March 8 - Alan Hovhaness (The Musical Birthday Series, 3rd Annual Cycle)

Alan Hovhaness (8 March 1911 – 21 June 2000) was a prolific American composer of Armenian descent.

[Previous entries for March 8th may be read here: C. P. E. Bach (2019) and Carlo Gesualdo.]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eclectic

Alan Hovhaness wrote oodles of pieces,

(I’d give you a list, but the list never ceases),

With dozens of symphonies, hundreds of opuses,

It’s a wonder he managed his multiple focuses.

Incessantly scribbling without neurasthenia,

He somehow avoided acute schizophrenia

While tapping the East, and the West, and Armenia.

 

 

 

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