" Daniel Variations " CREATION 2006
" Music for Eighteen Musicians "
Saturday November 18, 2006 l 19h30 MC2 : Grenoble
Unit Steve Reich and Musicians, Chorus Synergy Vocals, (Brad Lubman, direction), Steve Reich (piano, sound diffusion)
One of the major trends in contemporary music, minimalism, was born in the USA in the 1970s. Standing apart from the European music heritage, Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Phil Glass invented a new type of music, dubbed “repetitive”, that was made up of short melodic, harmonic or rhythmic patterns that shifted over time, creating an infinite number of variations.
The performance of Steve Reich and his band in Grenoble is a major musical event. The bill features two works: the first, “Daniel Variations”, followed by one of the composers “classics”. “Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002, used his passion for music to build friendships all around the world, bridging cultural and linguistic divides.” Steve Reich wished to make Pearl the subject of his latest work.
In “Music for Eighteen Musicians”, a 1976 composition that ensured Reich’s international renown, the composer draws upon the quintessence of his musical processes based on repetition to unfold a constantly blossoming musical universe, built around a cycle of eleven chords that provide the energy for this vast musical “pulsar”.
Daniel Variations, French creation, ordering of Barbican Center, Carnegie Hall corporation, the City of the Music, of Casa da Musica Porto and of the Daniel Pearl Foundation
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