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Steve Reich's Different Trains: Minimalism and Memory

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Tom explores Steve Reich’s 1988 work Different Trains, its use of sampling and speech melodies, and its evocation of the Holocaust. Our witness is the author and journalist Jonathan Freedland.

Producer: Ruth Thomson

Published on Sunday, 6th November 2022.

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