Steve Reich: How I broke through
Daily Comfort ZoneThe US composer, 87, has given a compelling, frame by frame, account of how he arrived at his first composition.
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Reichs music is interesting and sometimes moving unless you get stuck on Sonos classical listening to his 1988 “Different Trains” which @ 27 minutes could be the single most annoying and repetitive piece of minimalist classical music ever written.
I’d rather listen to Cages, 4:30.