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Originally Posted by QcCowboy
Funny, I feel sort of the same about Pärt - ambivalent. It's actually nice music to have in the background during a dinner party. It's not really anything I would sit and listen to rapturously.
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it's really mind blowing how people can be SO different.
i must get out completely of the place to listen to some of the best parts works - cantos for benjamin britten or fratres, or spiegel, or fur alina, or lamentate. maybe i need that, because it's so little on surface of his (late) music, so, yeah, you could pass it as background music, but it's not the whole story anyways.
and - arvo part wasn't just tintinabuli composer, his earlier works draw major influences from bach, his collages are massive, though don't like his symphonies and choral works (being atheist).
i think his tintinabuli and this calm surface sound has some roots in him a) being once film composer and b) being deeply religious. the first one requires to be able to open up a space for an image. the second one - to, well, see lord (beauty and love) in every single thing. i do him high five, when he states that a single note is enough. many composers try to force notes to be. part tries to let the note be.
(not implying that murdering notes is essentially a threat to music)
well, anyway, he is not a one way composer.
from collages through fratres to lamentate there is wide variety of his music.