Steve Reich’s Different Trains

In an episode of Song Exploder, Steve Reich talks about the first movement of his 1988 composition Different Trains. The first movement is all Reich chose to talk about, and if you listen to the podcast, you’ll get some idea why. You can hear that movement, America — Before the War, in the podcast, as performed by the Kronos Quartet.

But you really need to listen to the whole piece. How timely it is. Here is a 2016 performance by the London Contemporary Orchestra. Stay with it.