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

Alan Hovhaness
  Prayer for St. Gregory (1946) Centenary
Tigran Mansurian
  Havik (1998)
Vache Sharafyan
  Blooming Sounds (2005)
Hovhaness
  Sonata for Guitar & Harp"Spirit of Trees" (1983)
Mansurian
  Lachrymae (1999); Testament (2004)
Aram Khachaturian
  Trio for Clarinet, Violin and Piano (1932)
Yardumian/arr. V. Sharafyan
  Armenian Suite (1936/2011) World Premiere

Mark Alan Hilt, conductor & organ
Denali  Quartet
Movses Pogossian, violin
Michelle Zukovsky, clarinet
Vicki Ray, piano
David Washburn, trumpet
Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola
Lyn Vartan, percussion
John Schneider, guitar
LuAnn Neal, harp
Ben Wendel, saxophone
                                 
On the one hand, this gatherum 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, wile on the other two generations of brilliant composers now living in Yerevan. This Jacaranda-commissioned arrangement restores an important piece of cultural history to the concert stage, having provided the radio theme music for Voice of America.