The Complete Beauty of Arvo Pärt’s “Für Alina”
To hazard being hackneyed, I don’t remember the first time I heard Arvo Pärt’s
Für Alina with my ears. I knew it as the piece that woke the composer from his
Brian Gillikin
Brian Gillikin is a composer, hitchhiker, and occasional poet who works for an international education program in Tbilisi, Georgia, where he lives with his exotic Georgian wife. He tweets about music
“May Flights of Angels Sing Thee to Thy Rest”
The composer John Tavener is dead. Known for his strikingly gaunt physical
features – which resulted from the same genetic condition that eventually killed
him – and strong Orthodox Christian faith, Tavener stands among the
Here and here and here
A few scratches of petroleum-based
ink; swift motions of being and becoming –
the weight, the thrust, on the shoulders sisyphean,
of a name. 3Xs. Father, Son, H. Ghost.
Top and middle and bottom