Arvo Pärt is six digits richer
mainThe composer has been awarded the 2014 Praemium Imperiale, Japan’s highest arts honour, worth $147,500. Big day for Estonia.
Other winners this years are the South African playwright Athol Fugard, architect Steven Holl, painter Martial Raysse and sculptor Giuseppe Penone.
photo: Eric Marinitsch/UE
too bad the music isn’t better