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Steve Reich - Different Trains: America, Before the War

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The Paradita

The piece was written for a string quartet to perform live. David harrington playing the first violin, and john johnmana playing micello. And thou're playing the paradit like crazya. So you got a paradita, locomotive. Man, and the string players kind of got into it. Besides the string quartete and the human voices, you hear train sounds,. particularly trained whistles. Fom new york to oro, new yok. New york. Om, new york. The crud train from new york, one of the fastest trains. It is asin cative of who they are as a photograph. Some would say it

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