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Reich’s 1988 work for string quartet and tape, Different Trains,
is perhaps the most personally political and also the most quietly affecting.
The piece recalls the composer’s regular childhood cross-country train journeys
between his divorced parents—his mother in California and his father in New York.
Later in life he began to look back and reflect that, as a Jew, if he had been living
in Europe at that time, he would likely have embarked on a train journey of a very
different sort.
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