Four Musical Minimalists LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass

"Like many writers on minimal music, Potter is strangely unwilling to address its limitations, and to discuss how they might affect our overall estimation of its value. He does not go as far as one recent commentator, who compared Riley, Glass and Reich with Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. But, in its very neutrality, FOUR MUSICAL MINIMALISTS monumentalizes its subjects, and by equating the music's technique with its achieved effect, tries to place it beyond criticism. Keith Potter has done much in this book to elucidate minimalism's technical armoury, and to clarify the terms of the discussion; what we need now is a real critical assessment of the music.Potter, Keith is the author of 'Four Musical Minimalists LA Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass' with ISBN 9780521482509 and ISBN 052148250X.