‘Classical Ottoman Music and Armenians’ book published in IstanbulDecember 24, 2010 - 13:48 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Titled ‘Classical Ottoman Music and Armenians’, Aram Kerovpyan’s book encourages the youth to learn about the beauty of the past. “All these figures show the richness of our land,” said Yasar Kurt, secretary-general of the Istanbul 2010 European Capital of Culture Agency, which supported the publishing of the book. “This is an important resource book going back 200 years ago and showing us who carried Turkish classical music to the present,” he said. Kerovpyan, who was born in Istanbul but has lived in Paris for 33 years, said that not only Armenian but also Greek and Jewish composers, made great contribution to Turkish classical music, Hurriyet Daily News reported. Top stories Paris Center Pompidou Musée National d’Art Moderne will host the screening of Sergei Parajanov’s "Triptych" on December 15. The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. Partner news | Armenia to participate in key EU meeting for the first time ever National Assembly speaker Alen Simonyan has said that Armenia will for the first time participate in the Conference. U.S. reacts to Russia’s criticism of upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting Matthew Miller has weighed in on Russia’s criticism of an upcoming Armenia-EU-U.S. meeting. Lavrov sees ‘collapse’ of Russia’s ties with Armenia Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has underscored heightened tensions between Russia and Armenia. Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine |