Last year, Estonia's world-famous composer Arvo Pärt was the most-performed contemporary composer in the world once again, according to the classical music website Bachtrack. Pärt's son Michael, who ...

Indiana University joined a global tribute Friday night as the Byrnes Institute honored Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday with a guest lecture from Amherst College ethnomusicologist Jeffers Engelhardt, a ...

A dog in Alberta, Canada, has gone viral thanks to a very distinctive feature—an underbite that his owner was originally told was “slight,” but has since grown into a full-fledged, irresistibly goofy ...

Clive Gillinson, artistic director of Carnegie Hall in New York, told ERR that Arvo Pärt is one of the greatest musical influencers of our time all around the world. Earlier this year a special ...

The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra delivers Ginastera’s dynamic Psalm 150 in 'Hope of the Season.' Celebrate the power of praise with Ginastera’s dramatic setting of Psalm 150. Beginning with gentle ...

It’s official. Medicare costs will eat up much of older Americans' Social Security cost-of-living adjustment next year. The standard monthly premium for Medicare Part B, which covers outpatient care, ...

The standard Medicare Part B premium will increase to $202.90 per month in 2026, up 9.7% from $185 per month in 2025, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced. Because those ...

In the spring of 1976, a Latvian architecture student named Hardijs Lediņš organized a music festival at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. The venue was a disused Anglican church where Lediņš had been ...

Not many living composers of the concert-hall variety have carved a niche with the broader public. But Arvo Pärt, Estonian to his core, is certainly among them. In large measure that’s because Mr.

I’ve worn a middle parting since I was a teenager. Never a side part. On very rare occasions, I’ve ever-so-slightly tilted it to one side, as a tentative way of switching it up. Legendary French ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Estonian Festival Orchestra made its North American debut at Carnegie Hall, offering a broad, excellently played survey of Pärt’s ...

Medicare Part B premiums have steadily increased over the years and are projected to continue increasing. This is mainly due to the ever-increasing costs of healthcare services and medications. Most ...