The asteroid was discovered on March 5, 1986 and named after Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.
Fur Alina by Arvo Pärt and its very melancholic ambiance is used in the final scene where Landry conceded defeat and is comforted by the people close to him.
Other recent significant commissions and premieres in the CIMF include Arvo Pärt's Fourth Symphony, Henryk Górecki's ...songs are sung... for string orchestra, the concert premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's The Gift of the Magi and Peter Sculthorpe's "Shining Island".
Examples include Arvo Pärt (an Estonian Orthodox), John Tavener (a British composer who converted to Russian Orthodoxy), Henryk Górecki (a Polish Catholic), Alan Hovhaness (the earliest mystic minimalist), Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Hans Otte, Pēteris Vasks and Vladimír Godár.
Those celebrities include Edmund Russow, Anastasia Tsvetaeva, Peter Ustinov, Romulus Tiitus, Igor Vsevoloþski (buried in Käsmu), Nikolai Rakov, Ülo Vinter (buried in Käsmu), Arvo Pärt and Gustav Ernesaks.
Arvo Pärt | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 | The Godfather Part II | Friday the 13th Part III | Henry VI, Part 2 | Henry IV, Part 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years | Rambo: First Blood Part II | Till Death Us Do Part | Part 2 | Friday the 13th Part 2 | Back to the Future Part II | The Snake King's Wife Part 2 | Part-time | History of the World, Part I | End of Part One | Atlas Shrugged: Part I | Till Death Us Do Part (British TV series) | Til Debt Do Us Part | The Toxic Avenger Part II | The Hangover Part II | The Amityville Horror Part II | That's Entertainment, Part III | Pärt | part | MPEG-4 Part 14 | ISDN User Part | I Need a Girl (Part Two) |
Dying Machines combines droning guitars with classical instrumentation into cinematic music that is similar in style to Hans Zimmer, Stars of the Lid, Arvo Pärt and John Murphy, all of whom have been cited as influences on Dying Machines' style.
She is a member of Paul Hillier's Theatre of Voices, with whom she sings ancient and baroque works of composers such as Abelard, Lassus, Tallis, and Schütz as well as contemporary creations such as by Cage, Stockhausen, and Pärt.
The choir has collaborated with Estonian composers Arvo Pärt, Veljo Tormis, Urmas Sisask and Tõnis Mägi and appeared at a number on international conferences, symposiums, festivals (La Fabbrica del Canto in Italy, Polyfollia in France, Sympaatti in Finland).
The partly instrumental concert God Is My DJ, which later was recorded in studio and released on Warner Music, comprises works by composers as diverse as Arvo Pärt, David Crosby, Popol Vuh, Gavin Bryars, Franco Battiato and Jane Siberry, French, Hungarian and Livonian traditionals as well as eleventh and fourteenth century hymns sung in Ancient Greek and Latin.
He has quickly established a career as a virtuoso who possesses not only an impressive command of the classical repertoire, but has also commissioned many new works from contemporary composers, including Harrison Birtwistle, Toru Takemitsu, Hans Werner Henze, Rolf Martinsson, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Heinz Karl Gruber, Benjamin Staern, Tobias Broström and Arvo Pärt.
He owns a choir and chamber orchestra called Camerata and has begun to perform contemporary classical such as Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt in Iran; And for the first time in Iran he arranged some tracks of Rock-band celebrities for his orchestra such as Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Scorpions, Iron Maiden and has begun to give live concerts.
All of his recordings have been of contemporary or 20th-century composers, such as John Adams, Hans Otte, Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars and Frederic Rzewski.
Featured composers include Scottish-based composers including David Fennessy, Gordon McPherson, Sally Beamish and Bill Sweeney and international names such as John Adams, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Toru Takemitsu and James Dillon.
"Tintinnabuli is the mathematically exact connection from one line to another.....tintinnabuli is the rule where the melody and the accompaniment accompanying voice...is one. One plus one, it is one - it is not two. This is the secret of this technique." - from a conversation between Arvo Pärt and Antony Pitts recorded for BBC Radio 3 at the Royal Academy of Music in London on 29 March 2000, as printed in the liner notes of the Naxos Records release of Passio.
It contains the songs "Untitled #1" by Spain, and Fratres by Arvo Pärt, but the album has become extremely rare since its release.
During Holy Week 2009, the Choir performed Arvo Pärt's Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem with Jerzy Kozlowski (as Jesus), Matthew Thomson (as Pilate) and Ensemble Gombert.