{"id":49987,"date":"2023-09-14T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T20:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=49987"},"modified":"2023-09-14T22:07:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T20:07:24","slug":"the-city-of-a-thousand-and-one-cathedrals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-city-of-a-thousand-and-one-cathedrals\/","title":{"rendered":"The City of a Thousand and One Cathedrals"},"content":{"rendered":"Alan Hovhaness was exposed to the most varied influences when he created his symphonies. His music is transcultural and anticipates future togetherness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeople in the Old World often think that good music and eminent achievements can only come from the old Europe. This is certainly not true for popular music, but with composed symphonic music, the range remains narrow. At most, there may be a symphony by Charles Ives (1874\u20131954) as a typically American curiosity, not on a par with the body of symphonic music to be taken seriously. European audiences of symphonic concerts seem surprised that the New World yielded any music able to articulate itself boldly, free from the constraints of European post-war modernism even before Arvo P\u00e4rt (Estonia), Henryk G\u00f3recki (Poland), Giya Kanch<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Hovhaness was exposed to the most varied influences when he created his symphonies. His music is transcultural and anticipates future togetherness. People in the Old World often think that good music and eminent achievements can only come from the old Europe. This is certainly not true for popular music, but with composed symphonic music, the range remains narrow. At most, there may be a symphony by Charles Ives (1874\u20131954) as a typically American curiosity, not on a par with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9618,"featured_media":49449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8846,8841],"tags":[11368,8814],"class_list":["post-49987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-music","tag-2023-33-34-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}