#four organs

[lascitasdelashoras]

Steve Reich - Four Organs - Phase Patterns

[an-album-cover-a-day]

Steve Reich, Three Dances & Four Organs

[nonesuchrecords]

It was 25 years ago: an album of Steve Reich's New York Counterpoint, performed by Evan Ziporyn, and Eight Lines (Octet) and Four Organs, performed by Bang on a Can, was released on Nonesuch. You can hear it here. The Washington Post declared: Eight Lines is “a dazzling and invigorating work,” and “no previous recording has ever come close to the clarity and ecstatic intensity” of Four Organs. The album can also be found in the new 27-disc box set Steve Reich Collected Works released last month. 

[earhartsease]

once again a shoutout and huge gratitude to this particular recording of this particular piece, Four Organs by Steve Reich, that's been successfully soothing me for *counts* 46 years now, it drives some people crazy but if you're the right combo of neurodivergences like me, this is some amazing, calming, integrating magic

I love that at the start, you can hear the bleedthrough on the original recording tape

[spacetownhigh]

[wepausedandsang]

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As a production exercise, I’ve made an ambient remix of Steve Reich’s Four Organs

[guillaume-en-egypte]

Four Organs was first performed in May 1970 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. It was received well at the premiere, and performances later that year in the United States and Europe received respectful, and in some cases enthusiastic, responses. Subsequent audiences were not always as polite. October 1971 performances by Reich and members of the Boston Symphony (at Symphony Hall in Boston) received a combination of "loud cheers, loud boos, and whistles." A 1973 performance of Four Organs at Carnegie Hall in New York City nearly caused a riot, with "yells for the music to stop, mixed with applause to hasten the end of the piece." One of the performers, Michael Tilson Thomas, recalls: "One woman walked down the aisle and repeatedly banged her head on the front of the stage, wailing 'Stop, stop, I confess.' [X]

[itgotinmyears]

Reich: Eight Lines by Bang On A Can on the album Reich: New York Counterpoint, Eight Lines, Four Organs. Listened to on December 04, 2015 at 01:23AM.