REICH, Steve
(*1936)
REICH, Steve (3 October 1936). Not unlike his Juilliard classmate and sometime colleague Philip Glass , Reich began as a daunting avant-garde composer whose work has become more accessible and popular over the years. What Music in Twelve Parts (1974) is for Glass, Drumming (1971) is for Reich, which is to say the apex of his radical style——a composition that benefits from being longer and thus more ambitious than his previous works. Reich's original radical idea was a strain of modular music…