Still Clapping After All These Years

Steve Reich turns 70 next year, and as the music world gears up to celebrate the ever-changing, never-at-rest composer, the man himself shows no sign of realizing that he’s supposed to be in the twilight of his multifaceted career. “His ideas emerge in a swift current of words, formed by the crisscrossings of different streams of thought – not unlike his music, in which ideas are introduced, examined, juxtaposed, pursued, rediscovered.”