Writings on Pärt

...and writings of. This New York Times article recounts aspects of the life and work of Arvo Pärt, whom I am reading about in detail in a publication called Music & Literature: An Arts Magazine. I was struck by this particular image. I'm reminded perhaps of Xenakis' manuscripts, but especially of the way Prokofiev and Eisenstein would match the music to the storyboard, see below...
 

This would be in the years leading up to the release of Alexander Nevsky, in 1938.

P.S.: This post is largely an effect of stumbling into this delectable tumblr, which apparently is about to shut down. Fill your eyes...