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| 15:20:17 | 15-04-2005 | Social |

LIFE OF CHRIST AND THE GREAT ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

On April 24 at 00:00 a.m. in the Chamber Music Hall after Komitas maestro
Loris Chgnavoryan will give a midnight concert titled `Life of Christ’ in
memory of the Great Armenian Genocide victims. The male spiritual choir, and
soloists Souren Lazarian (tenor) and Vahagn Hovents (bariton) will sing in
the concert.

After the end of the concert they will march to Tsitsrnakaberd where they
will meet the April 24 dawn with the Nerses Shnorhali spiritual psalms named
`Dawn’. Today in the press conference in the Journalists House Loris
Chgnavoryan informed about it.

The composition `Life of Christ’ has been processed by the maestro. He has
processed the spiritual psalms connected with Christ for the male choir and
has summed them up in the oratory `Life of Christ’, which was performed for
the first time in 1975 in London.

Why Life of Christ? The maestro commented that the Armenian Genocide is like
the life of Christ: as he was crucified and raised from the dead three days
later, the Armenian nation was crucified in 1915 and raised from the dead 3
years later.

By the way, a DVD will soon be released about the Genocide in which a film
will be represented about the Great Armenian Genocide.