On Steve Reich’s Different Trains

Explore the story behind Steve Reich’s Different Trains. The groundbreaking work, written for Kronos Quartet and first recorded on Nonesuch, is available at The New York Times declared Different Trains “a work of such originality that ’breakthrough’ seems the only possible description.“ Pitchfork called it a “late-career masterpiece“ and placed the album among the 200 Best of the 1980s. Video by Robert Edridge-Waks Excerpts from Steve Reich interview courtesy Boosey & Hawkes,