Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For years, Arvo Pärt has been one of the most performed contemporary classical composers in the world. Calle Hesslefors/ullstein ...

The Estonian-born composer celebrates his 80th birthday today. Tom Service selects 10 of his works to listen to, some familiar, some less so. Arvo Pärt is 80 today. And, to celebrate the music of ...

In a recent address, Arvo Pärt told his audience: “I apologize, but I cannot help you with words. I am a composer and express myself with sounds.” If anything, his reticence is on the increase: after ...

Arvo Pärt is one of the most popular, most performed living composers. He's beloved worldwide for his signature sound – a spacious, meditative music that tends to sound timeless. But there's a ...

Happy Christmas! If you're Russian Orthodox, today is Christmas Eve; and I'm in the middle of Slavic celebrations because I'm in a hotel in Tallinn, a city that's full of Russian tourists making the ...

Arvo Pärt is one of the few living composers to find popularity beyond the borders of classical music. R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and Bjork are big fans. Although the 78-year-old musician usually shies ...

There is great art; and there is popular art. Many people believe that there is a stark difference between the two. Great art is the stuff of transcendence; it demands our attention and takes us to a ...

World-renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday is set to be celebrated in Oxford, U.K. this month with a special festival of concerts featuring his music. From November 11-16, the city of ...

In her essay, “The Aesthetics of Silence,” Susan Sontag writes that “the artist who creates silence or emptiness must produce something dialectical: a full void, an enriching emptiness, a resonating ...

Twentieth-and twenty-first Century musical titan Arvo Pärt's career straddles both Soviet-era government artistic control and post-communism reality. Born in 1935 in Paide, Estonia, Pärt's symphonic ...

(The Conversation) — The Estonian composer has written some of the world’s most performed contemporary classical music. Many fans may not realize how deep the religious influences on his work are.

Arvo Pärt is one of the most popular, most performed living composers. He's beloved worldwide for his signature sound – a spacious, meditative music that tends to sound timeless. But there's a ...