London Sinfonietta – ‘Music for 18 Musicians’
On Wednesday 13th February all of the GCSE music students attended a workshop/ concert devoted to Steve Reich’s composition ‘Music for 18 Musicians.’ Reich’s piece is written for a wide range of instruments that includes; a violin, cello, two clarinets and 2 bass clarinets, four voices, pianos (up to four players at any one time), maracas, marimbas and xylophones.
The first half of this event was an interactive exploration in to the musical genre of minimalism and Steve Reich’s ground-breaking minimalist piece. The second half was devoted to a partial performance of ‘Music for 18 Musicians’. The boys were extremely well behaved and appeared to enjoy the hypnotic nature of the piece.
