Hovhaness, Alan, 1911–2000
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Hovhaness, Alan, 1911–2000
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Chakmakjian, Alan Hovhaness, 1911-
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Hovhaness Chakmakjian, Alan Scott 1911-2000
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Hovhaness Chakmakjian, Alan Scott 1911-2000
Hovanesu, Aran 1911-2000
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Chakmakjian, Alan Hovhaness.
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Hovhaness, Alan S. 1911-2000
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Hovaness, Alan Scott, 1911-
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Hovanesu, Aran
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Hovhaness, Alan Scott 1911-2000
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American composer of Armenian-Scottish descent.
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Composed 1941. Symphony no. 2, op. 132 is a different work. Composer's note: Old listing of early work, never performed, probably the only existing copy now.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Based on Armenian mountain village tunes. Composed 1944. First performance Boston, 4 June 1944, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Written for the 1500th annivesary of the Holy Wars of St. Vartan, an Armenian folk hero martyred in 451 A.D. Composed 1950. First performance Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 March 1951, members of the New York Philharmonic, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Urardu or Urartu was the ninth century B.C. kingdom later to become Armenia. Composed 1944. First performance Jordan Hall, Boston, 4 February 1945, in a concert of original compositions of creative Armenian music, the composer conducting, Philip Kaplan soloist. Revised 1948.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1950. First performance Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 March 1951, members of the New York Philharmonic, the composer conducting, Maro Ajemian piano, and Anahid Ajemian violin. Also entitled: Concerto for Trumpet, piano, violin and strings.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1945. First performance Symphony Hall, Boston, 10 March 1956, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1949. First performance Albany, New York, 1 May 1949, Albany Symphony Orchestra, Edgar Curtis conductor, the composer as soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1954; revised Dec. 17, 1956. Commissioned by a two piano team which divorced during composition of work. Renamed "Symphony no. 45" by the composer.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Hovhaness attended NEC in 1932, studying with Converse--Baker's Biographical Dictionary.
Composed 1955. First performance Houston, Texas, 31 October, 1955, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Composed 1950. First performance Eastman Theatre, Rochester, New York, 7 May 1954, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Herman Genhart conductor, Morris Secon soloist. Dedicated to Carlo and Aghavni Uomini.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent.
Born in Massachusetts in 1911, Alan Hovhaness is a composer of Armenian and Scottish descent; and a distinctive figure in contemporary music. He is prolific, with an opus tally presently around 400.
Composed 1948. First performance Town Hall, New York, 6 March 1949, the composer conducting, Anahid Ajemian soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection.
Alan Hovhaness was a prolific American composer whose works were influenced by both Western and non-Western musical traditions. He composed over sixty symphonies including Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain, which was premiered by Leopold Stokowski in his debut with the Houston Symphony in 1955. Hovhaness also wrote incidental music for Clifford Odets' Broadway play The Flowering Peach and composed music for several of Martha Graham's choreographic works. In 1952 he met Judith Malina, co-director of the Living Theatre, through his wife Serafina Ferrante Hovhaness, who performed with the company. Following their meeting Hovhaness performed benefit concerts and composed incidental music for the Living Theatre production of Strindberg's Ghost Sonata.
Judith Malina, actor, writer, and director, co-directed the Living Theatre, a New York-based avant-garde theatre company, with her husband Julian Beck from 1947 until Beck's death in 1985. Malina and company member Hanon Reznikov (who became her second husband) co-directed the company until his death in 2008, after which she assumed sole directorship.
Alan Hovhaness was a prolific American composer whose works were influenced by both Western and non-Western musical traditions. He composed over sixty symphonies including Symphony No. 2, Mysterious Mountain, which was premiered by Leopold Stokowski in his debut with the Houston Symphony in 1955. Hovhaness also wrote incidental music for Clifford Odets' Broadway play The Flowering Peach and composed music for several of Martha Graham's choreographic works. In 1952 he met Judith Malina, co-director of the Living Theatre, through his wife Serafina Ferrante Hovhaness, who performed with the company. Following their meeting Hovhaness performed benefit concerts and composed incidental music for the Living Theatre production of Strindberg's Ghost Sonata .
Judith Malina, actor, writer, and director, co-directed the Living Theatre, a New York-based avant-garde theatre company, with her husband Julian Beck from 1947 until Beck's death in 1985. Malina and company member Hanon Reznikov (who became her second husband) co-directed the company until his death in 2008, after which she assumed sole directorship.
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Carillon music
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Flute, timpani, violin with string orchestra
Folk songs, Armenian
Izler Solomon Collection
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