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 ...

It is entirely too easy to look at the past and wonder where the greatness is today. In 1734 George Frideric Handel was composing operas at London's Covent Garden. Domenico Scarlatti was in Madrid, ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. While visiting the Tate Modern gallery in London one October day in 2002 ...

Estonian composer Arvo Pärt has been awarded one of the most prestigious international awards in music, the British Royal Philharmonic Society's Gold Medal. The medal was presented to Pärt by the ...

If you're not familiar with the work of Arvo Part then you're in for a treat this week because he will change the way you listen to music. Hi, you're with The Rhythm Divine on ABC Radio National and I ...

With Arvo Pärt's Symphony No 4 only recently released, it's a convenient point to compare his Symphony No 3, written nearly 40 years earlier, which forms the centrepiece of this album helmed by ...