Reading the news on NewMusicBox just this moment brought a big smile to my face.
There was a time, a long, long time, when Reich didn’t stand a chance to win a Pulitzer, as there was a stylistic bias against such music at the Pulitzer and any other number of important music awards. So many of my Reich favorites, Music for 18 Musicians, Drumming, Tehilim, Different Trains…they were never considered.
Reich won it, in 2009 for Double Sextet. If you want to see and hear a video of the work, click this link to NewMusicBox.
Hooray for Reich, for music, and for the Pulitzer Board.
I would now point you towards my blog last summer: How I Learned to Love Steve Reich.
Oh, and here’s a link to an interview I did of Reich.
And finally, here’s a link to an interview Steve Reich did of me (really!)
I would also like to mention that the runners-up were Don Byron, and my dear friend Harold Meltzer.
