The Fundació Joan Miró presents `Different Trains`, a video installation by Beatriz Caravaggio
(Artdaily.org)

In 1988 Steve Reich composed Different Trains, an innovative work in three movements for string quartet and pre-recorded tape. This autobiographical piece evokes, in the first movement, the train journeys from New York to Los Angeles that the composer made between 1939 and 1942 to visit the homes of his divorced parents. In the second movement, the remembrance of these journeys as a romantic childhood adventure is overlaid by a contrafactual scenario exploring the likely fate of a Jew like him in the Europe of the time: the trains would have been one-way vehicles of deportation to the Nazi extermination camps. The final movement refers to the end of the war period and the rapid process of social transformation, as symbolized by the new trains, but also refers to the survivors’ inability to leave behind the doubts, anxieties and memories of the