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Minimalists

Artist Song
Steve Reich  Music for 18 Musicians: Section V  
Michael Riesman & Philip Glass Ensemble  Music in Twelve Parts: Part 5 Beginning  
re-sound  In C: Part 02  
Amy Shulman & John Schneider  Sarabande  
Meredith Monk & Robert Een  Facing North: Long Shadows 1  
Washington Saxophone Quartet  Songs for Tony  
Edo de Waart & San Francisco Symphony  Shaker Loops: II. Hymning slews  
Carol Wincenc & Sharon Isbin  Snow Dreams  
Verquer  Workers Union (Louis Andriessen)  
Alex Sopp, Seth Baer, Michael Clayville, Nico Sirota, Nadia Sirota, Logan Coale, Young People's Chorus of New York, Francisco Nuñez, Valgier Sigurosson & Ben Frost  I Drink The Air Before Me: Fire Down Below  
Catrin Demenga, Christian Sutter, Maacha Deubner, Natalia Paschenitschnikova, Rebecca Firth, Ruth Killius & Wladimir Jurowski  Exil (1994): II. Einmal  
David Zinman, Dawn Upshaw & London Sinfonietta  Symphony No. 3: II. Lento e largo - Tranquillissimo  
Kronos Quartet  Cold War Suite from How It Happens (The Voice of I.F. Stone): What Would Have Happened  
The California Ear Unit  Egyptian Two Step  
Kate Geissinger, Theo Bleckmann, John Benthal, Toby Twining, Martin Goldray, Tony Boutte, David Cossin & Bohdan Hilash  The Carbon Copy Building: Scenes 7-8: What's the hurry? (Delivery Boy)  
David Behrman  Canons  
Kyle Bobby Dunn  Statuit  
Tim Weiss & Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble  In The White Silence: Letter C  
Gavin Bryars Ensemble  The Sinking of the Titanic: II. Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All strings  
Theatre of Voices  Hymnodic Delays: III. Swept Away  
Franz Joseph String Quartet  Summa  
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra & David Zinman  Purple  
Basel Sinfonietta & Kasper de Roo  Decasia: Part V  
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company  Train (1970)  

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We don't mean to minimize the contributions of minimalist giants, such as Philip Glass, Terry Riley, or LaMonte Young, but since we have minimal space, we thought it wise to bring into focus some of the music's lesser-known masters. If Arvo Pärt's "Summa" calls to mind the world of Gregorian chants and early medieval polyphony, that's no surprise; in fact, its soaring vocals open with the Credo from the Roman Catholic Latin Mass: "Credo in unum Deum." Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company, widely regarded as the world's first synthesizer ensemble, takes the proceedings in a more secular — not to mention more overtly ambient — direction with the starkly gorgeous landscape of "Train (1970)." And in Gavin Bryars' poignantly haunting "The Sinking of the Titanic: II. Titanic Hymn (Autumn) All Strings," you can hear both echoes of "Amazing Grace" and the groaning, otherworldly sounds of a huge ship disappearing beneath the Atlantic's surface. But don't stop there; from John Adams to Joan Tower, from Henryk Gorecki to Michael Nyman, the minimalist composers featured here have generated maximum impact.
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