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Alan Hovhaness. (1911 2000). (b. Somerville, Massachusetts (USA); 8 March 1911). Alan Hovhaness (also spelt Hovaness) was an American
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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. Part of my music is easy to listen to, in a certain respect. Alan Hovhaness, from an interview with CBC Vancouver, October 1968. Biography.
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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...

5. Alan Hovhaness
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8. ALAN HOVHANESS Works Part 1: Music On The Web(UK)
ALAN HOVHANESS Catalogue of Works Part 1. Part 2 Part 3(Classified Index). ALAN hovhaness alan Hovhaness, of Armenian and Scottish
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ALAN HOVHANESS Alan Hovhaness, of Armenian and Scottish descent, was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, on March 8, 1911. He began composing as soon as he could read music, at the age of four - a spontaneous act which seems to have had about it the inevitability of an unquestioned law of nature. Since that time he has been like a river flowing into every form of musical expression. From pieces for various solo instruments and chamber ensembles, including oriental instruments, his art expands nobly through large orchestras and choirs. His output is vast. as indeed are the giant melodies which characterize much of his work. At the time of the second world war, Hovhaness made the courageous decision to destroy almost his entire previous output - more than a thousand works. This oft quoted "legend" is true, his reasons being bound up in his ever expanding awareness of the potential of combining Eastern with Western influences, which cast feelings of strong dissatisfaction on his work prior to that time. A detailed analysis and study of 7th century Armenian religious music, classical music of South India, orchestral music of Tang Dynasty China, Ah-ak of Korea, and Gagaku of Japan, revolutionized Hovhaness's approach to his own composing. Since his "new beginning" he has composed more than 360 works to date, including orchestral pieces, concertos, oratorios, operas, chamber works, songs, and 52 symphonies (see Classified Index). All this is music of direct and exquisitely melodic nature, abounding in fascinating rhythmic invention, some of it using microtones (which, the composer feels, frees music from conventional Western restrictions, thereby allowing greater fluidity), and with a unity that touches on a sphere beyond the realm of mere orchestral sound.

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ALAN HOVHANESS. Born 8th March 1911, Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. Much has been rightly made of the mixed heritage of Alan Hovhaness.
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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.
As an introduction, try his 'Fra Angelico' or his ever-popular Symphony No.2 'Mysterious Mountain' - only make sure that it's the (sublime - if liberal) version conducted by Reiner Other popular and accessible works are his coupling of Symphony No. 50 'Mount Saint Helens' with Symphony No 22 'City of Light'.
Hovhaness' music is always positive, uplifting, ennobling and spiritually nourishing. He often introduces unusual meters whilst his music is largely modal and always tonal. Nevertheless, within these self-imposed boundaries he allows himself tremendous creative freedom. To give some idea of what his music sounds like one could say that the harmonies of some of his music from the 1970s onwards bears a superficial resemblance to that of the English composer Vaughan-Williams.
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. 220 (1967); And God created great whales, op. 229 (1968?). External link. Alan Hovhaness website. This article is from Wikipedia.
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Alan Hovhaness March 8 June 21 ) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. He was born as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian in Somerville, Massachusetts to Haroutiun Vaness Chakmakjian, a chemistry professor at Tufts College , and Madeline Scott. (Upon his mother's death ( ), he used the surname "Hovaness" in honor of his paternal grandfather, and officially changed it to "Hovhaness" around .) Alan was interested in music from a very early age, and decided to devote himself to composition at the age of 14. He studied at Tufts and then the New England Conservatory of Music, under Frederick Converse. He became interested in Armenian culture and music in 1940, as the organist for the St. James Armenian Church in Watertown, Massachusetts . In he won a scholarship at Tanglewood to study in Bohuslav Martinu 's master class, but did not fit in, and felt his music was ridiculed by his fellow students. The next year he devoted himself to Armenian subject matter, in particular using modes distinctive to Armenian music, and continued for several years, achieving some renown and the support of other musicians, including John Cage and Martha Graham , all while continuing as church organist.

