"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."
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Composers from the United StatesPianists from the United StatesPeople from ArmeniaMusicians from Boston
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Alan Hovhaness, Interview with Ararat Magazine, 1971.
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Alan Hovhaness
Alan Hovhaness (March 8, 1911 – June 21, 2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish ancestry.
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