Yerevan hosted first concert of Ian GillanMarch 26, 2010 - 22:15 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - The first out of two concerts of the rock legend, lead singer of Deep Purple Ian Gillan was held in Yerevan, at the Aram Khachaturian Philharmonic Hall with the State Symphony Orchestra of Armenia. It's wrong and inappropriate to ask "Well, how was the concert?", because the concert took place and that is the most important thing. No matter, that in the first part the hall was empty by 30 per cent. Perhaps, these 30 per cent attended a national award ceremony, which took place nearby, at the Opera House. During the first few songs the voice of Gillan was not heard at all. But in the end all present began to sing "Smoooooook on the woooooteeeer ", to which Gillan said "Fantastic!". It is worth mentioning, that orchestra played a few works of Aram Khachaturian before Gillan's performance and the concert of Mahler at the beginning of the second part... Probably in order to "attach" rock fans to the art. 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 | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |