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Johnny Greenwood playing guitar

Jonny Greenwood performs Reich with the Hallé

Manchester Classical

Friday 27 June 2025 8.00pm

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Auditorium Doors: TBC
Concert Start: 8.00pm
Finish: 9.00pm

Timings will be updated closer to the concert date. Please check the website on the afternoon of the performance for up-to-date information. All timings are approximate and are subject to change.​

Jonny Greenwood performs Reich with the Hallé

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Colin Currie conductor
Jonny Greenwood bass guitar

Steve Reich Clapping Music | Runner | Pulse | Variations for Vibes, Piano and Strings

Following on from its highly acclaimed 2024 festival celebrating the works of Steve Reich, the Hallé is once again joined by conductor and percussionist Colin Currie and Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood for a concert of some of Reich’s most well-known works.

Reich’s iconic Clapping Music, its instrument just human hands, starts this unmissable event. Reich’s ballet Runner is an intense, non-stop 16 minute composition for strings, piano, wind and percussion, which the New York Times described as ‘a calmly luminous orchestral piece.’ Scored for winds, strings, piano and electric bass, the San Francisco Chronicle said of Pulse, ‘…this 15-minute work sounds unlike almost anything else in Reich’s catalog. Pulse is built around long, tenderly arching melodies and spacious harmonies…’ Beginning its life as a commission for the London Sinfonietta,Variations for Vibes, Piano and Stringsplays with irregular accents to produce an upbeat, positive harmonic feeling throughout.

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