Resonant Silence: Is Arvo Pärt’s Music Orthodox?

by Peter Bouteneff

Many factors led me to the deeper study of Arvo Pärt’s music that I have undertaken during recent years. First among them was the music itself which has made an indelible mark on me for the past quarter-century.

Peter Bouteneff

Dr. Peter Bouteneff has taught at St. Vladimir’s Seminary since 2000, in early and modern theology and in the arts. He is co-founder of the seminary’s Arvo Pärt Project, which brought the composer to New York for concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bouteneff recently completed the monograph Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence, forthcoming from SVS Press.

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