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Steve Reich remains one of the most important figures in 20th century music. Though he studied at the prestigious arts institutions Julliard and Mills College, by the mid-1960s Reich set about dismantling the very orthodoxy that he had been trained in. Forming a new musical language based on repetitive processes, Reich became established as part of the so-called « Big Four » of New York minimalists (along with La Monte Young, Terry Riley and Philip Glass). Reich‘s influence can easily be seen today in both the classical world and contemporary pop music.
