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| Title of audio medium |
Alan Hovhaness Majnun Symphony |
| Article no. |
33000399 |
| Subcategory |
String and symphony orchestra |
| Format |
CD (audio CD) |
| Performer |
John Alldis Choir; Wilbraham; National Phil Orch of London |
| Composer |
Hovhaness, Alan |
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| Brief description |
Alan Hovhaness Chakmakjian, one of America's most prolific and original composers, has written over 400 works, including more than 60 symphonies. He studied piano with Adelaide Proctor and Heinrich Gebhard, and composition with Frederick Converse at the New England Conservatory. Later, he was awarded two honorary doctorates (from the University of Rochester and from Bates College) and two composition fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. He spent a year in India on a Fulbright scholarship and then has a Rockefeller grant for musical research in Japan and Korea. His spiritual teacher was Hermon DiGiovanno, a Greek mystic painter. In 1943, DiGiovanno guided him into the ancient world of Armenia, Greece, Egypt and India. Hovhaness destroyed nearly all his early music and trained an amateur string ensemble to play his new music introducing, in 1944, his "Oriental Aleatory" or "Spirit Murmur" which became widely imitated in 1959 and 1960. Later Masatoro Togi, a great Gagaku musician of Japan, became his teacher who taught him to play ancient Japanese music and instruments. Performing the pieces on this CD are the National Philharmonic Orchestra of London and John Alldis Choir conducted by Alan Hovhaness; Martyn Hill, tenor; John Wilbraham, trumpet; and Sidney Sax, violin. |
| Year of publication |
1987 |
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| Available |
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| Track title |
Performer |
| Beloved |
National PhilhOrch of London; Wilbraham (trumpet in B-flat); StrO) |
| Celestial Beloved |
National PhilhOrch of London; Sax (violin); StrO) |
| Distracted Lover |
National PhilhOrch ofLondon; Choir; Hill; Wilbraham; (tenor vocal solo); Trp; StrO) |
| Letters in the Sand |
NationalPhilhOrchofLondon; JohnAlldisChoir; Wilbraham (choir); Trp; StrO) |
| Majnun |
National PhilOrch of London; Wilbraham; Sax (violin); Trp; StrO) |
| Majnun Answered |
JohnAlldisChoir; Wilbraham; NationalPhilOrch of London (choir); Trp; StrO) |
| Majnun's Love Song |
National PhilOrch ofLondon; JohnAlldisChoir; Hill; Wilbraham (tenor vocal solo); Chor; Trp; StrO) |
| Mysterious Beloved |
National PhilhOrch ofLondon; JohnAlldisChoir; Wilbraham (choir); Trp; StrO) |
| Sword-Wind |
National Philh Orch of London (orchestra) |
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