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- From: pugh@pico.math.ucla.edu (David Pugh)
- Subject: Re: Steve Reich's "Different Trains"
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.002747.22984@math.ucla.edu>
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- Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department
- References: <1992Nov22.011743.9194@math.ucla.edu> <102814@bu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 00:27:47 GMT
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- In article <102814@bu.edu> jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov22.011743.9194@math.ucla.edu> pugh@pico.math.ucla.edu (David Pugh) writes:
- >>In article <1992Nov18.174035.15561@math.ucla.edu> pugh@pico.math.ucla.edu (David Pugh) writes:
- >
- >> I think it is
- >>probably Steve Reich's most personal and serious piece yet (the Desert
- >>Music coming a close second).
- >
- >Most personal maybe, but I find "Tehillim" a very serious piece of
- >work and his best.
- >
- Haven't heard it. Presumably a Hebrew word meaning what?
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >Music written around personal themes is very important and Reich is
- >obviously not the first person to have written such music.
- >
- Sure. There must be hundreds of pieces like that! Britten's Peter
- Grimes is a classic example !!
-
- >I think
- >that "Different Trains" benefitted very much from the closeness of
- >the theme to Reich -- it certainly would have been a less moving piece
- >without this personal aspect.
- >
- >Gregg
-
- Well I suppose if Reich hadn't been Jewish he wouldn't have had a
- reason to write the piece! However, even though I am not Jewish
- (well 3% actually - does that count?) I can still listen to the piece
- and be moved by it. When I listen to the piece I don't really think about
- Reich's personal involvement. Instead I think about what was going on in
- Europe at that time as documented by the text fragments in the piece.
- I like the mood changes too.
-
- David
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