Steve Reich: Music for Mallet Instruments at The Glasshouse
Steve Reich’s Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ comes to The Glasshouse Gateshead on 4 October 2026.
Steve Reich’s Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ comes to The Glasshouse in Gateshead on Sunday 4 October 2026 as part of the final day of the Steve Reich at 90 festival weekend. The piece brings percussion, voices and electric organ together in a tightly layered texture where sustained tones and repeating patterns gradually change against one another.
The work sits at an important point in Reich’s development because it combines the clarity of his percussion writing with longer vocal and organ tones. That contrast creates a more suspended sound than some of the harder-driving pieces elsewhere in the weekend.
Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ
Hearing the piece alongside other Reich works across the same weekend should make those differences especially clear. The Glasshouse programme allows audiences to move between small-scale percussion, chamber writing and much larger ensemble music without losing the compositional thread linking them together.
Event details
- Date: Sunday 4 October 2026
- Venue: The Glasshouse International Centre for Music, Gateshead
Current information is available through The Glasshouse’s official event page.
