#  Steve Reich 

 

 



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 Title: *New York Counterpoint*  
Commission: 1983  
Completed: 1985  
Instrumentation: clarinet and tape  
Premiere Location: Avery Fisher Hall, New York, NY  
Premiere Ensemble:  
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Steve Reich was recently called “our greatest living composer” (*New York Times*), “America’s greatest living composer” (*The Village Voice*), “. . . the most original musical thinker of our time” (*The New Yorker*), and “. . . among the great composers of the century” (*New York Times*). From his early taped speech pieces *It's Gonna Rain* (1965) and *Come Out* (1966) to his and video artist Beryl Korot’s digital video opera *Three Tales* (2002), Mr. Reich’s path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. “There's just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them,” states the *Guardian* (London).

 Steve Reich’s music has been performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world, including the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta; the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas; The Ensemble Modern conducted by Bradley Lubman, The Ensemble Intercontemporain conducted by David Robertson, the London Sinfonietta conducted by Markus Stenz and Martyn Brabbins, the Theater of Voices conducted by Paul Hillier, the Schoenberg Ensemble conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Robert Spano; the Saint Louis Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin; the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Neal Stulberg; the BBC Symphony conducted by Peter Eötvös; and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Commission Date
    
     [1983](/commissiondate/1983)
- ## Completion Date
    
     [1985](/completiondate/1985)
- ## Composer
    
     [Reich, Steve](/composer/reich-steve)
- ## Commissions
    
     [Past Commissions](/pastcommisions)