Manchester Classical – Jonny Greenwood performs Reich with the Hallé
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Manchester Classical - Jonny Greenwood performs Reich with the Hallé
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Friday night opens with a minimalist masterclass: Steve Reich’s hypnotic Pulse, performed by the Hallé and featuring Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood on electric bass. Greenwood’s love of Reich is well-documented, but seeing him join Manchester’s flagship orchestra in person promises something special.
Reich’s iconic Clapping Music, its instrument just human hands, starts this unmissable event.
Runner formed a double premiere at Covent Garden in 2016, when the Royal Ballet danced Wayne McGregor’s Multiverse to the score which the New York Times described as ‘a calmly luminous orchestral piece.’
Scored for winds, strings, piano and electric bass, the San Francisco Chronicle said of Pulse, “…this 15-minute work sounds unlike almost anything else in Reich’s catalog. Pulse is built around long, tenderly arching melodies and spacious harmonies…”
Beginning its life as a commission for the London Sinfonietta,Variations for Vibes, Piano and Strings plays with irregular accents to produce an upbeat, positive harmonic feeling throughout.
