Sholl, Robert ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-2645 (2026) Arvo Pärt 'Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten' and Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 151 (2). pp. 1-30. ISSN 0269-0403

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Abstract

This study examines how the absolute and the sacred are dilated through Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten (1977/80), as employed in a small section near the beginning of Michael Moore’s film Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004). It places the sacral aesthetics of Pärt’s music in the context of the film and shows how the music affords a contingent vision of and resistance to the sacral presuppositions (related to the Crucifixion) of the felling of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001. It discusses the music and film as memorialization and mourning, exposing the absolute and sacred.

Item Type:	Article
Identifier:	10.1017/rma.2026.10076
Subjects:	Music > Composition Film and television > Screen studies
Date Deposited:	28 Oct 2026
Dates:	Date Publication status 22 May 2026 Accepted 26 October 2026 Published Online
School, department or research centre:	London College of Music
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/15584

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