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Steve Reich (October 3, 1936, New-York City, USA) is a composer. He studied composition privately with Hall Overton, then moved on to Juilliard School in New-York to study with William Bergsma and Vincent Persichetti (1958 to 1961). Subsequently he attended Mills College in Oakland where he was taught by Luciano Berio and Darius Milhaud (1961-63) and earned a master’s degree in composition. Early on, Reich was influenced by fellow minimalist Terry Riley’s loosely-structured aleatoric works which combines simple musical patterns, offset in time, to create a slowly-shifting, cohesive whole. Reich adopted this approach to compose his first major work written in 1965, It’s gonna rain… Reich moved on from the phase shifting technique he had pioneered to more elaborate pieces. He investigated other musical processes such as augmentation (the temporal lengthening of phrases and melodic fragments).
Philip Glass is an American composer and musician born 31 January 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Amongst others, he studied music with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger. In 1966 he worked with Ravi Shankar, which changed his perspective on composition. In the fall of 1968, he founded the Philip Glass Ensemble to perform his music and in 1971 he started Chatham Square Production to release his music.
The music on this album is performed by on organs played by Steve Reich, Philip Glass (on Four Organs only), Art Murphy and Jon Gibson (maracas on Four Organs).
Four Organs was recorded in May 1970 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City
Phase Patterns was recorded in November 1970 at the Berkeley Art Museum
