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STEVE REICH AND MUSICIANS

At: the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music,

Wednesday night

LENOX -- The 1995 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music opened with a retrospective of music that is no longer quite contemporary by a composer who certainly is, Steve Reich.

For many years, the Tanglewood new-music festival, the most prestigious in America, was underwritten by the late wine importer Paul Fromm. At one point Fromm withdrew his support because he became convinced that the festival was overlooking the popular and much-discussed movement of minimalism. Now the Fromm Foundation annually sponsors a concert by a prominent new-music group during the festival, and the wheel ...

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