The exiled Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov paid a call yesterday on his contemporary Arvo Pärt in his Estonian retreat.
The Estonia Hall in Talinn is putting on a Silvestrov concert tonight.
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The Berkeley Symphony has announced that Joseph Young will leave next summer after six years as music director. Young, 42, is also artistic director at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. Berkeley was his first orchestra. […]
