1. Alan Hovhaness - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia In 2004 plans were announced to establish an Alan Hovhaness International Research Centre in Yerevan, Armenia, to be part of that nation s State Museum of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Alan Hovhaness with an Indonesian rebab Alan Hovhaness Armenian March 8 June 21 ) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish ancestry, but the inspiration for his mature work was as much Eastern as Western. His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation. The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism. The atmosphere is hushed, reverential, mystical, nostalgic." He was among the most prolific composers of the 20th century, composing 67 symphonies and 434 opus numbers. Contents Early life Destruction of early works Compositional career "Armenian Period" ... edit Early life He was born as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian in Somerville, Massachusetts

2. ALAN HOVHANESS Alan Hovhaness is a highly prolific composer, with 65 symphonies at the last count and Opus numbers in the 400s, He is well worth investigating. http://www.frankperry.co.uk/ALAN HOVHANESS.htm

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. Alan Hovhaness is 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.

3. Alan Hovhaness --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Alan Hovhaness American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent, notable for his eclectic choice of material http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9041221/Alan-Hovhaness

var britAdCategory = "music"; Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to this Topic This Article's Table of Contents Alan Hovhaness Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Aaron Copland Leonard Bernstein Bohuslav Martin Clifford Odets Shopping New! Britannica Book of the Year The Ultimate Review of 2007. 2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set) Revised, updated, and still unrivaled. New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM The world's premier software reference source. Alan Hovhaness Page 1 of 1 born March 8, 1911, Somerville, Massachusetts, U.S. died June 21, 2000, Seattle, Washington Hovhaness also spelled Hovaness , original name Alan Vaness Chakmakjian American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent, notable for his eclectic choice of material from non-European traditions. Hovhaness studied composition with Frederic Converse at the New England Conservatory from 1932 to 1934 and in 1942 at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, Massachusetts, with Hovhaness, Alan...

4. Luck's Music Library - Featured Composer - Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness wrote more than 400 pieces, including at least nine operas, two ballets, more than 60 symphonies, and more than 100 chamber pieces. http://www.lucksmusic.net/featured/hovhaness.asp

Featured Composers George Enesco Mikhail I Glinka Edvard Grieg Franz Joseph Haydn ... Jean Sibelius Past Featured Composers Tomaso Albinoni Leroy Anderson Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach Hector Berlioz ... Home 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.

5. BMOP :: Alan Hovhaness Alan Hovhaness was born in Somerville, MA on 8 March 1911. Alan Hovhaness (also spelt Hovaness) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent; http://www.bmop.org/musicians/composer_bio.aspx?cid=133

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9. Alan Hovhaness - Britannica Concise Hovhaness, Alan American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent, notable for his eclectic choice of material from non-European traditions. http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9367424/Alan-Hovhaness

document.writeln(AAMB1); Hovhaness, Alan Britannica Concise Print Article Email Article Cite Article Alan Hovhaness or Alan Hovaness orig. Alan Vaness Chakmakjian born March 8, 1911, Somerville, Mass., U.S. died June 21, 2000, Seattle, Wash. U.S. composer. He started to compose as a child. Studies at the New England Conservatory led him to pursue an interest in non-Western music, which began to influence his own work only after he destroyed his early compositions. Affected by the music of his Armenian heritage and his own lifelong mysticism, he composed some 500 works in addition to the 1,000 or more early pieces he destroyed in 1943. His compositions included some 60 symphonies and many other orchestral works, often on sacred themes, sometimes incorporating aleatory or natural sounds, as in And God Created Great Whales document.writeln(AAMB2); More on "Alan Hovhaness" from the 32 Volume Hovhaness, Alan - American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent, notable for his eclectic choice of material from non-European traditions. Hovhaness, Alan

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Alan Hovhaness aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Alan Hovhaness 8. M¤rz in Somerville Massachusetts 21. Juni in Seattle ) war ein US-amerikanischer Komponist armenisch schottischer Abstammung. Inhaltsverzeichnis Leben Werk Werke f¼r Orchester Werke f¼r Blasorchester ... Bearbeiten Leben Hovhaness wurde als Alan Vaness Chakmakjian geboren. Seine Eltern waren Haroutioun Hovanes Chakmakjian, Chemieprofessor am Tufts College , und Madeleine Scott. Nach dem Tod seiner Mutter am 3. Oktober 1930 verwendete er den Zunamen "Hovaness" in Erinnerung an seinen GroŸvater v¤terlicherseits, und ¤nderte ihn offiziell etwa 1940 zu "Hovhaness". Der junge Alan zeigte von Kindheit an musikalisches Interesse, und beschloss im Alter von 14 Jahren, sich der Komposition zu widmen. Er studierte am Tufts College und sp¤ter am New England Conservatory of Music bei Frederick Converse Etwa ab 1940 erwachte sein Interesse an armenischer Kultur und Musik; damals wirkte er als Organist an der St. James Armenian Apostolic Church in Watertown (Massachusetts) . In dieser Zeit zerst¶rte er viele von fast 1000 bis dahin entstandenen Kompositionen. 1942 gewann er ein Stipendium f¼r Tanglewood , um in der Meisterklasse von Bohuslav Martinů zu studieren. Allerdings erlitt Martinů kurz zuvor einen schweren Unfall, der es ihm unm¶glich machte, seinen Lehrverpflichtungen nachzukommen. Stattdessen wurde das Kompositionsseminar von

