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title: "Video: the Arvo Pärt diaries"
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# Video: the Arvo Pärt diaries

![Image](https://estonianworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Arvo-Part-by-Kaupo-Kikkas-1024x576.jpg)

By  [Silver Tambur](https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/)
  ·  February 21, 2021  · [Culture](https://estonianworld.com/category/culture/)
, [Videos](https://estonianworld.com/category/videos/)
 · 1 minute of reading

### Arvo Pärt, one of the most performed living composers in the world, turned 85 on 11 September 2020; to celebrate the occasion, a special documentary telling the story of the maestro’s diaries was produced.

The TV programme, produced in collaboration with the Estonian Public Broadcasting for the [composer’s birthday](https://estonianworld.com/culture/arvo-part-celebrates-his-85th-birthday/)
, tells the story of Pärt’s music diaries, which he has kept since his creative crisis in the early 1970s. The permanent exhibition at the [Arvo Pärt Centre](https://estonianworld.com/culture/gallery-the-arvo-part-heritage-centre-opens-in-estonia/)
 in Laulasmaa, Estonia, was also produced based on the texts and reflections found among the pages of these diaries.

The programme (in Estonian, with English subtitles) includes interviews with the composer’s wife Nora Pärt, the curators of the permanent exhibition at the centre, Kristina Kõrver and Kai Kutman, and the musicologist Toomas Siitan – as well as Arvo Pärt reading from his music diaries.

Cover: Arvo Pärt. Photo by Kaupo Kikkas.

## About The Author

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[Silver Tambur](https://estonianworld.com/author/silver/)
Silver Tambur, co-founder and publisher of *Estonian World*, studied journalism at the University of Tartu and politics at Birkbeck, University of London. He has edited Estonian Public Broadcasting’s English news and contributed to *Business Sense*, *Deutsche Welle*, and *Radio New Zealand*. He is currently editor-in-chief of *Trialoog*, TalTech’s business and research portal. You can also follow him on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/SilverTambur)
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