Prom 37: Steve Reich
22:15
Wed 13 Aug 2014
Royal Albert Hall
Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the 91Èȱ¬ Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the early experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain with its hypnotic layers of spoken sound, while The Desert Music offers a hypnotising meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry.
Surrender to the pulsing rhythms and repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich, performed by the 91Èȱ¬ Singers and contemporary specialists the Endymion Ensemble. Relive the early experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain with its hypnotic layers of spoken sound, while The Desert Music offers a hypnotising meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry.