Yes ~~ thank you. Managed to track down another recording. Yes, it is an interesting work ~~ a 'concept' work, as they call them, as I said. The use of the voices reiterating phrases under the string quartets phrasing is interesting, and Reich's use of ostinato, which seems to be something he makes a sort of leitmotif or trade-mark of his insofar as I can see [or hear], is obviously appropriate for the 'trains' motif in this work; far more so than the same technique in '18 Instruments' which I found so barren and unsatisfying. I can now see, for which many thanks, that he is an interesting artist, which the other work [tho the one Mr Goodall includes in his "ten most important pieces of all time" list cited above] gave me no inkling of whatever. I don't think he is ever going to be a favourite composer of mine, or one whose work I shall seek out much further. But I will admit I was clearly over-dismissive on insufficient evidence ~~ for which insight, and expansion of my musical experience and horizons, I remain greatly in Gloria J's debt.

So, Gloria, many thanks again. My conscience tells me that I must return now & play the whole work [you will gather from the timings of these posts that thus far I have only dipped and sampled, though I have found some of each of the work's three parts to listen to] ~~

Laters!

Mebbe!

~M~