New York-based composer Steve Reich has won the Pulitzer Prize for music with his piece Double Sextet. Reich composed the work for two identical sextets of instruments, each made up of flute, clarinet ...

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved... Steve Reich has always been able to hear the pulse Forgive ...

Almost as in deference to the minimalist approach of composer Steve Reich, these two discs distill their titles down to simply Reich / Richter on one and Steve Reich on the other. It's a hint on ...

Steve Reich’s music always, and often spectacularly so, knows where it's going. It may surprise you. Startlingly sudden shifts of meter and/or harmony are a trademark. You might not expect to end up ...

The experimental composer Daniel Lopatin names several key works that define the genre. By Mitchell Kuga Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, ...

One thing I learned spending an entire week listening to a big box of Steve Reich’s music is that there’s no box big enough for Steve Reich’s music. I had originally intended to listen to “Collected ...

Before he was a dominant All-Star power forward who helped usher in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ first great championship era during the early 1990s, Kevin Stevens was a newcomer from Boston trying to get ...

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

Forgive the pun, but the American composer Steve Reich has had his finger on the pulse of Western music for over six decades. Like the rudimentary shapes and colors of Sol LeWitt's deceptively ...

Steve Reich’s music always, and often spectacularly so, knows where it’s going. It may surprise you. Startlingly sudden shifts of meter and/or harmony are a trademark. You might not expect to end up ...