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Includes biography and discography with recommended listening.Category Arts Music Composition Composers H Hovhaness, AlanAlan Hovhaness. (1911 2000). (b. Somerville, Massachusetts (USA);8 March 1911). Alan Hovhaness (also spelt Hovaness) was an American
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Extractions: Alan Hovhaness (b. Somerville, Massachusetts (USA); 8 March 1911) Alan Hovhaness (also spelt Hovaness) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent; and perhaps the most distinctive figure in contemporary music... also one of the most prolific, with an opus tally hovering around 400. Chronologically, part of the generation of composers who followed pioneers such as Henry Cowell, Gershwin Virgil Thomson , Carl Ruggles, Copland and the rediscovery of Charles Ives (therefore roughly contemporaneous with William Schuman David Diamond , Lukas Foss, Bernstein , etc); but stylistically a maverick, whose music reflects a love of Western counterpoint and a personal fascination with by Indian, East Asian and Armenian music more obviously than any contemporary musical thought. Hovhaness is said to have begun composing aged four; then studied with Frederick Converse at New England Conservatory and with at Tanglewood. Despite an early interest in Indian music, his compositions prior to the Second World War tend to suggest a mixture of Baroque structures and late Romantic (particularly Sibelian) melody. The early "Exile" symphony (Symphony No. 1) (1939) and the String Quartet No. 1 ("Jupiter") (1936) - which includes the original version of his "Prelude and Quadruple Fugue" - are surviving examples (see below) of this early period of composition. Rethought his approach to composition while working (as composer, organist and teacher) in Boston (1940-1952); partly in response to criticism of his work by Copland and others at Tanglewood. The imput of the mystic painter Hermon DiGiovanno (after whose work the "Celestial Gate" symphony (Symphony No. 6; 1959) was written) also became significant at this time. It should also be noted that much of Hovhaness's music during this period was written with a specific student ensemble in mind... like the Baroque composers Hovhaness admires, he found inspiration in the technique of writing for the musicians to hand.
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Alan hovhaness alan Hovhaness was born in 1911 to an Armenian fatherand a Scottish mother, and was composing from an early age.
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Extractions: Rating: - Alan Hovhaness When Alan Hovhaness died in June 2000 he had acheived what very few other classical composers have acheived. Not only did he become appreciated within his own lifetime, his music has been elevated to almost cult status, perhaps because of his interest in the natural world, spirituality and Eastern mysticism.
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An American Mosaic Hovhaness Alan Campbell Bruce MacDowell Edward Broeders Mario
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Alan Hovhaness Symfonie 20 Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain . Decomponist. Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) is een Amerikaan van Schots
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Extractions: "Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain" De belangstelling van Hovhaness voor religie en mystiek komt tot uiting in zijn Symfonie nr. 20. De ondertitel van deze driedelige symfonie luidt "Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain". Het werk verhaalt op muzikale wijze drie pelgrimstochten naar de Heilige Berg. Gedurende drie kwartier wordt de luisteraar een bijzonder klankperspectief geboden, waarin van alle groepen in het orkest een solistische inspanning wordt verlangd. Ingenieuze combinaties van houten blaasinstrumenten onderling worden afgewisseld met unisono melodielijnen in het koper. Als typisch oosters element is in driekwart van de symfonie het slagwerk in actie: grote trom, grote gong, pauken, buisklokken en vibrafoon. De religieuze themas in de eerste twee delen culmineren in de Grand Final Processional, de verklanking van een processie van priesters naar de bergtop. De processie wordt begeleid door een koraalthema. Beide melodielijnen wisselen elkaar af en leiden uiteindelijk naar de apotheose van het stuk: het magnifieke gevoel dat het aardse in contact komt met de spirituele wereld. Het derde deel uit deze symfonie heeft een plechtig processie-thema als hoofdmelodie. Dit thema wordt vertolkt door de koperblazers. Lage houtblazers zetten een orientaalse, religieus aandoende melodie in, die langzamerhand overgaat in een grote fuga voor de klarinetgroep met ondersteuning van de houtbassen. Op het hoogtepunt van deze fuga keert het processiethema zeer groots terug. Het stuk eindigt met een viertal zeer lange, zeer krachtige akkoorden, ondersteund door pauken, gong en buisklokken. Het mooiste van deze noten is het psychisch effekt dat de naklank ervan teweeg brengt: vanaf de heilige bergtop zie en hoor je de roep van het priesterkoor uitsterven...
