{"id":3288,"date":"2016-10-03T09:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2016-10-03T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T16:04:52","slug":"happy-80th-to-steve-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2016\/10\/happy-80th-to-steve-reich.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy 80th to Steve Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A FEW years back I spent an hour or so with Steve Reich before a concert of his work. <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2004\/oct\/23\/entertainment\/et-reich23\">Here<\/a> is the story I wrote about the pioneering minimalist, who marks his 80<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Steve_Reich2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Steve_Reich2.jpg\" alt=\"steve_reich2\" width=\"291\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a>th birthday today.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by how down to earth Reich was, also how deep his love of Bartok seemed to be.<\/p>\n<p>Reich&#8217;s &#8220;Different Trains&#8221; and &#8220;Music for 18 Musicians&#8221; are two of my all-time favorite pieces. Seeing the latter at Walt Disney Concert Hall was one of the most startling shows I&#8217;ve ever ever seen &#8212; all those singers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A FEW years back I spent an hour or so with Steve Reich before a concert of his work. Here is the story I wrote about the pioneering minimalist, who marks his 80th birthday today. I was struck by how down to earth Reich was, also how deep his love of Bartok seemed to be. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[717,714],"class_list":{"0":"post-3288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-minimalism","8":"tag-music","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3292,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/3292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}