Claimed to be the most performed living composer in concert halls last year – a somewhat limited qualification – the Estonian composer can now add another first to his name.
A weekend fest in Portland, Oregon next month will be his first in North America.
Details here.
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Arvo Pärt is Estonian.
http://www.universaledition.com/composers-and-works/Arvo-Paert/composer/534
And Lebrecht was mocking DG’s Pollini mispell the other day.
Shut up
Let me guess: Trumpist?
Pärt’s ‘Litany’ was commissioned by and given its first performance at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1994.
Sorry guys but I find him utterly boring.I doubt that many people ever paid to hear him on media or live.
While I don’t doubt your boredom, Sorin, it seems that a lot of people feel differently about his music. http://www.studyinestonia.ee/arvo-part-continues-be-most-performed-composer-world
Have to agree with Sorin. There’s something a bit emperor’s new clothes about his music. I grant that many feel differently, which doesn’t surprise me at all. His music is easy listening. People like ease.
I’m with you. I heard his 4th Symphony several years ago in LA and thought it was sonic glurge. The rest of the audience fell for it.
For what it’s worth, there are plenty of folks like me who like most of Pärt’s music a great deal but don’t much like the 4th Symphony.
Try the Magnificat, Tabula Rasa, or Stabat Mater. You may or may not like them, either, but you can’t fairly describe them as “glurge”. They’re quite spare.
I’ve heard some of his other work although not the ones you suggested. Not my cup of coffee.
He was featured composer-in-residence at the 1986 Cabrillo Music Festival, Dennis Russell Davies, Music Director.
The article is not quite correct in being the first festival to feature his music in North America.
We featured his music over a week in January 1996 at the Winnipeg New Music Festival. Mr. Part attended and Bramwell Tovey conducted; variety of soloists, choir. We very much enjoyed meeting the composer.
Was that year’s WNMF all Pärt?
I believe the specific claim is that this is the first North American festival devoted solely to Pärt’s work.
But this festival is not devoted solely to Pärt’s work.
http://www.cappellaromana.org/concert/part-parcel/
Sorry about that, and thanks for the correction.