AZG Armenian Daily #062, 08/04/2005

Culture

DAYS OF JAZZ IN YEREVAN

Annual Jazz Appreciation Month initiated by the National Smithsonian
Institution’s American History is being celebrated all over the vast
territory of the USA. This arrangement launched by jazz lovers aims at
focusing public’s attention to the history of jazz’s creation to its
unique richness as cultural and national value of the America. In 2003,
the US Congress backed the initiative to celebrate Jazz Appreciation
internationally. The American embassy to Armenia is opening Days of
Jazz festival in Yerevan in the current month.

The opening ceremony is taking place today at the Painters’ Union
with the accompaniment of an exhibition and jazz-poetry. Afterwards,
concerts of Armenia’s Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Band of Public TV
and Radio will follow at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall. Vahagn
Hayrapetian will stage Time Report jazz band’s “Cats” performance. On
invitation of the US embassy, Otar Magradze’s trio from Tbilisi
will play a concert at the Chamber Music Hall. The concert of Frank
Amsallem’s famous quartet and Sara Lazarus will close the festival
on April 16.

The Days of Jazz Festival will be accompanied by film series on jazz;
“Blues” films, “Art and Jazz” cartoons will be showed at the National
Gallery.

By Melania Badalian