Steve Reich At 90: London Sinfonietta SIDE-BY-SIDE
- Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
- From £22, Booking Fees Apply
About Steve Reich At 90: London Sinfonietta SIDE-BY-SIDE
Chloe Rooke conductor
Jonny Greenwood electric guitar/bass guitar
London Sinfonietta
Academy Manson Ensemble
STEVE REICH Clapping Music; Pulse; Radio Rewrite; Electric Counterpoint; City Life
It’s hard to resist the pull of Steve Reich’s music; bright, propulsive rhythms that slip and shift, opening out into glowing harmony.
Celebrating the composer’s 90th birthday, the Academy Manson Ensemble performs SIDE-BY-SIDE with the London Sinfonietta and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood.
Radio Rewrite reimagines two songs by Radiohead, refracted through Reich’s unmistakable rhythmic lens. In Electric Counterpoint, a lone electric guitar weaves itself through a maze of pre-recorded lines, splintering and recombining in hypnotic motion. City Life captures the pulse of Reich’s home city, New York – a collage of street sounds, voices and machinery, alive with constant movement.