[D66] Different Trains

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Different Trains
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Different Trains is a three-movement piece for string quartet and tape
written by Steve Reich in 1988. Its original release was performed by
the Kronos Quartet and won a Grammy Award in 1989 for Best Contemporary
Classical Composition.

Background

During World War II, Reich made train journeys between New York and Los
Angeles to visit his parents, who had separated. Years later, he
pondered the fact that, as a Jew, had he been in Europe instead of the
United States at that time, he might have been travelling in Holocaust
trains.

Steve Reich's earlier work had frequently used tape, looped and played
back at different speeds. However, Different Trains was a novel
experiment, using recorded speech as a source for melodies.