I have always been a bit ambivalent about the music of Arvo Pärt, recognising his achievement in crafting a new kind of ...

World-renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday is set to be celebrated in Oxford, U.K. this month with a special ...

03:06 AM Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) Chichester psalms arranged for treble, chorus, organ, harp & percussion Choeur de Radio France, Unknown (treble), Yves Castagnet (organ), Unknown (harp), Unknown ...

In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where Lediņš had been ...

Credo was unofficially banned after a single performance, its explicitly Christian statement of faith (“I believe in Jesus Christ”) an explosive provocation which sent Pärt into de facto musical exile ...

Arvo Pärt (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈɑrʋo ˈpært]; born September 11, 1935) is an Estonian composer of classical and religious music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Pärt emerged from a period of personal artistic crisis in 1976. In a ...

For years, Arvo Pärt has been one of the most performed contemporary classical composers in the world. Calle Hesslefors/ullstein bild via Getty Images Pärt emerged from a period of personal artistic ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Jeffers Engelhardt, Amherst College (THE CONVERSATION) The Estonian composer ...