EMYOFMUSIC ANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER • THE MUSIC OF STEVE REICH TIlE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC Harvey Lichtenstein, President and Executive Producer and THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Lukas Foss, Music Director and Conductor BAM Opera.House November 5-7, 1987 at 8:00 pm November 8, 1987 at 2:00 pm present THE MUSIC OF STEVE REICH THREE MOVEMENTS ELECTRIC COUNTERPOINT World Premiere THE FOUR SECTIONS New York Premiere KENT NAGANO, guest conductor THE BROOKLYN PHILHARMONIC PAT METHENY, guest soloist Electric Counterpoint was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Brooklyn Philharmonic. The music events of the NEXT WAVE Festival are made possible, in part, with a grant from the MARY FLAGLER CARY CHARITABLE TRUST. The opening night reception for STEVE REICH is sponsored· by NEWSWEEK. BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC I ; 111Ir----FE;~AL SPONSORED.BY PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. The 1987 NEXT WAVE Festival is sponsored by PHILIP~ORRIS COMPANIES INC. The NEXT WAVE Production and Touring Fund and Festival are supported by: the NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FORTHE AR1S, THEROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION, THE FORD FOUNDATION, THE ELEANOR NAYWR DANA CHARITABLE TJlUST, PEW CHARITABLE TRU~ the Boom FERRIS FOUNDATION, THE HENRY LUCEFOUNDATION, INC., the AT&lfFOUNDATION, THEHOWARD GILMAN FOUNDATION, THEWILLIAMAND FLORA HEWLETT FOUNDATION, theMAllYFLAGLER CARY CHARITABLETRUST, THEHlNDUJA FOUNDATION, THEEDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION OFAMERICA, the MORGAN GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY,ROBERT W. WllSON, THE REED FOUNDATION INC., theEMMA A. SHEAFERCHARITABLE TRUST, SCHWMBERGER, YVES SAINT LAURENT INTERNATIONAL,andthe NEW YORK. STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS. Additional funds for the NEXT WAVE Festival are provided by: THEBEST PRODUCIS FO~ATION, COCA-COLA ENTERfAINMENT, INC., MEET THE COMPOSER, INC., the CIGNA CORPORATION, THEWILLIAM AND MARY GREVE FOUNDATION, INC., the SAMUEL I. NEWHOUSE FOUNDATION, THE ARMAND G. ERPF FUND, the ARTHUR ROSS FOUNDATION, the HARKNESS BALLET FOUNDATION, INC., THEWEILER-ARNOW FOUNDATION, AIR INDIA, REMYMARI1N AMERIQUE, the BAM Committee for THE MAHABHARATA, and the BAM NEXT WAVE ProducenCouncU. WNYC-FM is the official radio station ofthe NEXT WAVE Festival. The Producers Council provides annual private patronage for BAM's NEXT WAVE Festival and also organizes and sponsors seminars, exhibitions, publications, and special events for this program throughout the year. The Brooklyn Academy ofMusic wishes toexpress its appreciation toTheatre Development Fund for its support oftbis season. The BAM facility is owned by the City ofNew York and its operation is supported, in part,with public funds providedthrough the NEW YORK CITYDEPARTMENT OFCULTURAL AFFAIRS. Theprincipal capital . funding forthe BAM MAJESTIC THEATER was provided by the City ofNew York through the New York City Department ofCultural Affairs with the special assistance of the ·Brooklyn Borough President's Office and the Office ofthe Mayor. Joseph V. Mellllo, Director Michael O'Rand, General Manager Philip Bither, Associate.Director/Music Curator STEVE REICH (Composer) was born in 1936 and Boston Symphony Orchestra in both Symphony raised in New York and California. As a youngster Hall, Boston and Carnegie Hall, New York in 1973. he began studying piano, and at fourteen studied The Desert Music (1984), Mr. Reich's largest work Western rudimental drumming with Roland to date, was a co-commission from the Brooklyn Kohloff, principal tympanist with the New York Academy of Music and the West German Radio in Philharmonic. In 1957 he graduated with honors in Cologne. Scored for large orchestra and chorus, it philosophy from Cornell University. From 1957-58 is set to text by William Carlos Williams. The he studied composition with Hall Overton, and Desert Music received its world premiere March from 1958-61 he studied at the Juilliard School of 17, 1984 in Cologne by the West -German Radio Music with William Bergsma and Vincent Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Peter Eotvos. Persichetti. He received his M.A. in music from The American premiere took place at BAM in Mills College in 1963, where he studied with October 1984 with Michael Tilson Thomas con­ Darius Milhaud and Luciano Berio. During the ducting the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The British summer of 1970, with the help of a travel grant premiere took place during the Proms Concerts in from the Institute for, International Education,·he summer 1985 at Royal Albert Hall by the BBC studied drumming at the Institute for African Symphony and Chorus conducted by Peter Eotvos. Studies at the University of Ghana in Accra. The chamber version, toured by the BAM NEXT During the summers of 1973 and 1974 he studied