Celebrating Arvo Pärt
February’s intense focus on the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt was not actually pre-planned. Eamonn Quinn’s Louth Contemporary Music Society commissioned a new work,The Deer’s Cry , from the composer and, independently, RTÉ chose him to be the subject of the RTÉ Living Music Festival. The LCMS is bringing the State Choir Latvija to Drogheda and Dundalk, and the Living Music Festival offers more than 20 of Pärt’s works over three days, including Lamentate, the Berliner Messe, Passio and Tabula Rasa . Pärt, who was once branded a “holy minimalist” (along with John Tavener and Henryk Górecki) will be making his first visit to Ireland for the February performances. MD State Choir Latvija. St Peter’s Church of Ireland, Drogheda, 13 Feb 2008; St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dundalk, 14 Feb 2008;
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