RUSSIAN TV CHANNEL SCREENS A FILM DEDICATED TO COMPOSER ARNO BABAJANYAN

Public Radio of Armenia
Sept 22 2006

On September 21 Russia’s "Rosia" TV Channel screened "Arno Babajanyan’s
Ferris Wheel" film dedicated to great Armenian composer of 21st
century.

In the film contemporaries of the composer retrieve episodes
from his life and creative work. Warm memories were presented by
composer Alexandra Pakhmutova, poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko, actor Armen
Jigarkhanyan, film producer Nerses Hovhannisyan, the composer’s son
Nerses Hovhannisyan and others.

The film tells about the serious disease of the composer, his great
success in foreign countries, his meetings in Yerevan and Moscow,
Aram Khachatryan’s role, etc.

In one year after Arno Babajanyan’s death poet Andrey Voznesenski
devoted a poem to him, which includes the following words: "I will
live as long as music exists."

Once asked to name his favorite song, the composer had responded that
the best song is the one, which is still to be written.