March 12, 8:00 pm
March 13, 6:00 pm
First Pres Santa Monica     

Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000) Centenary
  Prayer for St. Gregory for trumpet & organ (1946)
Tigran Mansurian (b. 1939)
  Havik for viola & percussion (1998)
Vache Sharafyan (b. 1966)
  Blooming Sounds for solo violin (2005)
Hovhaness
  Sonata for Guitar & Harp "Spirit of Trees" (1983)

Mansurian
  Lachrymae for saxophone & viola (1999)
  Testament for string quartet (2004)
Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978)
  Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1932)
Richard Yardumian (1917-85)/arr. V. Sharafyan
  Armenian Suite for 13 instruments (1936/2011) World Premiere

Marc Lowenstein, conductor
Denali  Quartet
Michele Zukovsky, clarinet
Joanne Pearce Martin, piano
David Washburn, trumpet
Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola
Lynn Vartan, percussion
Marsha Dickstein, harp
John Schneider, guitar
Doug Masek, saxophone
Sarah Danielle, organ
Marina Manukian, violin
Dzovig Markarian, piano
Andrea Moore, percussion

This concert of Armenian and Armenian-American music celebrates the generation born between 1903 and 1917: Khachaturian living in Moscow, Hovhaness in Seattle, and Yardumian in Philadelphia; and two generations of brilliant composers now living in Yerevan.

The Jacaranda-commissioned arrangement of Armenian Suite restores an important piece of cultural history to the concert stage One of its movements became the radio theme music for Voice of America behind the Iron Curtain in the 1950s.