The world “as will and repetition”.
f we adapt Schopenhauer’s famous title in this way, it almost gives us… Steve Reich! His music can just about be classified on Wikipedia as “minimalism.” Reich is probably the authentic “wind” of today’s life: soft spirals, New York biorhythms, the ephemerality of romantic sensations, pounding passions, blends between Africa and the Nakagin building, beats in magical inventories… but above all the action, in real-time, of the compositional process. “I want my music to make some difference in their lives”, declares Reich, who was happy to move away from Darmstadt orthodoxy in the 1970s and make “tonal, very tonal” music (summoning Thelonius Monk and Perotin) to become, today at 86, one of the most influential composers of our time.
Steve Reich, composer and musician.
Pedro Pablo Cámara, musician.
Juanjo Guillem, musician.
Moderator: Luis Ángel de Benito, journalist, writer and music promoter.
