Steve Reich: WTC 9/11
Apr 7th, 2012 by gcunniff
“The piece’s concept is deceptively simple: recounting the tragedy through sampled voices, taken from those who responded to the attack in real time (air traffic controllers, FDNY officers), neighborhood residents, and those who cared for the victims afterward, reciting psalms while keeping watch over the bodies of the dead…Reich generates the musical material directly from the sampled voices, and it’s the rigor and directness of the voice-music connection – and the apparent lack of artifice – that makes for the work’s stark power.” –The Boston Globe