#hovhaness

[symphonybracket]

battle of the twos 🥊2️⃣💢

Which 2nd symphony is your favorite?

Mahler 2

Rachmaninoff 2

Beethoven 2

Vaughan Williams 2

Borodin 2

Sibelius 2

Khachaturian 2

Brahms 2

Hovhaness 2

Something else

Voting ended onOct 5, 2024

[arkhangelske]

We are in a very dangerous period. We are in danger of destroying ourselves, and I have a great fear about this ... The older generation is ruling ruthlessly. I feel that this is a terrible threat to our civilization. It's the greed of huge companies and huge organizations which control life in a kind of a brutal way ... It's gotten worse and worse, somehow, because physical science has given us more and more terrible deadly weapons, and the human spirit has been destroyed in so many cases, so what's the use of having the most powerful country in the world if we have killed the soul. It's of no use.

Alan Hovhaness, Ararat Magazine 1971

[symphonybracket]

The symphony bracket is here!

This is how voting will proceed:

Beginning on September 1, one poll (2 symphonies) will be posted per day. The poll duration will be 7 days.

The reason for the slow posting will be to give voters time to listen, in case one or both symphonies is new to them!

There are 64 symphonies in the bracket, meaning 32 polls.

Happy voting!

Left Side:

Mahler 2 vs Prokofiev 5

Bruckner 8 vs Mozart 10

Mahler 10 vs Schubert 8

Pejačević 1 vs Beethoven 9

Shostakovich 7 vs Glière 3

Beethoven 5 vs Tchaikovsky 6

Mahler 1 vs Sibelius 2

Beethoven 8 vs Vaughan Williams 2

Copland 3 vs Beach Gaelic

Beethoven 6 vs Dvořák 7

Borodin 2 vs Saint-Saëns 3

Mendelssohn 4 vs Beethoven 3

Rachmaninoff 2 vs Kalinnikov 2

Prokofiev 1 vs Rachmaninoff 1

Emilie Mayer 2 vs Vaughan Williams 7

Haydn 75 vs Dvořák 8

Right Side:

Mahler 5 vs Polymath 1

Corigliano 1 vs Ives Universe

Price 1 vs Shostakovich 5

Mahler 6 vs Sibelius 5

Prokofiev 7 vs Mendelssohn 5

Shostakovich 11 vs Mahler 3

Shostakovich 9 vs Ives 4

Berlioz Symphony Fantastique vs Britten Simple Symphony

Vaughan Williams 1 vs Tchaikovsky 4

Shostakovich 10 vs Hovhaness 4

Beethoven 7 vs Grant Still 2

Dvořák 9 vs Brahms 1

Brahms 2 vs Maslanka 4

Brahms 3 vs Tchaikovsky 1

Tchaikovsky 5 vs Mozart 40

[symphonybracket]

Which symphony do you prefer?

Shostakovich 10

Hovhaness 4

Voting ended onOct 3, 2023

YouTube Links: Shostakovich 10, Hovhaness 4

Submitter's Comments:

Shostakovich 10 (1 submittal)

The second movement omg it’s intense but it’s sooo good. Like Shostakovich channels all his rage against Stalin into a couple of minutes and it’s so good and genuinely terrifying - I was shaking when I saw it live last year

Hovhaness 4 (1 submittal)

It SLAPS SO HARD

[theflamingones]

Alan Hovhaness - Ghazal No. 1, Op. 36, No. 1

[countryofthecanyons]

And God created blue whales

Unfortunately, they didn’t survive after landing in this spot. 

[wedontknowwhattocallourselves]

The classical music station I listen to just switched programs for the evening. It’s starting with Holst’s Venus, and promised Hovhaness and Hanson. I’ve watched an episode of Planet Earth and I’m taking down biology notes. This is my quintessential calm night.

[fabermusic-mfn]