Well this concert was a strange affair. It began with a six-minute overture by Grażyna Bacewicz, the long-forgotten Polish ...

Now that the Proms is over, what other classical concerts can we look forward to? There will be tributes to grandees of the ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, he also rarely ventures out in public, keeps quiet about his music, feels at home in the forests of Estonia and ...

There's something about the music of Arvo Pärt that makes people stop driving. In the late 1970s, the record producer Manfred Eicher heard it on the car radio and pulled off the road to listen until ...

World-renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday will be celebrated with concerts by the Estonian Philharmonic ...

News: Spanish office Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to design a woodland cultural centre for the organisation run by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, after claiming their proposal won't ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, the Estonian developed a totally unique style that earned Soviet censorship but made Pärt one of the most performed living classical composers in the world today. For the Estonian ...

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 ...