About

The first installment of a 2-weekend, mini-festival celebrating the 80th birthday of one of America’s greatest musical minds, Steve Reich. Steve Reich has been called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times), "America’s greatest living composer" (The Village VOICE), “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “...among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). "There are just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian (London). Program: Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973) Electric Counterpoint (1987) Sextet (1984) Joined by Tristan Boyd, Andrew Dobos, Taylor Eddinger, Sean Harvey, Chris Lizak, Page Stephens, Kirsten Watson and Dana Zenobi.

Event Details

• Date: Saturday, May 14, 8:00 PM and Sunday, May 15, 4:00 PM
• Time: Saturday, May 14, 8:00 PM and Sunday, May 15, 4:00 PM
• Venue: Dougherty Arts Center
• Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reich-tickets-24459126907

Ticket Information

• Cost: $12

Presenter Details

• Name: line upon line percussion

line upon line percussion seeks new ways for percussion instruments to advance contemporary art music by performing newly commissioned works alongside existent masterpieces, for adventurous and curious listeners. To date, the Austin-based trio has commissioned and premiered fifteen new works, four of which appear on their full-length, self-titled album. The group’s in-house creative project, seeing times are not hidden, won top prize at the 2011 Music in Architecture-Architecture in Music Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The work involves over 1000 glass, metal and hardwood chimes suspended from the three arches of Waller Creek Bridge. In April 2013, line upon line gave the North American premiere of Hugues Dufourt’s massive evening-length masterpiece, Erewhon, which enlists the use of nearly 150 percussion instruments. The group’s self-presented concert series, now in its third year, was recently listed as one of the Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014 by the Austin Chronicle. Its 2015-2016 opener, soft, received an honorable mention in the most recent version of the award.

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