Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

Of Armenian origins, he was the son of poor, hard scrabble immigrants who nonetheless did nothing to discourage his love of the folk tunes and folk music he heard around them. As Slonimsky and Kuhn (2000) point out "despite his interest, he did not study music or even learn to read it; and apart from listening, his sole experience of it was playing of simple bass parts on the tuba in his school band. Gradually, he became convinced that he was cut out to be a musician, and eventually turned up in Moscow seeking admission to the Gnessin School of Music" (Slonimsky & Kuhn, 2000, 88; Yuzefovich, 1985).

When Khachaturian's canon is discussed, the references to lyricism and romanticism are always mentioned. The Grove dictionary says "His unique musical idiom was indelibly marked by his Armenian heritage; his scores are noted for

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, to prepare us for the theme. It is surprising to hear these sonorities deployed in single rather than multiple registers and interacting in homophonic and polyphonic relationship to the harmonics of the violin G string. It is the subtlety of the context that lets the octatonic acoustics resonate and provide overtones of a (m-68) which bears the relational network of split pitches that are interacting in a closed system of chromatic associations which suggests almost a teleological unfolding and also predicts some of the major attenuations he will return to in later works. Theme One (m-68 et nolo) and his noted allegro lead to a celebration that both simulates and stimulates reversible states of stasis and timelessness serve to express spiritual ascension from the physical to the musical plane. Here we see a composer content with his ear and his magic, and yet not afraid to seek inspiration from non-Western music and from non-Western compositional techniques. In fact, this underlying theme can be echoed in the way in appears in the line with the second pas de deux from Spartacus. String Challenges of the Concerto An appearance of a second theme in a motet-like form speaks to his roots and passions of his Armenian-generat
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