Different Trains

Steve Reich (1936–): Different Trains

1. Europe, Before the War
2. Europe, During the War
3. After the War

Participants

• Anna Rødevand and Lotte Hellstrøm Hestad (violin)
• Nanna Ikutomi Sørli (viola)
  
• Sophia Hugo Cabo (cello)

During World War II, Reich made train journeys between New York and Los Angeles to visit his parents, who had separated. Years later, he pondered that, as a Jew, had he been in Europe instead of the United States at that time, he might have been travelling in Holocaust trains.

"While the trips were exciting and romantic at the time, I now look back and think, if I had been in Europe during this period, as a Jew I would have had to ride very different trains", Reich writes.