It's no secret that many listeners have trouble warming up to contemporary classical music. But a few composers have cultivated styles more accessible for the average listener. Now in his 70s, ...
The Estonian Festival Orchestra opened its "Arvo Pärt 90" jubilee tour in Tallinn Wednesday, with stops next in Vienna, ...
It has taken Estonian composer Arvo Part the best part of forty years to pen a new symphony, his fourth, called 'Los Angeles.' And at 75 next month, the composer was on hand to receive an ...
The music of Estonian composer Arvo Part enjoyed something of a vogue in the early 1990s, along with other spiritually oriented music, including Gregorian chant and Henryk Gorecki's dreary and ...
The reclusive Arvo Part is now the second-most-performed classical composer in the world - Michael Putland/Getty Images This week, the world’s best-known living religious composer, the reclusive ...
The low-pitched drones, pinging bells and blossoming voices that populate the sacred choral and instrumental works on Tractus tend to lower my blood pressure. The music allows room to breathe deeply.
THIS year's RTE Living Music Festival devoted itself, in the main, to a retrospective of Estonian-born composer Arvo Part. The festival's artistic director, composer James MacMillan, points out that ...
This past Saturday, the Belgian National Orchestra performed a concert dedicated to Arvo Pärt in honor of his 90th birthday. Titled "Arvo Pärt 90!" the performance was part of this year's ...
Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has long been the recording darling of Manfred Eicher and ECM Records. The label has released no fewer than eleven volumes of his music, including the record under current ...
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