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Alarm Will Sound (Naomi White)
The Manhattan-based new music group Alarm Will Sound saw its beginnings at the Eastman School of Music, eventually growing into a 20-member ensemble that the New York Times calls "the future of classical music." Tonight they team up with another Eastman ensemble, Ossia, for Steve Reich's "Music for a Large Ensemble."
Steve Reich's "Music for a Large Ensemble"
Written for the Holland Festival in 1978, Steve Reich's "Music for a Large Ensemble" employs just what the title says: string instruments, flutes, clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, pianos, marimbas, xylophones and two female voices. Reich said of the piece that he wished to use "the human breath as the measure of ...
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