WAVE Production and Touring Fund in January Balinese Gamelan Semar Pegulingan and Gamelan 1986, was also performed by the San Francisco Gambang with Balinese teachers at the American Symphony in October 1986, the)Ensemble Society for Eastern Arts in Seattle and Berkeley. Intercontemporian in November)986 at the From 1976-77 he studied the traditional forms of Festival DJ\utomne in Paris and Metz ;and the cantillation (chanting) of the Hebrew Scriptures in Schoemberg Ensemble in Amsterdam in June '1987 New York and Jerusalem. In 1966 he formed his as part of the Holland Festival. Steve Reich has own ensemble with three musicians. Since that received commissions from the Holland Festival time Steve Reich and Musicians, which presently (1978); 'Radio Frankfurt (1979); the San Francisco numbers up to 40 musicians, has performed Symphony (1980); South German Radio, Stuttgart throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. Between (1981); the Rothko Chapel (1981); flutist Ransom 1971 and 1985 the group completed 16 European Wilson (1984); the Fromm Music Foundation for and American tours, playing more than 300 con­ clarinetist Richard Stoltzman (1985); the St. ,Louis certs. In addition to performances by his own Symphony in commemoration of their 75th ensemble, Mr. Reich's music has been performed anniversary (1986); the Brooklyn Academy of by major orchestras worldwide. In October 1987 Music for guitarist Pat Metheny (1987); Betty Michael Tilson Thomas conducted the world pre­ Freeman for the Kronos Quartet (1988); Festival miere of The Four Sections with the San Francisco DJ\utomne in Paris in honor of the French Revolu­ Symphony Orchestra, and Zubin Mehta will tion (1989); the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Paris perform the same work with the New York (1990); and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1991). Philharmonic in January 1988. The world premiere Many important choreographers have used Mr. of the orchestral version of 1ehillim was performed Reich's music for their works. Jerome Robbins by the New York Philharmonic" Zubin Mehta, choreographed Eight Lines set to Mr. Reich's com­ conductor, at the opening concerts of the 1982-83 position of the same name for the New York City subscription season. Mr. Mehta led the Israel Ballet which premiered in early 1985 and Mr. Philharmonic in six performances of the work in Reich has recently collaborated with Laura Dean Israel, October 1986, to mark the 50th anniversary on Impact for her company which premiered dur­ of the orchestra. Major performances have also ing the 1985 NEXT WAVE Festival and for which been given by the Concertgebouw Orchestra Mr. Reich and Ms. Dean received a Bessie Award conducted by Edo de Waart, the Los Angeles in 1986. Among other choreographers using Mr. Philharmonic conducted by Neal Stulberg, the San Reich's work are Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Francisco Symphony conducted by Edo de Waart, Elliot Feld, Alvin Ailey, Lucinda Childs, Maurice the BBC conducted by Peter Eotvos, the St. Louis Bejart, The Paris opera, and Lar Lubovitch. In Symphony conducted by Leonard Slatkin, members 1974, Steve Reich was awarded a grant from the of the Chicago Symphony conducted by Dennis New York State Council on the Arts, and in that Russell Davies, the Southwest German Radio, year was also Artist-in-Residence in Berlin at the Stuttgart, and West German Radio, Cologne, c9n­ invitation of the DAAD. He is the recipient of three ducted by Peter Eotvos, the Ensemble Rockefeller Foundation Grants (1975, 1978 and Intercontemporain and the Netherlands Winds 1981) and two grants from the National Endowment Ensemble. As early as 1971 Phase Patterns was for the Arts (1974 and 1976). In 1978 he was performed in Pierre Boulez' first series of the New awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and in 1981 York Philharmonic Prospective Encounter Concerts he received an award from the Koussevitzy and Four Organs was performed with Michael Foundation. Tilson Thomas, Steve Reich and members of the KENT NAGANO (Conductor) Kent Nagano's Brecker, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Ornette rapid appearance among the front ranks of conduc­ Coleman and Milton Nascimento. In 1979, he was a tors on the international music scene has brought member of Joni Mitchell's stellar backing group for him engagements with major orchestras. and opera her Shadows and Light tour. With keyboardist Lyle houses around the world as well as appointments to Mays, his frequent writing partner in the Pat several major European musical posts. Beginning Metheny Group, he wrote the score'for the nine­ in September 1989 he will be Music Director and part Public Television science documentary Search Chief Conductor of France's renowned Opera de for Solutions, which aired nationwide in April Lyon. He is currently. Principal Guest Conductor of 1979. Pat Metheny has also composed the sound both The Dutch Radio Orchestra and of Pierre