The Surprising Transcendence of Adam’s Passion
11 min read5 days ago
What can happen when you make just one simple change to a familiar story? This is how I found out.
In the early 1990s, when I was a teenager, the music of Arvo Pärt (Estonian, b. 1935) was a drug I used to escape the confines of the small Kansas town and the religious community that owned me. While hitching rides to Kansas State to study organ (a yet untold story), I bought Arvo Pärt…
