‘Tis a Season of Birthdays

To close off our week-long Maximum Reich 2.0 festival, on Sunday at 2 p.m., Cued Up is raising the champagne glass to some of the composer's most compelling and blissful chamber music.

Oct 10, 2011

Happy Birthday 2 Us!

I am pretty astonished that Q2 Music is turning two this coming Sunday! It seems like so recently that we folks sat down in a room and brainstormed about the ideal internet locale for... Oct 3, 2011

It's My Party And I'll Phase If I Want To

The eternally youthful, endlessly listenable Steve Reich turns three-quarters of a century young on Monday and Hammered! is joining the group hug. Tune in 11 am and 11 pm all week fo... Oct 3, 2011

Maximum Reich 2.0

To celebrate the 75th birthday of Steve Reich (born October 3, 1936) and the second birthday of Q2 Music (born October 8, 2009), we're presenting a renewed and rejuvenated version of... Sep 29, 2011

Bang the Drum Quickly

Juilliard's 20th-century music ensemble Axiom returns to Cued Up this Sunday at 2 for Steve Reich's seminal work Drumming. May 15, 2011

Set Your Phasers to Stun

If there were ever a composer in no need of introduction, it’s the eternally youthful and forever hip Steve Reich. Tune into Cued Up at 2 pm for live performances of his Triple Quarte... Mar 27, 2011

Eight Days of Steve: eighth blackbird

Steve Reich has graciously allowed me to share a few emails from his correspondence with eighth blackbird during the composition and preparation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2008 wor... Dec 18, 2009

Maximum Reich: Mallet Quartet

This Wednesday night, December 16th, at 9pm hear a special presentation of the world premiere performance of Steve Reich’s 2009Mallet Quartet. Also included will be his 2006 piece Dan... Dec 16, 2009

Eight Days of Steve: David Harrington

1985 (I guess it must’ve been) was the first time I sat down with Steve Reich to ask him to write for Kronos.  Dec 16, 2009

From the Archives: 30 Years of Conversations at WNYC

Follow interviews spanning a 30-year career with composer Steve Reich as he appears on landmark New York Public Radio shows with hosts John Schaefer, Tim Page and Leonard Lopate.  Dec 16, 2009