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Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich is an American composer who is one of the pioneering composers of minimal music along with La Monte Young, Terry... Riley, and Philip Glass. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns , and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts . These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains. Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups.
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Sofia Carmina Coppola is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actress. In 2003 she received the Academy Award for Best Original... Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. In 2010, with Somewhere, she became the first American woman to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola and director Francis Ford Coppola , granddaughter of the composer Carmine Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola, niece of her father's siblings August Coppola and Talia Shire, and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine. When she was just 14 years old, her brother Gian-Carlo was killed in a boating accident. She attended high school at St. Helena High School and graduated class of 1990.
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