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CD Holdings of the Armenian Research Center Hovhaness, Alan. Vision of a Starry Night (Westbury, NY Koch International Classics, 1994), 6614 MINS mins. Hovhaness, Alan.
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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 (19112000), 225 Chamber symphony for 10 players (2426) Fra Angelico, op. 220 (1601) Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Hovhaness, Conductor,
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Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) 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

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An important but marginalised 20th Century American composer. A 'true original' who foreshadowed future musical techniques and aesthetic values. Rejecting the vogues of Americana, serialism and atonality, he pioneered contemporary development of archaic models and (like Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison) melded Western models with those of the East, making him a pioneer of East-West 'fusion' decades before the term 'World Music' had been coined. Pioneered 'ad libitum' aleatoricism in 1944, some 15 years before the European avant garde. As early as the 1940s, his employment of ever-shifting melodies over static harmonies, plus use of rhythmic cycles, pre-empted the Minimalist movement of the late 1960s. The visionary and mystical nature of some phases of his work, often intoxicating in its directness and simplicity, rank him as the musical progenitor to the later, so-called New Age-ists and Spiritual Minimalists, such as Arvo Pärt and John Tavener His significance remains overlooked by musical academia, partly because scholars have not looked for radical developments within post-War tonal music, still less in music of great beauty with audience appeal.

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Biography with studies, evolution of style, Armenian, Korean, and Japanese influences, use of religious themes, and types of works. From the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
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News July 2000. Composer alan hovhaness Dies at 89. alan hovhaness. Photo courtesy of C.F. Peters. lan hovhaness, a prolific composer who melded Western and Asian musical genres, died in Seattle on
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Alan Hovhaness
Photo courtesy of C.F. Peters lan Hovhaness, a prolific composer who melded Western and Asian musical genres, died in Seattle on June 21, 2000. He was 89 and had suffered from a severe stomach ailment for the last three years. Hovhaness was born in Somerville, MA, on March 8, 1911 to Haroutiun Hovhaness Chakmakjian, a chemistry professor, and Madeline Scott Chakmakjian. His Scottish mother thought her husband's Armenian last name sounded too foreign for a young child growing up in a suburb of Boston, so she changed his name to Alan Hovhaness when he was still quite young. Hovhaness began improvising even before he had piano lessons, and began writing music as soon as he learned to read it at the age of seven. By age 13, Hovhaness had already written two operas, Bluebeard and Daniel , as well as a number of smaller works. His early piano teachers were Adelaide Proctor and Heinrich Gebhard, and his first composition studies were with Frederick Converse at the New England Conservatory of Music (following a brief period at Tufts The pivotal moment in Hovhaness' development as a composer was in 1942, when he won a scholarship to study at

20. ALAN HOVHANESS On CRYSTAL: Classical CD Reviews-Jan 2000 Music On The Web(UK)
Reviews of recordings by Rob Barnett from Classical CD ReviewsFeb 2000 Music on the Web(UK).
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Len Mullenger: Len@musicweb.uk.net ALAN HOVHANESS on CRYSTAL The Authentic Voice ALAN HOVHANESS conducts his own music on CRYSTAL RECORDS (including many world premiere recordings)
INTRODUCTION Hovhaness is among the most prolific of composers - in company with restless creators like Milhaud, Martinu and Villa-Lobos. His catalogue runs to hundreds of opus numbered works. Regretfully we must note that he destroyed stacks of early works during the 1940s. One can imagine the state of his catalogue if he had simply archived this 'juvenilia' in a University rather than burning it. Quantity is one thing - impressive as far as it goes - but what about the quality of the music? This has come in for some opprobrium from critics affronted at coming across music of the 1950s-1980s in such a frankly lyric vein. It is, they maintain, too unvaried, static and too easy to listen to. Certainly a Hovhaness symphony is easily enough recognisable but then so are the Nielsen and Martinu symphonies. This does not take away from their individual beauty, sturdy drama and slow-speaking eminence. Hovhaness has quarried Armenian, Middle Eastern, Japanese and Malaysian music yet not once does the music lapse into cheap post-card emotions or simplistic pictorialism. Hovhaness is no brother to Ketelbey but has more in common (if we must find parallels) with Percy Grainger, Vaughan Williams, Charles Griffes, John Foulds and the group who may well have found their origin in his music, the minimalists like Reich and Glass.

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Composer Alan Hovhaness Dies at 89

Alan Hovhaness - Symfonie 20
"Three Journeys to a Holy Mountain"