Steve Reich Draws Images Of The WTC Attacks 9 / 11 On The Album
Steve Reich, American composer and Pulitzer Prize, has removed the controversial pictures of his new album September 11 memorial.
The cover of the album, "World Trade Center 9 / 11," offers an image of a plane flying into the World Trade Center. When Reich, a pioneer of minimalist classical music, has revealed the cover of last month, was immediately attracted criticism.
The cover of the album, "World Trade Center 9 / 11," offers an image of a plane flying into the World Trade Center. When Reich, a pioneer of minimalist classical music, has revealed the cover of last month, was immediately attracted criticism.
"As a composer, I want people to hear my music without distracting them something," Reich said in a statement. "The current coverage of the" World Trade Center 9 / 11 "is, for many, act as a distraction to listen and if the coverage has changed."
Reich - who was selected photos Masatomo Kuriya Government - consists of three parts score with the Kronos Quartet, to commemorate the terrorist attacks. The recording includes samples of air traffic controllers, emergency care, and women who have maintained a vigil for the dead.
Reich - who was selected photos Masatomo Kuriya Government - consists of three parts score with the Kronos Quartet, to commemorate the terrorist attacks. The recording includes samples of air traffic controllers, emergency care, and women who have maintained a vigil for the dead.
Nonesuch Records had planned to release "WTC 911" 6 September 2011, five days before the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The record company will release the album with a cover modified September 20.
"When the cover was designed, I thought, as did the entire staff of Nonesuch a piece of music with documentary material from an event would be better suited to a documentary photography of this event," Reich said in a statement. "I felt that the picture suggested by our art director has been very strong, and Nonesuch has supported me. All of us felt that someone sees the cover of the feel same way. "
Not everyone does.
Phil Kline, a fellow composer, known as the original, "the first classical album covers I've seen truly vile."
75-year-old Reich, The New Yorker, who lived blocks away from Ground Zero in 2001, expressed shock at the noise.
"It sparked a controversy that quite surprised me," Reich said in an interview published in the September issue of the magazine Limelight. "I could not believe that people do not just say," Well, of course, you know, talking about 9 / 11, so here's a picture of 9 / 11. "
Others were surprised too. "It's a kind of image that have been flooded for weeks, months or even years after the event," Anne Midgette wrote in the Washington Post. "The newspapers and magazines and television screens and hedges have been inundated with images of the towers being beaten, the burning towers, the towers fall rescue with red eyes standing in the rubble dazed of the towers. "Why, 10 years later, this cover different?
Reich said the controversy stirred "mostly people who had never heard the music," noting that the critical response to the performances of the play - as in New York at Carnegie Hall - has been very positive. "For this reaction to the music usurped by the album seemed completely false."
75-year-old Reich, The New Yorker, who lived blocks away from Ground Zero in 2001, expressed shock at the noise.
"It sparked a controversy that quite surprised me," Reich said in an interview published in the September issue of the magazine Limelight. "I could not believe that people do not just say," Well, of course, you know, talking about 9 / 11, so here's a picture of 9 / 11. "
Others were surprised too. "It's a kind of image that have been flooded for weeks, months or even years after the event," Anne Midgette wrote in the Washington Post. "The newspapers and magazines and television screens and hedges have been inundated with images of the towers being beaten, the burning towers, the towers fall rescue with red eyes standing in the rubble dazed of the towers. "Why, 10 years later, this cover different?
Reich said the controversy stirred "mostly people who had never heard the music," noting that the critical response to the performances of the play - as in New York at Carnegie Hall - has been very positive. "For this reaction to the music usurped by the album seemed completely false."
It is not the first time Pioneer has a minimalist approach, the issue of terrorism in his music. Reich's 2006 album, "Daniel Variations" is a tribute to Daniel Pearl, an American journalist who was lamilaiset head in 2002.
This is not the first time a musical has faced controversy 9 / 11 coverage. The coup, an Oakland rap group based in California, was forced to remove album art - although it was designed for several months before the September 11 attacks - like the terrifying attacks on the World Trade Center.
And a synth-pop duo called I Am the World Trade Center was intimidated to change his name to I Am World shortly after the attacks of September 11th. They eventually changed their name back.
"I want to thank Nonesuch backup of my original coverage decision," said Reich "And to back up my decision to move now to focus on belonging -. In the music."
This is not the first time a musical has faced controversy 9 / 11 coverage. The coup, an Oakland rap group based in California, was forced to remove album art - although it was designed for several months before the September 11 attacks - like the terrifying attacks on the World Trade Center.
And a synth-pop duo called I Am the World Trade Center was intimidated to change his name to I Am World shortly after the attacks of September 11th. They eventually changed their name back.
"I want to thank Nonesuch backup of my original coverage decision," said Reich "And to back up my decision to move now to focus on belonging -. In the music."
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