A Study Day on the music of Steve Reich
Kings Place, London – 14 February 2015
Tickets vis the Kings Place Website
9.30 Registration
10.00 Introduction to the study day – John Pymm, Chair of the Society for Minimalist Music.
10.05 Opening Keynote – An Introduction to Steve Reich’s Compositional Development
Through the Lens of its Reception; Keith Potter (Goldsmiths, University of London)
10.40 Break
11.00 Analytical Perspectives on Steve Reich’s Music
- Paul Cassidy (Goldsmiths, University of London): On the Anomalousness of Steve Reich’s Four Organs
- Twila Bakker (Bangor University): New York Counterpoint: Getting to the Core of Reich’s ‘Big Apple’ Piece
- Jason Jedlicka (Indiana University): Exploring Augmentation in Steve Reich’s Double Sextet
12.30 Lunch
1.15 Political and Aesthetic Perspectives
- Sumanth Gopinath (University of Minnesota): ‘Short Chord Gets Long Via Augmentation’: Psychedelic Science Fiction, Erotic Sublimation, and the Hermeneutics of Steve Reich’s Four Organs
- Michael Palmese (Louisiana State University): Disunity and the Act of Memorialization in Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11
- Victoria Aschheim (Princeton University): History as an Image; Different Trains and Its Sketches Through a Benjaminian Lens
2.45 Break
3.00 Narrativity and the Voice
- Jelena Novak ( New University of Lisbon): Documentary Singing: Performing the Voice in Music by Steve Reich
- John Pymm (University of Wolverhampton): ‘On the Right Track?’ Identifying the Various Stories in Different Trains
4.00 Study day ends