Steve Reich - The Desert Music (LP)

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Media:  Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve:  Very Good Plus (VG+)

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Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary, Post-Modern

General notes about this release (please note: our version may differ a little. see the comments above):

Gatefold cover with printed inner sleeve with French and German translations.

This album is a setting of poetry by William Carlos Williams.

"Steve Reich and musicians with chorus and members of The Brooklyn Philharmonic"

"The Desert Music" was co-commissioned by the West German Radio, Cologne and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The world premiere was in Cologne March 17, 1984 and the American premiere was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House October 25, 26 & 27, 1984 as part of the 1984 Next Wave Festival. Generous support for this recording is gratefully acknowledged from: The Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Lila Acheson Wallace Fund, Mrs. Betty Freeman, National Endowment for the Arts, The Forbes Foundation, Mrs. F. Henry Berlin, New York State Council on the Arts, Paul Fromm, Ruth Cummings, The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation.

Recorded October 29 and 30, 1984, at RCA Studio A, New York City.

Special thanks to Harvey Lichtenstein, Karen Hopkins, Michael Feldman and Wolfgang Becker.
Michael Tilson Thomas appears courtesy of CBS Masterworks.

The score of The Desert Music is available from Boosey & Hawkes (Hendon Music).
Excerpts from:
'Theocritus: Idyl I, The Orchestra', and 'Asphodel, That Greeny Flower' from 'Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems' by William Carlos Williams
(Copyright © 1954, 1955, 1962 by William Carlos Williams); used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

DMM® Direct Metal Mastering ®TELDEC (sticker on front cover).

[from labels:
Score distributed by: Hendon Music/Boosey & Hawkes
Published by Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.
℗ 1985 Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
© 1984 Reich Music Publications BMI/AMRA
Made in Germany by WEA Musik GmbH [logo A Warner Communications Company

[from back cover:
℗ 1985 Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.
© 1985 Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records, A Division of Warner Communications Inc., [logo
Manufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf. a Warner Communications Company

Runouts are stamped except etched "CS-B-III".

 

. The Desert Music

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 0 7559-79101-1Barcode 075597910117Price Code ZPrice Code WE 381Label Code LC 0286Rights Society GEMA/BIEMRights Society BMI/AMRAMatrix / Runout WEA DMM A C - 979 101 - 1A CS-B-IIIMatrix / Runout [oval sign] WEA DMM A C - 979 101 - 1B Cs-B-III

 

Recorded At RCA Studio APublished By Hendon MusicPublished By Boosey & HawkesPublished By Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers LtdPhonographic Copyright (p) Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch RecordsCopyright (c) Reich Music PublicationsMade By WEA Musik GmbHRecord Company Warner CommunicationsCopyright (c) Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch RecordsPhonographic Copyright (p) WEA International Inc.Manufactured By Record Service GmbHMastered At Teldec-Studio, BerlinData provided by Discogs
Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Barcode 0 7559-79101-1
Barcode 075597910117
Price Code Z
Price Code WE 381
Label Code LC 0286
Rights Society GEMA/BIEM
Rights Society BMI/AMRA
Matrix / Runout WEA DMM A C - 979 101 - 1A CS-B-III
Matrix / Runout [oval sign] WEA DMM A C - 979 101 - 1B Cs-B-III

 

Recorded At RCA Studio A
Published By Hendon Music
Published By Boosey & Hawkes
Published By Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Phonographic Copyright (p) Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
Copyright (c) Reich Music Publications
Made By WEA Musik GmbH
Record Company Warner Communications
Copyright (c) Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
Phonographic Copyright (p) WEA International Inc.
Manufactured By Record Service GmbH
Mastered At Teldec-Studio, Berlin

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