Writings on Music, 1965-2000 - Tapa dura

Most valuably of all, there's a new, searching interview with Paul Hillier that probes Reich's working methods, past and present. BBC Music Magazine Having this volume as a ready reference lends invaluable insight to the works included in the Nonesuch retrospective and, perhaps just as importantly, to those that were left out ... These 65 entries comprise the closest thing we have to a full-length study of one of the most significant composers of the late-20th century. Gramophone Some of his [Reich's] most important observations (regarding both his own music and the arts in general) are delivered in a deliberately aphoristic form, as perhaps befits a former philosophy major who studied at Cornell in the wake of Wittgenstein. David Nicholls, Times Literary Supplement These 65 entries comprise the closest thing we have to a full-length study of one of the most significant composers of the late-20th century. Gramophone Throughout, Reich proves a blunt, perceptive observer of trends in art and music. Time Out New York

A collection of the composer Steve Reich's writings on music, from his 1968 essay, "Music as a Gradual Process," which was the founding call for the development of Minimalism, to his work on non-Western music such as the Balinese and African influences that contributed to well-known compositions such as "Drumming." There are 64 articles by Reich in the collection, which culminates in an interview between Reich and Paul Hiller, well-known in his own right as a performer and leader of the experimental ensemble "Theatre of Voices".