I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
ALAN HOVHANESSI found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older.
ALAN HOVHANESSTo attempt what old Chinese painters called ‘spirit resonance’ in melody and sound.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.
ALAN HOVHANESSThe planets have the sun, the earth, the moon.
ALAN HOVHANESSThis is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of.
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 HOVHANESSThe composer…joins Heaven and Earth with threads of sounds.
ALAN HOVHANESSMy mother’s background was Scottish.
ALAN HOVHANESSI did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.
ALAN HOVHANESSIt’s hard for me to think of others because I’m not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.
ALAN HOVHANESSAs well as from the beginning, although I didn’t know anything about it.
ALAN HOVHANESSShe came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.
ALAN HOVHANESSWell, my grandfather was a minister and sort of Protestant, and this was rather depressing to me.
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 HOVHANESSMy purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing.
ALAN HOVHANESS