Opera & Vocal Hovhaness Alan Campbell Bruce MacDowell Edward Broeders Mario Chap
Opera Vocal hovhaness alan Campbell Bruce MacDowell Edward BroedersMario Chapman Barbara An American Mosaic. Opera Vocal Hovhaness
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Alan Hovhaness. Works List. Alan Hovhaness (19112000) was one ofthe 20th century's most prolific composers. Of Armenian and
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Extractions: Alan Hovhaness Works List Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) was one of the 20th century's most prolific composers. Of Armenian and Scottish descent, Hovhaness grew up in the Boston area, studying music at the New England Conservatory. As far back as his student days, he showed great interest in non-Western music. Listening to the Armenian singer Komitas, Hovhaness learned about "saying as much as possible with the fewest possible notes." This was a radical path to take in the 1940s, and one from which he rarely strayed. Hovhaness cites his studies in the Far East, as well as his exposure to Uday Shankar (brother of Ravi) as the source of the mysticism in his music. But despite this ethereal influence, Hovhaness composed in a clear, linear style. He once wrote: "I've always listened to my own voice. I was discontented with the kind of music that everyone said I should write - all clever and dissonant, intellectualized. I wanted to write music that was deeply felt, music that would move people." The popular Prayer of Saint Gregory , whose lyrical trumpet line is intoned over rich string chords, is a prime example of the simple nobility and affirmation of faith found in much of his music. The work has received thousands of performances, and has been recorded by a number trumpeters, including Wynton Marsalis.
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ALAN HOVHANESS. Born 8th March 1911, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. Muchhas been rightly made of the mixed heritage of Alan Hovhaness.
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Extractions: ALAN HOVHANESS Born 8th March 1911, Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Passed over at the Summer Solstice June 21st 2,000 A composer for our time. A highly prolific composer, with 65 symphonies at the last count and Opus numbers in the 400s, He is well worth investigating. Having arrived at a similar crisis point in his work as Arvo Part, John Tavener and Henryck Gorecki, except much earlier in 1940, his works bear comparison but are richer, with a more inclusive orchestral brush, and more spiritually poetic. Much has been rightly made of the mixed heritage of Alan Hovhaness. The combination of an Armenian father and Scottish mother acted as converging cultural streams that shaped the composer's compelling hybrid compositional style. Attending concerts of Indian classical music in Boston during 1936 also played its part. These performances triggered his interest in various types of Eastern music, many of which had a tremendous effect on him. Some of these musical forms have found expression in certain of his works. His is a unique voice that uniquely combines the accents and inflections of East and West, and of times ancient and modern. Weaving through this quietly powerful blending of cultures is a deep and poetically reverent love for nature as Spirit manifest. He certainly created a truly unique and wonderfully beautiful bridge between the musics of East and West on our little planet. His musical career is most often broken down into four stylistic periods.
