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Royal Albert Hall
Kensington Gore
Kensington
London
SW7 2AP
England
Programme
Steve Reich – It's Gonna Rain
Steve Reich – The Desert Music (chamber version)
Performers
David Hill – Conductor
BBC Singers
Endymion
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Programme Note
The after-hours late-night atmosphere is a fitting backdrop to the pulsing rhythmic repetitions of Minimalism’s founding father, Steve Reich. Relive the experimentation of It’s Gonna Rain - the tape piece that first put Reich on the map back in 1965 - its hypnotic layers of spoken sound transforming a street preacher into a strange, disembodied instrument.
The Desert Music twitches and throbs with life, offering a meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams’s poetry. The BBC Singers are joined by contemporary specialists the Endymion ensemble.
There will be no interval