Komitas Chamber Choir to mark composer's 140th birthday with series of concertsMarch 4, 2009 - 22:10 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Komitas Chamber Choir will mark the composer's 140th birthday with series of concerts in the countries where Komitas lived or worked.Besides Armenian towns, the choir will tour Germany, France, Switzerland and Italy. "The Armenian spiritual music was represented to the West thanks to Komitas," music expert Mher Navoyan said. Head of the chamber choir Robert Mikaelyan said they are planning to release a DC of Komitas' music in their performance. Turkey was excluded from the list of countries to be toured. "Komitas is a victim of the Armenian Genocide. How can we give a concert in the perpetrator country, which denies this crime against humanity, demolishes or appropriates Armenian cultural heritage?" Navoyan said. 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 | 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. Power of One Dram sums up two-year program with Teach for Armenia Idram Junior also joined the companies during the visit, bringing with it a fascinating intellectual game for children Moscow slams EU mission in Armenia for “provocative activity” The EU mission is doing more and more against Armenia’s neighbors Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran, Mikhail Galuzin said. Yerevan Mayor to travel to Paris on May 15-19 The official delegation headed by Yerevan Mayor Tigran Avinyan will travel to Paris from May 15 to 19. |