CONCERTS OF STATE PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA OF ARMENIA IN GERMANY, SLOVAKIA AND CZECH REPUBLIC ARE BRILLIANT:
TOURS OF KOMITAS STRING QUARTET FOLLOW THEM
Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia
Nov 8 2006
YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 8, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The State
Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia (SPOA) as well for the first time
participated in the annual authoritative festivals of classic music
held in September and October in Germany, Slovakia and the Czech
Republic. As SPOA Director Ruzan Sirunian stated at the November 7
press conference, the orchestra concerts were held brilliantly and
enjoyed the spectators’ warm reception. During the festivals the
orchestra performed Aram Khachaturian’s Concert for Violin, pieces
from the Spartak ballet, Tchaikovsky’s "Pathetic" Symphony No6,
Shostakovich’s Symphony No6 and other works.
R.Sirunian mentioned that after the successes having had in Germany,
the SPOA was involved in the Meistersingerhallen concert season
of Nuremberg, and the Bratislava and Prague festivals organizations
proposed the SPOA to cooperate in future as well and to be continuously
involved in their festival programs. "We have high-quality orchestra,
but it is very difficult to perform with orchestras like the BBC,
Czech philharmonic orchestras. But, performances of our orchestra were
received with "bravos" and "encores." We again proved the world that
the SPOA has high professional readiness and may perform in any country
where they like and estimate classic music" R.Sirunian mentioned.
As Ashot Grigorian, the head of the Armenian community of Slovakia,
the main organizer of the Armenian Culture Days in Slovakia, informed
Noyan Tapan, they got a great number of phone calls from the concert
spectators who expressed words of admiration concerning the exclusive
high professional performance of the Philharmonic Orchestra of
Armenia and especially concerning chief conductor Eduard Topchian’s
skillfulness. And now, in A.Grigorian’s words, lovers of the classic
music in Bratislava wait impatiently for the next concert: performance
of their favourite quartet after Komitas. The quartet will go on
tours to Slovakia and the Czech Republic on November 13.
As the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by Eduard Tadevosian,
the artistic head of the quartet, the quartet received the invitation
to perform concerts from Ashot Grigorian, the Chairman of the Armenian
community of Slovakia. The concerts being organized in Slovakia will
be held within the framework of the Days of Armenian Culture. Works
of Tchaikovksy, Shostakovich as well as Arno Babajanian’s quartet
dedicated to the memory of Shostakovich will be performed at the
concerts.
Ashot Grigorian mentioned in his turn that the quartet’s concerts
in Prague will give special brilliance to the music festival, and in
this issue, he is too grateful to Aleksan Sargsian, the Chairman of
the Armenian Union of the city of Jihlava, the Czech Republic, who
undertook organization of the quartet’s concerts in Prague (November
16) and Jihlava (November 17).
It also became known that after the concerts in the Czech Republic
and Slovakia, the quartet will leave for Moscow to take part in the
jubilee concert dedicated to Arno Babajanian’s 85th anniversary.
Conductor Konstantin Orbelian will head the concert to take place at
the Music House hall of Moscow on November 28. Armenian and Russian
pop singers will also participate in the concert.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
