Evening Music

The Hindenburg

The Tale of the Hindenburg

Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Composer Steve Reich addresses the transformative and unsettling impact of technology on the twentieth century in his work, "Three Tales." We hear "Hindenburg" — the first segment in this digital video opera collaboration Reich made with his wife, Beryl Korot.

Music and Technology

Prior Reich works have drawn from divergent influences such as non-Western and American vernacular music and taped interviews. "Three Tales" uses diverse sources of contemporary technologies (computers, recordings, video, samplers) as well as earlier tools (including looms) as a means to construct and approach a composition.

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