{"product_id":"steve-reich-the-desert-music-lp-very-good-plus-vg","title":"Steve Reich - The Desert Music (LP) (Very Good Plus (VG+))","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMedia Condition: \u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eSleeve Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good Plus (VG+)\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eCountry:    \u003c\/strong\u003eEurope \u003cstrong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\r\nReleased:  \u003c\/strong\u003e1985\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eDiscog's Release ID: \u003c\/strong\u003e1496864\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:       \u003c\/strong\u003eClassical\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cstrong\u003eStyle:         \u003c\/strong\u003eContemporary, Post-Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eComments:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\nStrong VG+, Pristine wax but for some very minor, very light surface markings - Fantastic outer sleeve, slight bending of the corners from minor ring wear, but no corner creasing, some micro creasing along the spine - Ultrasonically cleaned \u003cbr\u003e\r\n \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNotes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGatefold cover with printed inner sleeve with French and German translations.\n\nThis album is a setting of poetry by William Carlos Williams.\n\n\"Steve Reich and musicians with chorus and members of The Brooklyn Philharmonic\"\n\n\"The Desert Music\" was co-commissioned by the West German Radio, Cologne and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The world premiere was in Cologne March 17, 1984 and the American premiere was at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House October 25, 26 \u0026amp; 27, 1984 as part of the 1984 Next Wave Festival. Generous support for this recording is gratefully acknowledged from: The Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Centers, The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Lila Acheson Wallace Fund, Mrs. Betty Freeman, National Endowment for the Arts, The Forbes Foundation, Mrs. F. Henry Berlin, New York State Council on the Arts, Paul Fromm, Ruth Cummings, The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation.\n\nRecorded October 29 and 30, 1984, at RCA Studio A, New York City.\n\nSpecial thanks to Harvey Lichtenstein, Karen Hopkins, Michael Feldman and Wolfgang Becker.\nMichael Tilson Thomas appears courtesy of CBS Masterworks.\n\nThe score of The Desert Music is available from Boosey \u0026amp; Hawkes (Hendon Music).\nExcerpts from:\n'Theocritus: Idyl I, The Orchestra', and 'Asphodel, That Greeny Flower' from 'Pictures from Breughel and Other Poems' by William Carlos Williams\n(Copyright © 1954, 1955, 1962 by William Carlos Williams); used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.\n\nDMM® Direct Metal Mastering ®TELDEC (sticker on front cover).\n\n[from labels:\nScore distributed by: Hendon Music\/Boosey \u0026amp; Hawkes\nPublished by Boosey \u0026amp; Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.\n℗ 1985 Elektra\/Asylum\/Nonesuch Records\n© 1984 Reich Music Publications BMI\/AMRA\nMade in Germany by WEA Musik GmbH [logo A Warner Communications Company\n\n[from back cover:\n℗ 1985 Elektra\/Asylum\/Nonesuch Records for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States.\n© 1985 Elektra\/Asylum\/Nonesuch Records, A Division of Warner Communications Inc., [logo\nManufactured in Germany by Record Service GmbH, Alsdorf. a Warner Communications Company\n\nRunouts are stamped except etched \"CS-B-III\".\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e.  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