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- Alan Hovhaness
Symphony No. 22, Op. 236 (1970)
(City of Light)- C.F. Peters Corporation (World)
- 3(III:pic).2.2+bcl.2+cbn/4.3.3.1/timp.3perc/hp/str
- 21 min
Programme Note
This work was commissioned by the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in the year of Birmingham/Alabama's, centennial. A former conductor of that orchestra was the father of Hovhaness's wife at the time. The city of the title is, the composer explained, not Birmingham: "I was thinking of a milion lights, an imaginary city ..."
The shimmering first movement is majestic, and serene, while the following "Angel of Light" recalls a childhood experience. The third movement scherzo utilises a dance melody from the composer's childhood opera Lotus blossom. The finale is a 'hymn of praise".
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