Redevelopment of Norris University Center’s East Lawn to begin this summer
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Steve Reich, winner of Northwestern University’s Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition, attended music rehearsals and discussions with Bienen School of Music students and faculty and a performance of his work when he visited the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music Feb. 7 to 9. Called “our greatest living composer” by The New York Times, Reich embraces aspects of Western classical music as well as the structures, harmonies and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz, in his work.
