| On It’s Gonna Rain, Drumming, and the relationship between art and political statements. (4:44) |  |
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Throughout his career, Steve Reich has been adamant that political
meaning in music is pointless if the music itself is not compelling on
its own artistic merits. Yet he has produced work with propulsive political
force—from Come Out (1966), built on a snatch of recorded testimony from
one of the Harlem Six murder suspects, to Daniel Variations, which was
commissioned in memory of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
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