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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.

It's hard for me to think of others because I'm not particularly in sympathy with the music of this century.


Alan Hovhaness  Alan Hovhaness
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Alan Hovhaness (/hoʊˈvɑːnɪs/;[1] March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer. He was one of the most prolific 20th-century composers, with his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers.[2] The true tally is well over 500 surviving works since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works.

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I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

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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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No, no, I didn't know him. He lost his mind around 1917 because of the tragedy of the Armenians.

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I did all kinds of things in order to earn a living.

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I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.

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This is not to say that the Scots are not fine people, but they were all sort of... 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. 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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