The composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
ALAN HOVHANESSI did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
ALAN HOVHANESSAs well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
ALAN HOVHANESSBut I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
ALAN HOVHANESSI found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
ALAN HOVHANESSI 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.
ALAN HOVHANESSI’ve always regarded nature as the clothing of God.
ALAN HOVHANESSThere is nothing like practice.
ALAN HOVHANESSI was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano.
ALAN HOVHANESSThis is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
ALAN HOVHANESSIt’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
ALAN HOVHANESSTo me, atonality is against nature. There is a center to everything that exists.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy mother’s background was Scottish.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
ALAN HOVHANESS