Drumming

(Compare that to another work with a cult following, Steve Reich's admittedly more populist "Drumming," which has been recorded three times and given more than 340 performances since its completion in 1971.)

Both Challenging and Cool 2009

"If you were to listen to 'Double Sextet' and then go back to 'You Are Variations' [2004], and put both of those next to 'Drumming' [1970], you probably wouldn't be sure it was the same composer.

Julia Moulden: Sounds of Summer From a Master Composer 2010

"If you were to listen to 'Double Sextet' and then go back to 'You Are Variations' [2004], and put both of those next to 'Drumming' [1970], you probably wouldn't be sure it was the same composer.

Julia Moulden: Sounds of Summer From a Master Composer 2010

Among these were “Swinging the Arms, and all other awkward gestures,” “Drumming with feet or hands in Company,” “All actions that have the most remote tendency to Indelicacy,” “All instances of that ill-judged Familiarity, which breeds contempt,” and “every thing which may be called Sluttish or Slovenly.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Too often, minimalist compositions elide emotion in favor of emphasizing process see classics like "Drumming" and "Music With Changing Parts", but Mr. Bryars's piece, some 40 years after its premiere, remains a profoundly moving work.

Sinking Into the Sonic Ocean Andy Beta 2011

Drumming up irrational fears is nothing new for the GOP.

DCCC slams Shadegg for suggesting Bloomberg's daughter will be kidnapped 2009

Daylight grinned as he answered, "Drumming up trade for a free rural delivery route."

Chapter IX 2010

Drumming has abruptly stopped, dancers are holding at rest positions, doctor Mellow is stepping forward.

Divided We Beg J. Mykell Collinz 2011

Drumming—pounding rhythms on plastic buckets, wooden drums and metal pots—rang out from the center of the Capitol rotunda off and on for hours.

In Madison, Closed Capitol Still Echoes With Protest Ilan Brat 2011

Drumming up that financing would be hard in countries such as Germany and Finland, he said.

Greece Aid Is Under Threat, Europe Finance Chief Says Frances Robinson 2011