Name: Reich
Start: 2016-05-14T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2016-05-15T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Dougherty Arts Center

Reich

Formed in 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin, line upon line exists to champion living composers and pursue the musically unfamiliar.The Austin-based trio has premiered over 70 new works for percussion and has worked with composers in residencies at Stanford University, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, City University of London and Monash University (Melbourne).Internationally, the group has performed at the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Open Circuit Festival (Liverpool), in Basel (Hochschule für Musik), Berlin (Unerhörte Musik), Cologne (Loft Köln), Freiburg (Hochschule für Musik) and London (City, University of London) and has taught at the Conservatoriums in Melbourne and Sydney, London (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music) and Tours (Le pôle Aliénor).Nationally, line upon line has performed and taught in twenty-two different states, at two Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento) and The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT).In Texas, the group has performed at two Fusebox Festivals, the Menil Collection (Houston), Victoria Bach Festival, and the International Festival-Institute at Round Top.line upon line consists of its three original members: Adam Bedell, Cullen Faulk and Matthew Teodori.

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The first installment of a 2-weekend, mini-festival celebrating the 80th birthday of one of America’s greatest musical minds, Steve Reich. 
Steve Reich has been called "our greatest living composer" (The New York Times), "America’s greatest living composer" (The Village VOICE), “...the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker) and “...among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times). "There are just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history and Steve Reich is one of them," states The Guardian (London).
Program:
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ (1973)
Electric Counterpoint (1987)
Sextet (1984)
Joined by Tristan Boyd, Andrew Dobos, Taylor Eddinger, Sean Harvey, Chris Lizak, Page Stephens, Kirsten Watson and Dana Zenobi.
 
*Part 2:
May 19-21 - four complete performances of Reich's landmark work, Drumming, alongside Kathy Dunn Hamrick Dance Company's More or Less. <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.kdhdance.com/upcoming-performances/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click here for Drumming tickets.</A> 
*Note: The first and second weekends of this mini-festival take place at two different venues.

Dougherty Arts Center

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