Indiana University joined a global tribute Friday night as the Byrnes Institute honored Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday with a ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAST month, the universe executed another of its capricious yin-yang maneuvers. Although now a black date on the calendar, 9/11 also happens to be the birthday of Arvo Part, that otherworldly composer ...

One of the greatest and most enigmatic composers of the late 20th century is made considerably more accessible in "Arvo Part: 24 Preludes for a Fugue." Both an interview and a study of the creative ...

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For his 90th birthday, the Arvo Pärt Center published a new collection of the Estonian maestro's witty musical greetings spanning nearly five decades. "Gratefully. Heartfelt. With Love. Musical ...

Arvo Part says he found his musical voice by letting everything unimportant fall away. His heartfelt directness has made him one of today's best-loved composers. We'll hear a concert performance of ...

The new album of music by Arvo Pärt, Tractus, seems to put an arm around you and whisper, "In troubled times, music can help." Known for his serene, slow-moving music, the 88-year-old Estonian ...