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Hovhaness, Alan
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Hovhaness, Alan (
b Somerville, Mass., 1911;
d 2000). Amer. composer, conductor, and organist of Armenian and Scot. descent. Worked in Boston 1940–7, taught at Boston Cons. 1948–52, then settled in NY. Prolific composer, deeply interested in Eastern mus. style, which embraces aleatory procedures as in
Lousadzak (Coming of Light) 1944, combines Western elements with modal harmony, Eastern rhythms, and the exotica of Chinese and Balinese instrs. Works incl. 63 syms.; 10 operas;
Mysterious Mountain, orch.;
Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, xyl., orch. (1965);
And God Created Great Whales (1970) for humpbacked whale solo (on tape) and orch.; choral works; chamber mus.
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Composer Alan Hovhaness Profiled
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 7/17/1994; 700+ words
; ...LYDEN, Host: 83-year-old Alan Hovhaness is one of this country' s most...MARCIE SILLMAN, Reporter: Alan Hovhaness walks slowly with the aid of a...music that pours out of him. ALAN HOVHANESS, Composer: [excerpt from Alan...
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Música: Alan Hovhaness 1911-2000.(compositor; incluye nota sobre Juan Soriano, artista)(TT: Music: Alan Hovhaness, 1911-2000.)(TA: composer; includes note on Juan Soriano, artist)(Columna)
Magazine article from: Proceso; 9/3/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...animista: aquella compuesta por Alan Hovhaness, el patriarca. Naci en Masachusetts...doctrinario insidioso, para enjuiciar a Hovhaness. Cuando celebramos sus 80 aos...concierto vespertino, el rostro de Alan Hovhaness, sonriente, tena un aura de...
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Obituary: Alan Hovhaness
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 6/26/2000; ; 700+ words
; ALAN HOVHANESS was one of the most prolific composers...think, until you consider that in 1943 Hovhaness destroyed almost all of his earlier works...something in the soul. And at all times, Hovhaness's music sounds like no one else's...
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Composer Alan Hovhaness Dies at 89
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/22/2000; 490 words
; AP Online 06-22-2000 Composer Alan Hovhaness Dies at 89 SEATTLE (AP) -- Alan Hovhaness, a prolific composer who melded Western and Asian musical styles to create a unique melodic...
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Composer Alan Hovhaness, 89; Music Melded Western, Asian Styles
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/24/2000; 485 words
; Alan Hovhaness, 89, a prolific composer...tremendous thunderstorm." Mr. Hovhaness wrote more than 400 pieces...folk Mass. He was born Alan Vaness Chamakjian, in Somerville...He took the last name Hovhaness when he was in his twenties...
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In memoriam: Alan Hovhaness
Magazine article from: Musical Times; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Alan Hovhaness, an American composer of Scottish-Armenian descent, wrote music...fraternal spirit, Hovhaness's time may still be yet to come. Alan Hovhaness (Alan Vaness Chakmakjian): born Somerville, Massachusetts, 8 March...
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Alan Hovhaness
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 7/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; Alan Hovhaness, composer Born: 8 March...Seattle, Washington, aged 89 ALAN Hovhaness was a remarkably prolific...past decade. He was born Alan Vaness Chakmakjian, and adopted the name Hovhaness in honour of a grandfather...
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Alan Hovhaness Premieres in Washington, DC
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 2/28/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...daunting task it was to interpret Alan Hovhaness, William Cahn, and Tilo Medek...accomplished artists in their own right. Alan Hovhaness' piece "Khorhoort Nahadagats...the early years of his career, Alan Hovhaness was an organist in an Armenian...
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Preview of Up-Coming Story on Alan Hovhaness
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 7/17/1994; 264 words
; ...music by Hovhaness] When composer Alan Hovhaness was in his late teens, he questioned...write another kind of music. ALAN HOVHANESS, Composer: I believe very much...a profile of 83-year-old Alan Hovhaness. The composer is finally getting...
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A Personal Remembrance of Alan Hovhaness
Newspaper article from: Armenian Reporter, The; 7/8/2000; ; 581 words
; ...2000 A Personal Remembrance of Alan Hovhaness It was Wednesday midnight, June...the New York Times, I knew. Hovhaness had been especially on my mind...interview. I only knew the name Alan Hovhaness - a tall, Lincolnesque figure...
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Hovhaness, Alan
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
Alan Hovhaness Composer First Success with Lousadzak Called “ Major Pioneer ” When classical composer Alan Hovhaness died in 2000, he left a legacy that reflected both his prodigious composing...
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Alan Hovhaness
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Alan Hovhaness , 1911-2000, American composer, b. Somerville, Mass., as Alan Vaness Chakmakjian. Hovhaness was of Armenian and Scottish descent, and many of his works...
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Bonfiglio, Robert
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...of John B. Sebastian of the Lovin ’ Spoonful). Both had commissioned harmonica concerti from composers Alan Hovhaness, Henry Cowell, Alexander Tcherepnin, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Darius Milhaud, and Malcolm...
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Merce Cunningham
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Les Noces. He continued working with music by experimentalist composers such as Erik Satie, Pierre Schaeffer, and Alan Hovhaness, as well as with Cage. Cunningham also danced to sounds produced solely by his own voice: grunts, shrieks, squeals...
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Henry Dixon Cowell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...numerous musical subjects and was an influential teacher whose many students included John Cage , George Gershwin , and Alan Hovhaness . In the late 1950s he and his ethnomusicologist wife traveled throughout the Middle East, India, and Japan collecting...
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