Author Archives: Alan Rich

Record reviews

Posted on March 12, 1989 by Alan Rich

Steve Reich has done it again. Natter on  all you want on the subject of minimalism, its musical style on a treadmill, its major composers likewise. Yet here is Reich’s “Different Trains,” introduced last December at New Music America in … Continue reading →

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Record reviews

Posted on February 12, 1989 by Alan Rich

Reinhold Moritsevich Gliere died as recently as 1956; his musical style suggests a much earlier date. His memory is kept alive by two works, one tiny (a dance from his satiric ballet “The Red Poppy”)  the other huge (the Symphony … Continue reading →

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Beethoven 10+1

Posted on February 1, 1989 by Alan Rich

Did the world really need a Tenth Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven? Apparently so, says a British musicologist named Barry Cooper, and who’s to say he’s wrong? Nothing would please me more, in fact, than to be able to greet … Continue reading →

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Ring video

Posted on January 15, 1989 by Alan Rich

Old Sourpuss has finally made it. His “one indivisible, supreme creation of the mind of man” — that being Richard Wagner’s own modest appraisal of his “Ring of the Nibelung” — has now achieved its ultimate consecration. Would the old … Continue reading →

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Steve Reich

Posted on January 1, 1983 by Alan Rich

This is Steve Reich, at the home of Betty Freeman, speaking to a roomful of invited guests about his composition “Tehillim,” which was brand-new at the time. STEVE REICH:  (1/16/83) I thought to play one piece on tape today, Tehillim, … Continue reading →

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