traditional music (especially African), and Hebrew cantillation. As a trailblazing exponent of minimalist music, Reich rejected the characteristic complexity of mid-20thcentury classical harmony and tonality in order to make large-scale works from minimal materials a single chord, a brief musical motif, a spoken exclamation – thereby reconcil