I grew up listening to this piece. My mom would play it often at home and I've known about it since I was probably the age of 10. I was very surprised that Pat talked about it in class because I never thought of it as the "first minimal music composition". I knew the theme was repeated over and over by different instruments but I never researched or read anything about its origins.
Wikipedia has an interesting subsection on the structure of the song where it shows how the composition is played and the order of instruments.
I truly enjoy listening to this song especially how it slowly builds up from a single snare to an epic finale involving the whole orchestra.
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