Steve Reich At 90: Radio Rewrite – The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead

About this event

Radical. Other-worldly. Pushing tonality to the limit. Who’s on stage Colin Currie conducts and home orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia brings the melodies for this electrifying performance. What they’re playing Steve Reich has spent a lifetime reshaping what music can be. In this concert, you’ll hear three works, Pulse, Eight Lines and Radio Rewrite, which show him at his boldest. What’s happening in the music? Pulse is all about clarity and warmth. Glowing harmonies carried by steady beats, with music that feels at once grounded and weightless, while Eight Lines pushes rhythm and texture to the edge, its fast-moving patterns interlock, overlap, and surge forward in waves of colour. Then there’s Radio Rewrite, Reich’s striking response to the music of Radiohead. It’s a piece that takes fragments of rock songs and reimagines them as something mesmeric, driving. It’s unmistakably Reich, undeniably Radiohead.

Cast & creative

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  Conductor

  Colin Currie
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  Conductor

  Colin Currie
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  Conductor

  Colin Currie
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  Composer

  Steve Reich
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  Composer

  Steve Reich
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  Composer

  Steve Reich