Arvo Pärt and Contemporary Spirituality Conference

Boston University, March 26 and 27, 2010

To celebrate the 75th birthday of Arvo Pärt (born 11 September, 1935), Boston University is hosting a conference entitled ‘Arvo Pärt and Contemporary Spirituality’. Jointly promoted by the School of Theology and the School of Music, with cooperation from CAS/GRS and the Boston University Humanities Foundation, the conference will examine Pärt’s music using and developing cross-disciplinary methodologies drawing on media studies, theological studies and different analytical approaches to music. By working on issues of interpretation it endeavors to bridge the traditional gap between scholars and performers, and it directly addresses the largest group of people who come across Pärt’s music: the audience.

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Program Committee

Announcement

Due to the large number of abstract submitted for this conference the notification date for acceptance has been moved to Monday, 30 November 2009.

Andrew Shenton, Chair (Boston University)
Sander van Maas (University of Amsterdam)
Robert Sholl (Royal Academy of Music, London)
Karen Westerfield Tucker (Boston University School of Theology)
Jeremy Yudkin (Boston University College of Fine Arts / College of Arts and Sciences)

Conference administrator (to whom all questions should be addressed and all abstracts sent): Holly Reed [reedhg@bu.edu]