Artist	Song
Michael Riesman & Philip Glass Ensemble	Glasspieces (Choreographed By Jerome Robbins): Glasspiece #1 ("Rubric" from Glassworks)
from Glass: Dancepieces (1987)
Kronos Quartet & Wu Man	The Cusp of Magic: III. The Nursery
from Riley: The Cusp of Magic (2008)
Louis Andriessen	M is for Man, Music, Mozart: Instrumental I
from Andriessen: De Stijl - M is for Man, Music, Mozart (2005)
Balanescu Quartet	String Quartet No. 2: VI.
from Nyman: String Quartets Nos. 1-3 (2002)
Michael Torke & Present Music	Telephone Book: I. The Yellow Pages
from Michael Torke: Six (2005)
David Abel, Deborah Dietrich, Karen Rosenak, Philip Brett, UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus & William Winant	Rothko Chapel: 3rd Movement
from Feldman: Rothko Chapel, Why Patterns? (1991)
American Gamelan, American Gamelan Chorus, Berkeley Chorus, Charles Brett & John Bergamo	La Koro Sutro: Strofo 1
from Harrison: La Koro Sutro (1988)
Moondog	Marimba Mondo 2
from The German Years (2004)
Manhattan Percussion Ensemble & Paul Price	Hovhaness - October Mountain - II.
from Antheil, Chavez, Hovhaness, LoPresti: Music For Percussion - The Complete 1960 Urania Stereo Recordings (1960)
Meredith Monk	Travellers 1, 2, 3
from Book of Days (1990)
Dedalus & Didier Aschour	Rational Melodies: II
from Tom Johnson: Rational Melodies (2010)
Eighth Blackbird	Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale): Variations On Sea-Time: Sea Theme
from Kellogg: Divinum Mysterium - Crumb: Voice of the Whale (2000)
Pauline Oliveros	The Fool's Circle
from Crone Music (1990)
Arvo Pärt, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tönu Kaljuste	Psalom
from Litany (1996)
Chicago Symphony Chorus & John Nelson	Euntes Ibant Et Flebant
from Henryk Górecki: Miserere (2005)

Comment:

No matter what type of modern music is your cup of tea, your favorite artists likely sound something like Reich. With its dizzying pace, constantly morphing time signatures, and synth-meets-sax soundscape, the 30-year-old "Glasspieces (Choreographed By Jerome Robbins): Glasspiece #1 ('Rubric' from Glassworks)" hints at maestro Philip Glass' later triumphs in film scores to Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi. Speaking of scores, a plague-ridden medieval village from Meredith Monk's debut film, Book of Days, acts as the backdrop for the haunting and propulsive a cappella vocalizations in her "Travellers 1, 2, 3." And "The Cusp of Magic: III. The Nursery (Terry Riley)," commissioned by the Kronos Quartet from minimalist deity Terry Riley, swathes itself in dreamlike textures woven from a big, cottony skein of found sound, dissonance, and the angelic voice of Wu Man. From the Balanescu Quartet to Arvo Pärt, from Moondog to Pauline Oliveros, we've got all the avant-garde avatars who shared the concert stages — and critics' pages — with Steve Reich.

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