Lousadzak Coming of Light by Alan Hovhaness Score - Sheet Music

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UPC: 680160422777.

Lousadzak is, according to the composer, a made-up Armenian word meaning, roughly, 'dawn of light') dates from 1945. I planned it as a piano concerto in one long movement, with music rising from the depths throughout the piece. I wrote it to play and conduct myself with an amateur orchestra. We played it in Boston in 1945, and my hands were so busy all the way that I couldn't give many cues. I'll never do that again! One of the audience members at the New York premiere of Lousadzak was the young composer Lou Harrison, who wrote: I remember the premiere of that work in Town Hall, and the enormous excitement that Alan's sudden appearance in New York produced. The intermission that followed was the closest I've ever been to one of those renowned artistic riots. In the lobby, the Chromaticists and the Americanists were carrying on at high decibels. What had touched it off, of course, was the fact that here came a man from Boston whose obviously beautiful and fine music had nothing to do with either camp and was in fact its own very wonderful thing to begin with. My guest John Cage and I were very excited, and I dashed off to the lamented Herald Tribune and wrote a rave review while John went back to the Green Room to meet Alan.