"We clearly live in a world of secular artists, intellectuals and major media, but interestingly we find religion alive in several significant composers today including Arvo Pärt, Gorecki, Philip Glass, Michael Gordon, Giya Kancheli among others not to mention Igor Stravinsky (or J.S. Bach). Music and religion seem to be intimately tied together. Every society has always had religious music. I am merely part of a long tradition that is still alive."
Steve Reich - (born October 3, 1936)
