 Ministry of Culture celebrates Old New Year in Chamber Music HallJanuary 12, 2010 - 21:35 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Komitas Chamber Music Hall hosted "Winter night's dream" children's program, organized in celebration of the Old New Year. The program was initiated by RA Ministry of Culture. "We celebrate every New Year with similar events, trying to keep this tradition alive," RA Culture Minister Hasmik Poghosyan stated. Children's Chamber Orchestra of UNICEF, guided by conductor Sergey Smbatyan, performed music compositions of Komitas, Piazzolla and others. The event was attended by RA President Serzh Sargsyan and First Lady Rita Sargsyan. The Children's Chamber Orchestra of UNICEF is a unique project. Its aim is to play child rights on musical instruments, to communicate important messages on child rights through the inspirational language of music. Established with the financial support of Beeline, one of Armenia's leading telecommunication companies, as well as through efforts of the Tchaykovsky Musical School, Vladimir Spivakov Foundation and the Ministry of Culture in Armenia, the first in the region Children's Chamber Orchestra will also have a fundraising mission and will help UNICEF to mobilise resources for the cause of Armenian children.   Top stories 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”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Armenia border residents dissatisfied with delimitation  Residents Kirants are dissatisfied with the results of the delimitation of the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan.“Great success”: Pashinyan pleased with new border protocol Pashinyan has described the signing by Armenia and Azerbaijan of a protocol on delimitation in Tavush as “a great success”.Armenia, Azerbaijan sign protocol on demarcation coordinates Armenia’s government took on May 15 another step towards handing over four border areas to Azerbaijan.U.S. warns Georgia not to side with Moscow against the west Georgia has been warned by the U.S. not to become an adversary of the west by falling back in line with Moscow. |
