Selected 2015 Hovhaness Performances/Broadcasts
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Date Performers Link Location Program Includes
February
Tuesday, Feb 23, 7pm Sahan Arzruni - Resurrection Piano Recital (100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide) Details Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, Aram KhatchaturianMuseum, Yerevan,
Armenia.
Pastoral (1952), Laona (1956), Yenovk (1947/51), Achtamar (1947,) plus works by Babadjanian, Kara-Mourza, Komitas and Khachaturian.
March
Friday, March 20, 7pm Rev. Fr. Hovhan Leon Khoja-Eynatyan, marimba soloist. Details   630 2nd Avenue (at 34th Street), New York, NY 10016, United States. Admission: $20 Students and seniors: $10; Under 12's free. For more information, call (212) 293-1286 Holy Mystery of the Martyrs Op.251 (1971) in an arrangement for marimba and string quartet.
April
Wednesday, Apr 15, 1pm South Shore Orchestra; Troy Webdell, Music Director and Conductor Details Memorial Opera House,
104 Indiana Ave, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA.
Oror, Op.1 (1926), plus works by Piazzolla, Granados, Rodriguez, and Cirque Du Soleil
June
Friday, Jun 5, 7.30pm South Shore Orchestra; Troy Webdell, Music Director and Conductor Details Memorial Opera House,
104 Indiana Ave, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA.
Storm on Mt. Wildcat, Op.2 No.2 (1931/36), plus Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6
July
Friday, July 10, 7.30pm City Wind Orchestra; conductor: Shea Lolin Details St. Katharine Free Church, Leadenhall Street,
London EC3A 3BP, UK
Symphony No.23, 'Ani', Op. 249 for wind orchestra (1972), plus Armenian music by Goff Richards, Aram Khachaturian, Alfred Reed
Wednesday, July 15, 7pm Boston Landmarks Orchestra; Musical Director: Christopher Wilkins Details DCR Hatch Memorial Shell, Charles River Esplanade, Boston, MA, USA And God Created Great Whales for orchestra and taped whale sounds (1970), plus music by Francine Trester, Mendelssohn, Kevin Puts and Debussy
October
Friday,
Oct 16, 8pm
'American Visions': Frost Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Sleeper conductor.Simone Dinnerstein, piano. Details   Location And God Created Great Whales for orchestra and taped whale sounds (1970), plus music by Howard Hanson (Symphony No.5) and Philip Lasser’s (The Circle and the Child).
Sunday,
Oct 18, 3pm
'Resilient Voices: 1915-2015' Boston Modern Orchestra Project; Gil Rose, conductor. Terry Everson, trumpet. Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Boston University Marsh Chapel Choir. Details   Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, Boston, USA Khrimian Hairig Op.49 (1944)
plus music by Komitas/Aslamazyan (Cloudy Sky), Betty Olivero (Neharót Neharót), Tigran Mansurian (Requiem).
Saturday, Oct 24, 7.30pm Knox-Galesburg Symphony; Bruce Polay conductor. Details   Orpheum Theatre, Galesburg, Illinois, USA Symphony No.2 Mysterious Mountain, Op.132 (1955)
plus music by Zyman (Concerto No.1), Polay (Solemnity), Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue)
November
Sunday, Nov 1, 7pm Sahan Arzruni, piano   Salle Aram Khatchatourian, 2855, Victor Doré, Montreal, Canada Yenovk, Lake of Van Sonata
plus music by Babadjanian, Kara-Mourza, Komitas and Khachaturian
Sunday, Nov 15 Sahan Arzruni, piano   Armenian Embassy to the United States, Washington DC, USA Yenovk
plus music by Babadjanian, Komitas and Khachaturian
December
Friday, Dec 11, 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra; Sakari Oramo, Chief Conductor Details Barbican Centre, Barbican, London, UK Symphony No.2 Mysterious Mountain, Op.132 (1955)
plus music by Andrew Norman (Switch) and Straus (An Alpine Symphony)
Friday, Dec 18, 7.30pm South Shore Orchestra; Troy Webdell, Music Director and Conductor Details Memorial Opera House,
104 Indiana Ave, Valparaiso, Indiana 46383, USA
Artik Op.78 for horn and strings (1948), plus popular and sacred music of the season