AZG Armenian Daily #090, 19/05/2005
Culture
MUSIC SCHOOLS OF ARMENIA TO PARTICIPATE IN FESTIVAL
The specialized music school after Alexander Spendiarian turns 75 this
year. On this occasion the school is organizing a contesting festival
which will be unique, as the school director Samvel Sahakian thinks,
for the participation of musicians representing all instruments.
The festival will launch tomorrow at “Gabriel Sundukian” State
Academic Theatre and will last 10 days. “There are 452 applications
for the festival. There never was such a thing in the past, it seems
to be a nation-wide movement with the participation of almost all
music schools of Armenia”, director of Spendiarian music school said
yesterday to a press conference.
The jury of 17 members will be headed by Samvel Sahakian himself and
Edvar Mirzoyan will be an honorable chairman. Mr. Sahakian said that
they included young professions and graduates of Spendiarian school
in the jury.
Mr. Sahakian expressed concern that the RA Law on Education views music
schools as extracurricular sections. “I think that our status should
change. The music schools should at be considered pre-professional
establishments the least”, the director said. He thinks that the music
schools need to be subsidized by the state. “We are not able to boost
salaries of our teachers as the state-financed secondary schools do”,
Samvel Sahakian noted.
By Gohar Gevorgian
