Editing Steve Reich (section)

== Legacy ==
The American composer and critic [[Kyle Gann]] has said that Reich "may&nbsp;... be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-07-13/music/grand-old-youngster |last=Gann |first=Kyle |author-link=Kyle Gann |title=Grand Old Youngster |work=[[The Village Voice]] |date=July 13, 1999 |access-date=September 27, 2008 |archive-date=January 16, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116215209/http://www.villagevoice.com/1999-07-13/music/grand-old-youngster |url-status=dead }}</ref> Writing in ''[[The Guardian]]'', music critic Andrew Clements has suggested that Reich is one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history".<ref name=Clements2013>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vct73 |title=Radio 3 Programmes – Composer of the Week, Steve Reich (b. 1936), Episode 1 |publisher=BBC |date=October 25, 2010 |access-date=October 16, 2011}}</ref> 

Reich's style of composition has influenced many other composers and musical groups, including [[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]], [[Michael Nyman]], [[Aphex Twin]], [[Björk]], [[Sonic Youth]], [[American Football (band)|American Football]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kliebhan |first=TJ |date=February 2, 2016 |title=Never Meant: The Complete Oral History of American Football |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/never-meant-the-complete-oral-history-of-american-football/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231105094550/https://www.vice.com/en/article/rkqypm/never-meant-the-complete-oral-history-of-american-football |archive-date=November 5, 2023 |access-date=November 8, 2023 |website=[[Vice Media | Vice]] |quote=Freshman year, I was turned on to a lot of the bands that would influence our sound: [[Nick Drake]], [[Red House Painters]], [[Elliott Smith]], [[Codeine (band)|Codeine]], [[the Sea and Cake]], [[The Smiths]]/[[Morrissey]], [[Slowdive]], [[My Bloody Valentine (band) | My Bloody Valentine]], [[Can (band) | Can]], Steve Reich, etc.}}</ref> [[Stereolab]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Mark |date=November 5, 1999 |title=Stereolab's Latest Experiment |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/11/05/stereolabs-latest-experiment/3750c74e-ee0b-4248-960e-0a11c52a81db/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112114428/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1999/11/05/stereolabs-latest-experiment/3750c74e-ee0b-4248-960e-0a11c52a81db/ |archive-date=January 12, 2021 |access-date=April 19, 2025 |website=[[The Washington Post]] |quote=There's been a Steve Reich influence--and [[Philip Glass]] and people like that--on a lot of our records.}}</ref> [[King Crimson]], [[Autechre]], [[Matmos]], [[Michael Hedges]], [[Brian Eno]], [[the Residents]], [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]], the composers associated with the [[Bang on a Can]] festival (including [[David Lang (composer)|David Lang]], [[Michael Gordon (composer)|Michael Gordon]], and [[Julia Wolfe]]), [[Sufjan Stevens]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/66792 |last=Wise |first=Brian |title=Steve Reich @ 70 on WNYC |year=2006 |publisher=[[WNYC]]}} Retrieved September 27, 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://dn.sapo.pt/2006/11/12/artes/o_passado_presente_steve_reich_porto.html |author=Joana de Belém |title=O passado e o presente de Steve Reich no Porto |date=November 12, 2006 |work=[[Diário de Notícias]] |language=pt |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115140818/http://dn.sapo.pt/2006/11/12/artes/o_passado_presente_steve_reich_porto.html |archive-date=January 15, 2009 }} Retrieved September 27, 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ft.com/content/02edd1fa-8e18-4483-ba24-7559d329a5a1 |last=Grimes |first=Christopher |title=Composer Steve Reich: 'What do I want? I want the music to be played' |year=2024 |publisher=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref> Matthew Healy of [[the 1975]],<ref>{{cite web |title=The 1975's Matty Healy in conversation with Steve Reich |url=https://theface.com/audio/matty-healy-the-1975-steve-reich-interview-podcast|website=[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]|date=May 5, 2020 |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref> [[Tortoise (band)|Tortoise]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/tortoise/a-lazarus-taxon.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060917055800/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/tortoise/a-lazarus-taxon.htm |archive-date=September 17, 2006 |last=Hutlock |first=Todd |title=Tortoise&nbsp;– A Lazarus Taxon |work=[[Stylus Magazine]] |date=September 1, 2006}} Retrieved September 27, 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/230069/review/5941937/tnt |last=Ratliff |first=Ben|author-link=Ben Ratliff|title=TNT : Tortoise : Review |date=March 23, 1998 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|access-date=September 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114082122/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/230069/review/5941937/tnt |archive-date=January 14, 2009 |url-status=dead }} Retrieved September 27, 2008.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com/2008_season/performers/tortoise_illinois |title=Performers: Tortoise (Illinois) |year=2008 |publisher=Guelph Jazz Festival |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915235426/http://www.guelphjazzfestival.com/2008_season/performers/tortoise_illinois |archive-date=September 15, 2008  }} Retrieved September 27, 2008.</ref> [[The Mercury Program]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2001-05-10/music/we-have-liftoff |last=Stratton |first=Jeff |title=We Have Liftoff |work=[[Broward-Palm Beach New Times]] |date=May 10, 2001 |access-date=September 27, 2008 |archive-date=October 21, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091021130525/http://www.browardpalmbeach.com/2001-05-10/music/we-have-liftoff/ |url-status=dead }} Retrieved September 27, 2008.</ref> [[JG Thirlwell]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Damiani |first=Matteo |date=April 18, 2024 |title=The Radical Sounds of JG Thirlwell, Interview |url=https://retrofuturista.com/jg-thirlwell-interview/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250328005133/https://retrofuturista.com/jg-thirlwell-interview/ |archive-date=March 28, 2025 |access-date=April 18, 2025 |website=RetroFuturista |quote=I drew inspiration from a diverse array of sources. I was as influenced by [[Ennio Morricone]] and [[James Brown]] as I was by Steve Reich and [[The Pop Group]].}}</ref> and [[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]] (who titled an unreleased song "Steve Reich").<ref>{{cite web|url=http://brainwashed.com/godspeed/music.html |title=sad |publisher=Brainwashed.com |access-date=October 16, 2011}}</ref>

