Composer Steve Reich turned 80 years old last week, an occasion that is being celebrated in concerts across the globe, including a week of events with the San Francisco Symphony last month and next month's first of several concerts this season at Carnegie Hall, where holds the 2016–17 Debs Composer's Chair. NPR marked the milestone with a feature on Weekend Edition Sunday yesterday, in which Anastasia Tsioulcas spoke with the composer and examines works that span his career: WTC 9/11, Tehillim, Come Out, Different Trains, and Drumming.

"When he began, Reich was an outsider," Tsioulcas concludes. "Now his work is embraced by temples of high culture around the world."

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