On October 25, see "Even If I Lose Everything," Dorian Supin’s third and final documentary about Estonian master composer Arvo Pärt, with a panel featuring celebrated virtuosos Peter Bouteneff, David Lang, and Paavo Järvi to follow!
Taking place in the presence of H.E. Alar Karis, President of Estonia, H.E. Heidy Purga, Estonia's Minister of Culture, and H.E. Kristjan Prikk, Estonia's Ambassador to the United States, the program will be held alongside celebrations of the composer this season at Carnegie Hall, including an October 23 performance with the Estonian Festival Orchestra.
Perhaps the most personal installment of Supin's series, this intimate portrait steps closer to the man behind the music, showing his many sides in a domestic setting as a composer, husband, father, and grandfather as he navigates the demands of his legacy. Once known as the avant-garde firebrand driven from his country by Soviet censorship for his radically prayerful melodies, "Even If I Lose Everything" centers on the gentler rhythms of Pärt's days back home on the eve of his 80th birthday.
The film draws its title – and much of its stories – from flashes of Pärt's workbooks, all of which he has kept close through endless personal and political upheavals. Throughout his decades of writing music, he has filled the workbooks with contemplations expressing his moments of grief and joy, his discoveries, worries, and experiences. The musings and recollections inspired by these notes, in parallel with glimpses of domesticity, come together to reveal a composer committed to living a life in accordance with the music he creates: meditative, emotionally evocative, spacious, and grounded in the realm of the sacred.
The panel conversation after the film will explore Pärt’s cultural resonance, including its influence across the visual arts and architecture as well as its enrichment of countless film and dance compositions.
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