John Adams commented, "He didn't reinvent the wheel so much as he showed us a new way to ride."<ref>[[John Adams (composer)|John Adams]]: "...For him, pulsation and tonality were not just cultural artifacts. They were the lifeblood of the musical experience, natural laws. It was his triumph to find a way to embrace these fundamental principles and still create a music that felt genuine and new. He didn't reinvent the wheel so much as he showed us a new way to ride." See for instance the articles section of the {{cite web|url=http://www.stevereich.com/|title=Steve Reich Website|access-date=January 31, 2010}}</ref> He has also influenced visual artists such as [[Bruce Nauman]], and many notable choreographers have made dances to his music, [[Eliot Feld]], [[Jiří Kylián]], [[Douglas Lee (choreographer)|Douglas Lee]] and [[Jerome Robbins]] among others; he has expressed particular admiration of [[Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker]]'s work set to his pieces.

In featuring a sample of Reich's ''[[Electric Counterpoint]]'' (1987) in the 1990 track ''[[Little Fluffy Clouds]]'' the British [[ambient techno]] act [[the Orb]] exposed a new generation of listeners to his music.<ref name=Emmerson>[[Simon Emmerson (composer)|Emmerson, S.]] (2007), ''Music, Electronic Media, and Culture'', Ashgate, Adlershot, p. 68.</ref> In 1999 the album ''[[Reich Remixed]]'' featured [[remix]]es of a number of Reich's works by various electronic dance-music producers, such as [[DJ Spooky]], [[Kurtis Mantronik]], [[Ken Ishii]], and [[Coldcut]] among others.<ref name=Emmerson/><ref>[http://www.discogs.com/release/27570 Reich Remixed:] album track listing at www.discogs.com</ref>

Reich's ''[[Cello Counterpoint]]'' (2003) was the inspiration for a series of commissions for solo cello with pre-recorded cellos made by [[Ashley Bathgate]] in 2017 including new works by [[Emily Cooley]] and [[Alex Weiser]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=da Fonseca-Wollheim|first1=Corinna|title=Cellist in an Echo Chamber, Echo Chamber|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/arts/music/cellist-in-an-echo-chamber-echo-chamber.html?_r=0|access-date=May 12, 2018|work=The New York Times|date=June 22, 2017}}</ref>

Reich often cites [[Pérotin]], [[Johann Sebastian Bach|J. S. Bach]], [[Claude Debussy|Debussy]], [[Béla Bartók|Bartók]], and [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]] as composers whom he admires and who greatly influenced him when he was young.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stevereich.com/anne-teresa-de-keersmaeker/ |title=Questions from Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Answers from |date=May 26, 2008 |publisher=Steve Reich |access-date=February 25, 2023}}</ref> Jazz is a major part of the formation of Reich's musical style, and two of the earliest influences on his work were vocalists [[Ella Fitzgerald]] and [[Alfred Deller]], whose emphasis on the artistic capabilities of the voice alone with little vibrato or other alteration was an inspiration to his earliest works. [[John Coltrane]]'s style, which Reich has described as "playing a lot of notes to very few harmonies", also had an impact; of particular interest was the album ''[[Africa/Brass]]'', which "was basically a half-an-hour in E".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Steve Reich |url=https://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/lectures/steve-reich-the-music-maker |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=www.redbullmusicacademy.com |language=en}}</ref> Reich's influence from jazz includes its roots, also, from the West African music he studied in his readings and visit to Ghana. Other important influences are [[Kenny Clarke]] and [[Miles Davis]], and visual artist friends such as [[Sol LeWitt]] and [[Richard Serra]]. Reich has also stated that he admires the music of the band [[Radiohead]], which led to his composition ''Radio Rewrite''.<ref>{{cite news |first=Alexis |last=Petridis |author-link=Alexis Petridis |title=Steve Reich on Schoenberg, Coltrane and Radiohead |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/mar/01/steve-reich-schoenberg-coltrane-radiohead |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=February 28, 2013 |access-date=March 1, 2013 }}</ref>