This week, the world’s best-known living religious composer, the reclusive Estonian Arvo Pärt, turns 90. The fact that he’s ...

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 ...

This month, there are concerts being held across Estonia to celebrate world-renowned composer Arvo Pärt's 90th birthday.

At 81, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt walks his own quiet path, but has captivated the world into following him.

Events focus on the Estonian composer, whose meditative music inspires pop and classical fans.

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 ...

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 ...

"That Pärt Feeling: The Universe of Arvo Pärt" director Paul Hegeman eschews a typical biographical recounting of the 83-year-old maestro’s prolific life.

To mark the 80th birthday of the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt (Bjork and Michael Stipe are among his fans), preview an upcoming documentary and explore a few facts and myths about this singular ...

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