1/5. Forty years ago, a musical revolution took place in New York that was to have a huge impact on contemporary music: Minimalism. Its protagonists were regarded by many as charlatans, yet their work has had widespread popular appeal and has permeated the mainstream of commercial music. Donald Macleod recounts the tales of these pioneering composers - La Monte Young, Terry Riley , Steve Reich and Philip Glass - in 1960s America. John Adams Short Ride in a Fast Machine San Francisco SO, conductor Edo de Waart La Monte Young The Second Dream of the High-Tension Stepdown Transformer Theatre of Eternal Music
Terry Riley In C Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, Buffalo, New York Steve Reich Come Out
Performed by the composer (tape)
Terry Riley A Rainbow in Curved Air Performed by the composer (electric organ, electric harpsichord, rocksichord, dumbak, tambourine) Philip Glass Music in Contrary Motion
Steffen Schleiermacher (electric organ)
Producer Deborah Preston Repeated on Sunday at 12 midnight