ARTS The Michigan Daily Tuesday, April 11, 1989 Page 7 Artist unveils 'Reich music' BY WILLIAM (BILL) C. BANFIELD V HEN I wrote the preview for Steve Reich's concert, I posed the question, "What is the music of the modern composer?" Reich's answer was something like this: "What do you mean? The composer creates the music he/she feels." Reich's music was heard by a packed house of admirers Saturday night at the Michigan Theater, and they would simply answer the question like this: "Reich music." So, what is Reich music? What is known to us as minimalism, (the reduc- tion of musical materials to simple repetitive phrases shifted slightly by rhythmic displacement or subtle additive harmony over a long period) was heard in full form. Reich's new album features an incredible composition called "Different Trains." The piece uses pre-recorded material, and is really an autobiographical documentary on the different experience of being a young Jewish boy traveling back and forth across the United States (New York to California) during the early '40s, and the experience of thousands of Jewish people travel- ing in Europe during the same time. The story is told by persons who were a part of Reich's childhood or had similar traveling experiences as Jews in Europe during this time. Although their stories are heard as broken speech fragments, they provide the major themes (the story, rhythm and harmony) of Reich's composition. . Reich is currently dressing "Different Trains" in a format he calls "music theater/video." In this new format of the piece, Reich sees it being experienced three ways: The stories would be told by the characters projected on a large screen, the musicians would simultaneously play the materials derived from the speech patterns, and the audience would hear the music and experience the drama of the storytelling. Reich responded that "Different Trains" "dealt with the state of affairs"; it is social art. Reich stated that, "Good art lives and dies on the strength of its music, not on the validity of its political stance." He cited Wagner as one who wrote music that was politically potent yet also stood as "good art." Besides the Western European traditions, Re- ich is also heavily influenced by the African American traditional forms, as well as his studies of African drumming and Balinese musical forms. Did these influences come to bear on the per- formance Saturday night? Overall, Reich's con- cert was truly enjoyable and the performances were extraordinary and seemingly flawless (except for the musician who dropped something during the quiet moment in "Sextet"). The concert was opened by a piece called "Clapping Music." It was just that. David Tanenbaum's playing of "Electric Counterpoint" was at first problematic, because the early en- trances with pre-recorded tracks seemed out of synch. But this soon turned into a wonderful and warm mesh of live and taped guitar textures. "Six Pianos" was very intriguing, as we rarely get a chance to hear six pianists play together. In all the pieces, Reich incorporates much of the musical language we know as commonplace in this culture (atonality, jazz and traditional). But as all great artists must do, Reich brought his inventiveness to bear upon the language, and we got something called Reich Music. As well, one could clearly hear the influences of other cultural forms. My only concern is not an attack against Re- ich's art, but given as an issue for reflection. Reich's composition "Drumming," which was "other cultural"-influenced and brought to the tonal art museum (concert stage), shares with other such works the need to be presented in its cultural context, lest it not be appreciated fully. I share this story told to me by an old African: "The man came to us and told us to put away our religion. And he told us to throw away our art. So he took it to the shores, and told us he threw it in the water. Years later we saw our art Steve Reich performed his own brand of minimalistic music Saturday T in their museums." night at the Michigan Theater. Records Last Exit rather c Sonny S Iron Path warped, Venture, Virgin Records What fo The name of the group, the title ten bril of the album, even the ominous ab- Exit is stractions on the cover, all seem to drumme speak metal. 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