Happy 90th Birthday, ARVO PÄRT!

[BB-8 5,657]

...and he actually did compose film music.

 

 

https://www.arvopart.ee/en/arvo-part/works/

[A24 4,948]

A have a few Arvo Pärt CDs. Who else can say that, huh?

[Edmilson 11,121]

His music worked wonderfully well in Avengers: Age of Ultron.

 

 

[BB-8 5,657]

 

[bruce marshall 1,959]

The most influential (film) composer of the last twenty five years!

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

11 hours ago, A24 said:

A have a few Arvo Pärt CDs. Who else can say that, huh?

 

I can, and so can my wife.

[Naïve Old Fart 12,248]

4 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

I can, and so can my wife.

Is she also called Brian?

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

6 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Is she also called Brian?

 

Mama Shark.

[Marian Schedenig 10,921]

3 hours ago, Jurassic Shark said:

15 hours ago, A24 said:

A have a few Arvo Pärt CDs. Who else can say that, huh?

 

I can, and so can my wife.

 

So can I.

 

Here's the Pärt piece we sang a few years back (not our recording - no public upload for copyright reasons):

 

 

Another cool one:

 

[Henry Janislaus Feigensand 589]

went to a choral concert in the Berlin Philharmonie yesterday, it was beautiful.

 

[Jurassic Shark 15,645]

Great composers.

[A24 4,948]

 

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1147992370512738

[karelm 3,239]

Happy birthday Maestro!  Lots of very fine and interesting works from you over an illustrious career.  His early works were serial then switched in the 1970's after going through a collage phase (mixing styles and eras) then landing on his mature overtly traditional and religious style.  Lots of composers went through a similar transformation like Penderecki (similarly in the 1970's), one could argue Philip Glass too.  I haven't heard anything of his pre-minimalism but he mentioned minimalism was a reaction to the avante guarde of the 1960's.

[bruce marshall 1,959]

I hope he got paid for all the times his music was used in films 

Fortunately, most of the films were after the Soviet Union collapsed so he probably did.

But, before then composers were SOL  , at least as far as being paid by American producers 

[Mr. Hooper 7,205]

This guy can't stand that Williams is more popular, so throws some shade at him...

 

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/musical-miracles-abound-arvo-p-133816738.html

[bruce marshall 1,959]

I first heard his music on radio shows like " Hearts of Space" which programmed New Age/ Space/ Ambient music.

Eno and Part!

[LiterallyIconic 1,562]

I like Part. It's like, what if Gregorian chant was actually interesting to listen to? Good stuff.

[bruce marshall 1,959]

1 minute ago, LiterallyIconic said:

I like Part. It's like, what if Gregorian chant was actually interesting to listen to? Good stuff.

I prefer his purely instrumental work

[Mr. Hooper 7,205]

21 minutes ago, LiterallyIconic said:

I like Part. It's like, what if Gregorian chant was actually interesting to listen to? Good stuff.

 

My generation's introduction to Gregorian chant...