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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concert 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season - Prom 37 - Steve Reich
Performance Date13 August 2014
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time22:15
ChoirsBBC Singers
ConductorsDavid Hill
Set List'It's Gonna Rain' S Reich,
'The Desert Music', S Reich
Performance NotesThe 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 MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2014/53),
Programme (RAHE/1/2014/88),
Posters (RAHE/2/2014/41),
Proms Mini-Guide
Ticket Prices£5.00-£18.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2014/88BBC Proms 2014 - Prom 3713 August 2014
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work9894BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2014 - One Hundred and Twentieth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/835Hill; David (1957-); British choral conductor, organist
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