PARAJANOV.COM NEWS (27 September 2005)

Sir Paul McCartney used the Armenian instrument duduk
on his new record “Chaos and Creation in the
Backyard”. The song is called “Jenny Wren” and duduk
is interestingly played by Pedro Eustache. Of course,
Macca should have invited the virtuoso Djivan
Gasparyan but maybe the “cute Beatle” hasn’t met him
yet… Duduk is constantly used in Hollywood
blockbusters and can also be heard in Sergei
Parajanov’s masterpiece SAYAT NOVA.

The 93 year old Michelangelo Antonioni received
sensational standing ovations at the LACMA Museum in
Los Angeles, when he appeared there on 17 September
2005 after the screening of his THE GAZE OF
MICHELANGELO and BEING WITH ANTONIONI by his lovely
wife Enrica Fico Antonioni. The event was attended by
the world’s first Chechnya-born filmmkaer, the
Armenian master Mikhail Vardanov, director of the
influential documentary PARAJANOV: THE LAST SPRING.

The President of Finland Tarja Halonen visited the
Parajanov Museum during her visit to Armenia. It’s a
great honor! It’d intersting to find out how Sergei
Parajanov’s museum was chosen instead of, say, the
Matenadaran Museum.