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You'll also find interesting his earliest surviving piece, the hilarious
America ("My Country Tis of Thee") Variations
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Which really ought to be on the same CD as Partch's *Yankee Doodle*.
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I heard the Reich "Desert Music" at its New York premiere, under Tilson
Thomas. Reich apparently doesn't understand quantity in verse, he fails to
master the orchestral and choral forces, and the music is amateurish.
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True enough, alas.
A decline from *It's Gonna Rain*.
CW
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