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Happy Birthday, ARVO PÄRT!! The Estonian "sacred minimalist" composer is 91 years old today. 🎂 🥂
Voces8 performing The Deer’s Cry by Arvo Pärt
 • Patrick Neas
4:21
English composer HENRY PURCELL was born on September 10, 1659.
Purcell’s The Fairy Queen “Now the night is chased away" performed by Lea Desandre, Thomas Dunford & Jupiter
 • Patrick Neas
1:59
Russian author LEO TOLSTOY was born September 9, 1828
“In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
 • Patrick Neas
Czech composer ANTONÍN DVORÁK was born on September 8, 1841.
“I find inspiration in nature. The birds, the wind, and the rivers all speak to me in their own melodies.”
 • Patrick Neas
7:44
HAPPY LABOR DAY FROM KC ARTS BEAT!! 💪
KC Arts Beat is sponsored by Get Well KC, which offers a body‑mind approach to health and healing, helping individuals alleviate pain and optimize their…
 • Patrick Neas
4:09
English poet DAME EDITH SITWELL was born on September 7.
“Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.”
 • Patrick Neas
15:19
Stacie McDaniel Gives a Tour of the Midwest Trust Center’s New Season
A SEASON THAT DANCES, SINGS, SWOONS AND ROARS,
 • Patrick Neas
The great Austrian composer ANTON BRUCKNER was born on September 4, 1824.
"Half simpleton, half God." (Gustav Mahler about Anton Bruckner)
 • Patrick Neas
11:24
CLARK MORRIS DISCUSSES THE HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES’ 62nd SEASON
It’s going to be monumental
 • Patrick Neas
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: On September 1, 1902, A TRIP TO THE MOON, directed by the former stage magician Georges Méliès, was released in France…
It’s a proto-Steampunk masterpiece.
 • Patrick Neas
12:49

August 2026

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