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i’m heading back to Estonia first thing this morning, to attend the main portion of this year’s AFEKT, the country’s most aesthetically radical and outward-looking festival. This year there are celebrations to mark Luciano Berio’s 100th anniversary, as well as the 90th birthdays of Helmut Lachenmann and Arvo Pärt. The latter wouldn’t ordinarily get me remotely excited, except they’ll be focusing on the only tolerable part of Pärt’s output, his early work from the late 1950s and early ’60s, so that, alongside everything else, should be very interesting. Back at the end of the month.