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Composer of the Week: Hovhaness

on BBC Radio 3

5/5. Around 1971 Alan Hovhaness entered the final period of his compositional life with a diverse range of work articulating his concern for environmental issues and a desire for spiritual enlightenment. Donald Macleod concludes his series on this idiosyncratic American composer with a look at some of these late works.
And God Created Great Whales, Op 229 No I; Symphony No 22 (City of Light);
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam , Op 282
A Rose Tree Blossoms Repeated from Friday at 12 noon

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Alan Hovhaness
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Donald MacLeod
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Omar Khayyam

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