Performance
Press Quotes
Press contact: Steven Swartz, dotdotdotmusic@gmail.com
"...a performance of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" by the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble around 5 a.m. on Sunday was attended by more than 400 people, by Mr. Lang's estimate. For listeners present from the evening's onset, that performance took on unanticipated dimensions: higher cognitive functions ceded to powerful impressions of physicality and emotion. The entry of the maracas in Section VI felt epic."
read the full review HERE.
"...Music for 18 Musicians...felt like an epiphany..."
read the full review HERE.
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
"The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble just wrapped up a transfixing performance...all seemed imbued with a greater emotional weight"
read the full review HERE.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
"Last month I posted about the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble and its project of learning Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians". After 26 rehearsals and classes and a field trip to New York, the performance took place...the group's director sent me an MP3 of excerpts, and it sounds impressive."
read the full entry HERE.
Press contact: Steven Swartz, dotdotdotmusic@gmail.com
"...a performance of Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" by the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble around 5 a.m. on Sunday was attended by more than 400 people, by Mr. Lang's estimate. For listeners present from the evening's onset, that performance took on unanticipated dimensions: higher cognitive functions ceded to powerful impressions of physicality and emotion. The entry of the maracas in Section VI felt epic."
read the full review HERE.
"...Music for 18 Musicians...felt like an epiphany..."
read the full review HERE.
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
"The Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble just wrapped up a transfixing performance...all seemed imbued with a greater emotional weight"
read the full review HERE.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise
"Last month I posted about the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble and its project of learning Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians". After 26 rehearsals and classes and a field trip to New York, the performance took place...the group's director sent me an MP3 of excerpts, and it sounds impressive."
read the full entry HERE.