Having tried many times, I just don't hear anything worth a tin sh!t amongst the increasingly large body of minimalist works. Beyond being an interesting test of the performer's endurance, it often just sounds like new age music or bad progressive rock. Glass is by far the worst. I'll grant that he's found a very distinctive sound, but the limits of that sound make his creativity hit the ceiling very quickly. Reich is far better at understanding the instruments he writes for, but his music still sounds like lifeless academic drek composed by post-modern robots to usher in a bleak future. As well, I'm thoroughly skeptical towards 'holy minimalist' composers like Part, Gorecki, and Vasks, who earlier in their lives showed far greater creative potential than they've realized over the years, commercial success aside. As with Reich, their recent works just sound like rehashed Bartok ideas that have been stripped of their context and served up with greasy dollops of 'poignant emotion', to use two words that 95% of their positive reviewers like to spew recklessly. As a side note, I absolutely despise the way that these works are thrust upon people as the outer appearance of current East European music. Since I'm not a yoga instructor, a documentary maker, or an R2-D2, I see little value in these works.
Topic: Minimalism!