artpower at uc san diego Performing Arts Season 2011-2012

SOLD OUT: Bang on a Can All-Stars with red fish blue fish and Steve Reich

Legendary American composer Steve Reich celebrates his seventy-fifth birthday in a concert with New York’s eclectic Bang on a Can All-Stars, red fish blue fish, Steven Schick, and a rare appearance by the composer himself. The ensemble will be performing an evening of Reich’s work including Music for 18 Musicians, one of the handful of late-twentieth-century works that can rightly claim to have altered the course of Western music.

PROGRAM Steve Reich: Clapping Music, Electric Counterpoint, Music for 18 Musicians

ArtTalks!
Pre-performance conversation with the artists at the Department of Music's Conrad Prebys Recital Hall [6–6:30pm]. Moderated by Steven Schick, Distinguished Professor of Music at UC San Diego & Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, Steve Reich.

CO-PRESENTER Department of Music, Wednesdays@7

CAMPUS PARTNERS Sixth College, Eleanor Roosevelt College, Office of Graduate Studies