Steve Reich at 90: A Birthday Celebration

Saturday, October 24, 7:30pm New Music Steve Reich at 90 A Birthday Celebration Bang on a Can All-Stars Ensemble Signal Brad Lubman, conductor Program: Steve Reich/Electric Counterpoint Double Sextet In All Your Ways (West Coast Premiere, Cal Performances Co-commission) More than 20 virtuosic Reich specialists join forces in celebration of Steve Reich’s 90th birthday in a program of seminal, award-winning works and a new commission. New York’s Bang on a Can All-Stars is joined by next-generation Ensemble Signal—among the foremost interpreters of Reich’s music and close Reich collaborators—for a one-night mini-festival of Reich classics that includes the Pulitzer-winning Double Sextet, alongside In All Your Ways heard here in its West Coast premiere. Through Cal Performances’ Golden Bear Circle program, UC Berkeley students are eligible to purchase a limited number of $10 tickets for this evening’s performances. Information about this and more student events and discounts is available at calperformances.org/ucb-students.