She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
ALAN HOVHANESSI was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.
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My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
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Well, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
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My mother’s background was Scottish.
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I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
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There is nothing like practice.
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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.
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I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
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The composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
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The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
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It’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
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To attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.
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I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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