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www.hovhaness.com Optimised for Internet Explorer The online resource for American composer Alan Hovhaness 'My purpose is to create music, not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing' An important 20th Century American composer whose music anticipated many future musical trends and aesthetic values. Rejecting the vogues of Americana, serialism and atonality, he pioneered contemporary development of archaic models and was amongst the earliest to integrate Western musical idioms with Eastern ones, making him a pioneer of East-West 'fusion' decades before the term 'World Music' had been coined. Introduced 'ad libitum' or aleatoric counterpoint from 1944, almost two decades before the European avant garde. From the 1940s, his employment of incantatory melodies over static harmonies, plus use of rhythmic cycles, presaged the Minimalist vogue of the 1960s/70s. The visionary and mystical nature 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 due to his aloofness from the establishment, and also because scholars have not looked for radical developments in post-War music which is broadly tonal and deliberately appealing.

16. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Hovhaness Includes biography and discography with recommended listening. http://www.classical.net/music/comp.lst/hovhaness.html

The Internet's Premier Classical Music Source Home Basic Repertoire Composers Books and Scores ... Music Links Related Links CD / DVD Reviews by Robert Clements Find CDs Amazon UK Germany Canada ... CD Universe Find DVDs Amazon UK Germany Canada ... Video Universe Find Scores / Sheet Music Sheet Music Plus Musicnotes Alan Hovhaness Website Modern Repertoire ... Composer Index Affiliates Alan Hovhaness (b. Somerville, Massachusetts (USA); 8 March 1911) 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 In the United States, at least, Hovhaness has generally been considered a popular composer; although in most other territories, his music is usually only available in recorded form. As more of his music becomes available on disc, it can only be hoped that non-American ensembles will be more willing to take on the subtle challenges of his music. ~

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The World's Leading Classical Music Label Naxos Worldwide Sites: Choose Country Global Site Australia Canada China Denmark Finland France Germany Hong Kong Japan Korea New Zealand Norway Sweden UK USA E-mail Password New Releases Artists Composers Labels ... H HOVHANESS, ALAN BIOGRAPHY Alan Hovhaness is one of Americas most idiosyncratic musical pioneers who sought a musical reconciliation between East and West, spiritual and mundane, long before it was fashionable to do so. Born near Boston, Massachusetts to an Armenian father and a mother of Scottish ancestry, his upbringing was more or less conventionally American. As a boy he composed in secret, once remarking "My family thought writing music was abnormal, so they would confiscate my music if they caught me in the act." An early musical mentor and personal friend was Sibelius, from whom Hovhaness perhaps acquired his love of long lyrical melodies. The composers receptivity to Armenian culture was reignited around 1940 when he became organist at Bostons Armenian cathedral. Here he was exposed to early liturgical Armenian music as well as the works of the composer-priest Komitas Vartabed. From 1944 began a series of works with Armenian titles or subject matter. Essentially comprising Hovhaness's Armenian period', these bold works have huge monodic melodies over static drones somewhat foreshadowing the Minimalists of the late 1960s. Hovhaness himself described this music as giant melodies in simple and complex modes around stationery or movable tonal centres". From 1944 too, he introduced his spirit murmur, where musical phrases are repeated over and over by each player independently to produce a buzzing textural blur. This so called

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19. Alan Hovhaness Interview alan hovhaness is one of the most special, and it s comforting to be able to say that his name and music are gaining more and more friends all the time. http://www.bruceduffie.com/hovx.html

Alan Hovhaness The Composer in Conversation with Bruce Duffie In a career which is now, in 2005, thirty years in length, I've had the wonderful opportunity to meet and talk with many of the musicians who are responsible for creating and presenting the greatest forms of music. [For a full list, see this page on my personal website.] Some are very well known to both the specialist and the general public. Others are major figures within a select circle of aficionados, and some, though important to the art, remain almost completely unknown outside their own community of friends and students. Alan Hovhaness is one of the most special, and it's comforting to be able to say that his name and music are gaining more and more friends all the time. He was always known among anyone who ever heard his music, for it's experience will resonate within the heart and mind. A couple of major works, such as Mysterious Mountain and the startlingly wonderful And God Created Great Whales were presented in major places early on, and achieved recordings that never fail to surprise and delight - and win new converts to his very personal sound world. These days, performances and recordings are happening more and more, so new generations are able to enter and fall under his spell. Rather than place an extended biography here, visit the

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Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP ALAN... DVD VHS CD IMDb Alan Hovhaness Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes by TV series titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with biography contact official sites Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips Alan Hovhaness advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Overview Date of Birth: 8 March Somerville, Massachusetts, USA more Date of Death: 21 June , Seattle, Washington, USA (stomach ailment) more Trivia: Composer-in-residence with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra from 1966 until... more Alternate Names: Alan Hovaness Filmography Jump to filmography as: Composer Soundtrack Composer: I Remember Theodore Roethke TV episode Nehru: Man of Two Worlds TV episode Narcissus Soundtrack: Alaska: Spirit of the Wild Additional Details Genres: Documentary Short STARmeter: since last week why?

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