Record

Performance Title	BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 37 - Steve Reich
Performance Date	13 August 2014
Performance Day	Wednesday
Performance Time	22:15
Choirs	BBC Singers
Conductors	David Hill
Set List	'It's Gonna Rain' S Reich, 'The Desert Music', S Reich
Performance Notes	The after-hours late-night atmosphere is a fitting backdrop to the pulsing rhythmic repetitions of Minimalism's founding father, Steve Reich. Relive the experimentation of It's Gonna Rain the tape piece that first put Reich on the map back in 1965 its hypnotic layers of spoken sound transforming a street preacher into a strange, disembodied instrument. The Desert Music twitches and throbs with life, offering a meditation on fragments of William Carlos Williams's poetry. The BBC Singers are joined by contemporary specialists the Endymion ensemble. There was no interval. The event was broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Related Archival Material	Proms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53), Programme (RAHE/1/2014/88), Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41), Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices	£5.00-£18.00
URL	https://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/asZa92axd0dX

Catalogue

Reference Number	Title	Date
RAHE/1/2014/88	BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 37	13 August 2014

Work

Ref No	Title	No of Performances
Work9894	BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season	76

Performers

Code	Name of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31	Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/958	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/835	Hill; David (1957-); British choral conductor, organist

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