Arvo Pärt's minimalistic masterpiece "Tabula Rasa" set to ballet.

Note: I had mentioned Arvo Pärt's music last night to N as we were discussing music composition across time, and style in music. While N knows what she is talking about when it comes to music, given that she was fed classical music right from the cradle, I just have to go with my undeveloped animal instincts for certain kind of sounds. So based on such imprecise criteria, Arvo Pärt's melancholic and sparse music ranks high among the handful of contemporary classical composers I know of.

These are few other clips containing Pärt's music, which I found on YouTube:

1. Spiegel im Spiegel
2. Fratres I
3. Pas de
4. Da pacem Domine
5. First clip from "Preludes for a Fugue", a documentary on Pärt
6. Bjork's conversation with Pärt

Also an older melancholic post that mentions Pärt

Johnny Cash's inimitable voice singing one of the most ambiguous, and hence lovely, rock songs ever written, U2's "One".

Too late Tonight To drag the past out into the light We're one, but we're not the same We get to Carry each other Carry each other One

Itzhak Perlam plays Bazzini's "La Ronde Des Lutins" (The Dance of Goblins). Meanwhile, this lutin, granted a rare day of freedom, is off to the MET for rituals and prayers.

Update: My MET plans were brutally quashed when work caught up with me as soon as I emerged from the subway tunnel, across the river in downtown Manhattan, on ze crackberry with a set of urget to-dos. All I could do was eat a Noo-Yook lunch and return to the work desk. Perhaps I shall return this Saturday, with (the very distract-worthy) N with tow, if only to see "Venice and The Islamic World, 828-1797".