My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
ALAN HOVHANESSI think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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I was born in Somerville, but I don’t remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.
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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.
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My mother’s background was Scottish.
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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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I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.
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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
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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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The planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
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She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
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I’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
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As well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
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There is nothing like practice.
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To me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
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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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