Happy Birthday, ARVO PÄRT!! The Estonian "sacred minimalist" composer is 89-years-old today. Pärt is an Estonian composer of contemporary classical music. Since the late 1970s, Pärt has worked in a minimalist style that employs tintinnabuli, a compositional technique he invented. Pärt's music is in part inspired by Gregorian chant. CLICK HERE TO HEAR PÄRT’S BEAUTIFUL “MAGNIFICAT.”

September 11 is the birthday of English composer WILLIAM BOYCE (1711-1779. Boyce was largely forgotten after his death and he remains a little-performed composer today, although a number of his pieces were rediscovered in the 1930s and Constant Lambert edited and sometimes conducted his works. Lambert had already launched the early stages of the modern Boyce revival in 1928, when he published the first modern edition of the Eight Symphonies (Bartlett and Bruce 2001).

CLICK HERE TO HEAR BOYCE’S CORONATION ANTHEM “THE KING SHALL REJOICE.”