Steve Reich: The Cave

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Music Review: Reich's THE CAVE defines....
Rating: 5 Stars

As a child, I loved the fading in and out of long distance a m stations. It was the groundwork for the textural riches of Steve Reich's The Cave as well as for much more of the contempary classics I find important. I love the reinvention of sound that happens here. I love also the intelligent musing to endless questions....Who is Abraham..Who is Sarah...Who is Hagar?

From answers like " I have no idea who Abraham is or what he represents." to "Abraham Lincoln High about as far as I trace Abraham." to Carl Sagan's "I think of Abraham like this: It's 21 hundred B.C. or thereabouts. He's living in the 3rd dynasty of UR. It's a polytheistic society. The chief god is "Nana," who's the moon god. Abraham grows up, he a city kid. His father makes idols, he crafts idols.", the staccato of the music, the voices, and the answers themselves...lead us to our question, " Who is Abraham?" And we find, philosophically, we all have many ways to travel the inevitable route: question. Reich's music is as mysterious as the questions, the history of the questions. He brings together...among others, Christian, Jew, and Muslim to consider the highway to his own being, his own thought.

The music is sharp and enticing, as challenging to the spirit as it is refreshing, and openly cleansing.

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