HOVHANESS HUNDREDTH

posted by James Reel

Sorry I forgot to mention this earlier, but today (March 8) is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alan Hovhaness. Like Milhaud, Villa-Lobos and for that matter Vivaldi, he was perhaps too prolific for his own good, but, also like those other composers, at his best he had a highly distinctive sound (and one that went through a few transformations over the years, without ever becoming something unrecognizable as Hovhaness). We'll be playing a good bit of his music off and on through the day.