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Alan Hovhaness (19112000), 225 Chamber symphony for 10 players (2426) Fra Angelico,op. 220 (1601) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Hovhaness, Conductor,
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Extractions: On what would have been his 90th birthday, March 8, 2001, Other Minds opened its seventh festival with a memorial tribute to Alan Hovhaness. One of his most dazzling chamber works, Khaldis, Op. 91, Concerto, for Piano, Four Trumpets, and Percussion (1951), was performed by the brilliant Canadian soloist Eve Egoyan (sister of filmmaker Atom Egoyan) and the Other Minds Ensemble conducted by Canadian composer Linda Bouchard, now resident in San Francisco, and herself a past composer guest at Other Minds 5 in 1999. The Other Minds Webstore now offers for sale six CDs of the music of Alan Hovhaness, including Khaldis, the work performed on the 90th anniversary of Hovhaness' birth at Other Minds Festival 7, and the brand new release Alan Hovhaness Songs, performed by Ara Berberian, Basso and Alan Hovhaness, Piano
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ALAN HOVHANESS was born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian in Somerville, Massachusetts,on March 8, 1911. A precocious child, he composed
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Alan Hovhaness. The world of music lost one of its most distinctivevoices when Alan Hovhaness died. Fortunately, he left a lot of
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Extractions: Died: June 21, 2000, Seattle, Washington, USA The world of music lost one of its most distinctive voices when Alan Hovhaness died. Fortunately, he left a lot of music with us, and lived to see his music return to fashion after many years in the wilderness. Hovhaness's sound world remains quite consistent from work to worka mark of strong individual style to some, perhaps somewhat monotonous to others. In the 1960's, though, when A. Clyde Roller and the Eastman Wind Ensemble recorded his Symphony No. 4, these were brand new sounds to the band and wind ensemble world. The Symphony No. 4 is probably the best starting place among current recordings. It is on an Eastman Wind Ensemble disc together with a pair of band classics, the Gould and Giannini symphonies. There is one all-Hovhaness, all-band disc out now: Keith Brion and the Ohio State University Concert Band performing the 29th and 53rd symphonies. The 29th was originally written for a baritone horn soloist, but Christian Lindberg does a wonderful job playing it on trombone. The Manhattan Chamber Orchestra has two Hovhaness CDs with one wind symphony work apiece. The Symphony No. 17 for Metal Orchestra (flutes, trombones, metallic percussion) is the major work on their 1995 CD, while the trumpet concerto Return and Rebuild the Desolate Places is included on the Mountains and Rivers Without End CD. Both are highly enjoyable recordings.
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Author, Hovhaness, Alan, 1911. Title, Symphony no. Gregory ; Prelude quadruplefugue ; Alleluia fugue ; Celestial fantasy / Alan Hovhaness.
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Extractions: WORD AUTHOR TITLE SUBJECT Author Hovhaness, Alan, 1911- Title Published Hollywood, Calif. : Delos, p1994. LOCATION CALL NO STATUS 2nd Fl, Music Listening ASK STAFF Descript'n Note Inset contains notes. Compact disc. Delos: DE 3157. Performer Subject Symphonies. Operas Excerpts. Orchestral music. Canons, fugues, etc. (Orchestra) ... String orchestra music. Added author Schwarz, Gerard, 1947- Hovhaness, Alan, 1911-. Mysterious mountain. Hovhaness, Alan, 1911- . ... Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Publisher no. DE 3157 Delos
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Alan Hovhaness wrote more than 400 pieces, including at least nine operas,two ballets, more than 60 symphonies, and more than 100 chamber pieces.
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Extractions: Alan Hovhaness wrote more than 400 pieces, including at least nine operas, two ballets, more than 60 symphonies, and more than 100 chamber pieces. He melded Western and Asian musical styles to create a unique melodic blend of his own. Born Alan Vaness Chamakjian, in Somerville, Mass., in 1911, he demonstrated musical precociousness at an early age. When the family moved to the Boston area, he began studying piano with Adelaide Proctor and later took instruction from Heinrich Gebhard. His early compositions were thoroughly Western. However, the influences of Eastern musical styles became more evident after he attended Bohuslav Martinu's master class in composition in 1942 at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood. Alan Hovhaness died June 21, in Seattle, at the age of 89. "His music reflects the kind of gentle, wonderful soul that he was, but also has the turbulence that one sees in an eruption of a volcano or a tremendous thunderstorm,"said the music director of the Seattle Symphony. Allelujah and Fugue for Strings Armenian Rhapsody No. 3, strings
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