The sixth episode in an anniversary series around the 80th birthday of Steve Reich later this year: the late 70s. In the late 70s, Reich developed the style with which he would become famous with the general public. That style is a mix of chord progression, psycho acoustics and simplification. And still the African rhythms, that are stuck in his memory since the beginning of his career, are shimmering. 

A programme from our Contemporary Music department. Works by Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012). Part 3 of 5.

A meditation on contemporary music. Timeless, that’s today’s music in Kairos. This applies to the ‘new’ music by for example Y Create, Henryk Górecki and Arno Dieteren, as well as to the ‘old’ music by John Dowland and Robert Johnson, as well as to the even older anonymous music from the Carmina Burana manuscript. We will hear a clip from a Buddhist prayer song. An unusual work by Bonnie Prince and Sting.