{"id":5136,"date":"2011-08-09T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2011-08-09T21:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T20:35:11","slug":"the-mystery-of-steve-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2011\/08\/the-mystery-of-steve-reich.html","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Steve Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t I get excited about tomorrow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/proms\/whats-on\/2011\/august-10\/41\">Steve Reich Prom<\/a>? It&#8217;s not his Boring New Stuff, it&#8217;s his Cool Old Stuff, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. The Man Himself will be there, playing, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. I&#8217;ve never heard this stuff played live before, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. I enjoy listening to his records, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. I&#8217;ve missed earlier opportunities to hear him live, and yet&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve become jaded with his Cool Old Stuff. Over 20 years I&#8217;ve had chances to hear his early masterpieces live, and every time I&#8217;ve decided not to bother. I&#8217;ll jump at the chance to hear &#8211; oh, random example &#8211; Philip Glass&#8217; old stuff in concert, but for some reason Steve Reich&#8217;s music seems to me perfectly adequate as a recording, with nothing additional to be gained from hearing it played live. I have heard live performances of his music, ranging from ordinary to thrilling, yet none of these experiences have changed my opinion in all this time. Why is this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why can&#8217;t I get excited about tomorrow&#8217;s Steve Reich Prom? It&#8217;s not his Boring New Stuff, it&#8217;s his Cool Old Stuff, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. The Man Himself will be there, playing, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. I&#8217;ve never heard this stuff played live before, and yet I&#8217;m not excited. I enjoy listening to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5137,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}