08-31-2016, 11:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-31-2016, 11:38 PM by Eric the Green.)
Alan Hovhannes is a great modern composer, who does not do crappy modernist experimental stuff, but real music. This is one of his finest works, written in 1955, Symphony #2, Mysterious Mountain. He wrote 65 other symphonies after this, writing into the 1990s.
The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "....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."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_N...Hovhaness)
The Boston Globe music critic Richard Buell wrote: "....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."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Hovhaness
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_N...Hovhaness)