YEAR OF ARMENIA IN ILE-DE-FRANCE STARTS WITH CONCERT
By Petros Keshishian

AZG Armenian Daily
19/09/2006

Historic district of Ile-de-France that includes Paris and its
surroundings each year holds a festival with 3 dozens of various
concert programs. This year’s topic of the festival is the Silk
Road. It enables the French to discover cultures of a number of
counties.

One of the participants of the Ile-de-France festival is Armenia
through territory of which part of the Silk Road used to pass. Within
the framework of the Year of Armenia in France concerts of Armenian
music will be staged in different parts of Ile-de-France.

Organizers of the festival say that one of the concerts will be held
at a concert hall in Meudon on September 30. Inspired by Biblical
Ararat, Armenian musicians will perform ashugh and gusan songs,
folk melodies of holidays, spiritual music and epic songs.

In the second part orchestra of Arc de Seine conservatoire conducted
by Alexander Siranosian.

Earlier, on September 24 and 26, singer Anna Mailian will present
Armenian folk music to residents of one of Paris’s southern suburbs. In
two concerts she will acquaint the listeners with the monodia of
Armenian art of singing and the polyphony of spiritual music.