Alan Hovhaness - Symphony No. 50 (1/3) Mount St. Helens

Alan Hovhaness (Armenian: Ալան Յովհաննէս) (March 8, 1911 - June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish ancestry.

Symphony No. 50, Op. 360 "Mount St. Helens" (1983)

1. Andante

Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Alan Hovhaness

His music is accessible to the lay listener and often evokes a mood of mystery or contemplation. The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "Although he has been stereotyped as a self-consciously Armenian composer (rather as Ernest Bloch is seen as a Jewish composer), his output assimilates the music of many cultures. What may be most American about all of it is the way it turns its materials into a kind of exoticism. The atmosphere is hushed, reverential, mystical, nostalgic."

He was among the most prolific of 20th century composers, his official catalog comprising 67 numbered symphonies (surviving manuscripts indicate over 70) and 434 opus numbers. However, the true tally is well over 500 surviving works since many opus numbers comprise two or more distinct works.

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[shoeprich2012]

The horn part is lovely!

[jorgeajamesg]

Hovhaness became inmortal with this composition not knowed very much indeed

[youmoozyktube]

Divine...

[shallwethen]

I'm going there, I'm going everywhere.

[kaverilore]

morning wake up call - nice, gradual withdrawal from dreams, and then KABLOOEY! awakeness!

[NuclearGrape]

@dopeywonder Mhm

[dopeywonder]

@NuclearGrape what city seattle?

[NuclearGrape]

YEAH I WENT ON A FIELD TRIP TO HEAR THIS AWESOMENESS.

[ChalieChaplin]

love it love it love it!!!!!!!