Steve Reich - Different Trains: America, Before the War

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  You're listening to Song Exploder,

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  where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

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  I'm Rishikesh Hirway.

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  Steve Reich is a composer who was one of the pioneers of minimalism.

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  He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for music,

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  and the New York Times called him America's greatest living composer.

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  I had the incredible honor of getting to speak to Steve Reich about his piece,

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  Different Trains, which was written for string quartet and pre-recorded performance tape.

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  Different Trains was first performed in 1988 by the Kronos Quartet.

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  They released a recording of it in 1989,

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  which won the Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition.

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  Different Trains is a piece about World War II and the Holocaust.

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  It's made up of three movements.

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  One, America Before the War.

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  Two, Europe during the war, and three after the war.

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  For this episode, Steve Reich breaks down the first movement,

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  which was inspired by his own childhood experiences.

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  My name is Steve Reich.

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  The first inklings of different trains happened with an offer from the Kronos Quartet to write them a piece.

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  The Kronos Quartet is a string quartet started in the early 70s by David Harrington and other musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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