Looking for sanctity amid modern noise, Arvo Pärt fled to the West to escape Soviet censorship. For some time now, the “composer of silence” has proclaimed that every sound should be loved. 

 Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, the emblematic director of the silent film era, made a name with such groundbreaking works as Nosferatu, a chilling adaptation of the Dracula story, and Faust, which is based on Goethe’s classic and features the latest technical innovations of its time.