Previous posts for October 3rd are here: Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Woldemar Bargiel, Chubby Checker, Steve Reich (2019) and Steve Reich; Lindsey Buckingham (2020)
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Continuity
“He didn’t reinvent the wheel so much as he showed us a new way to ride.” John Adams, qtd. In Wikipedia
Reich, no longer 84,
Opened an important door,
To kinds of sound not heard before.
Though once regarded as a terror,
He’s now respected as the bearer
Of a flame so all-embracing
Some have fears of it replacing
Other modernist traditions
With its varied repetitions.
No matter how we sometimes feel
He didn't reinvent the wheel,
Instead he worked against the grain
And gave the wheel a different train.
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