MUSIC ART NEEDS GREAT STATE CARE
Noyan Tapan
April 14, 2008
YEREVAN, APRIL 14, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. A meeting that was
held on April 14 in the Hayeli (Mirror) club was dedicated to the
discussion of the problems in the sphere of classical and variety
music. Pianist Armine Grigorian, the Director of Aram Khachatrian
House-Museum, and singer Nune Yesayan took part in the meeting.
The speakers held the same opinion, according to which great state
care is needed to have good results in any genre of music art, which
should be started from music schools. Both of them consider that
specialists regulating the sphere, producers, managers are needed
for music art development and achieving good results, otherwise a
musician is not able to pave a way in that sphere alone.
"For instance, I would very much like to have a producer and a manager,
who would attend to organization issues of my activity, I and I would
be engaged in singing," Nune Yesayan said. She expressed satisfaction
with the fact that a producers class has been created in Yerevan
Cinema and Theater State Institute lately.
The singer is also dissatisfied with the fact that in the variety
sphere any young person aged above 17 can be called a singer and even
a star after releasing one or two clips. "I myself have passed a great
school for becoming a fully-fledged singer, but now everyone sings
as he likes. Like representatives of any sphere, singers should also
receive education, be educated by the proper specialists," she said.
According to the singer, today there are both talented young people and
proper funds, but we need elaboration and implementation of a correct
program regulating and controlling the variety sphere for wealthy
performers presenting tasteless art not to keep down the talented ones.
Armine Grigorian said that variety is presented to the public more than
classical music. "Media also play a significant part in it by showing
classical music concerts, for instance, in the midnight. Classical
music cannot be promoted only by concerts, proper TV programs dedicated
to classical music are also needed," she emphasized.
According to the pianist, young music specialists graduating from
the Conservatory have no possibility of making their name in the
homeland, therefore they leave for abroad to seek success there. "The
competition field we have in the variety sphere should be also created
in the sphere of classical music, for representatives of high music
art also to have their competitors and appreciators there," she added.
From: Baghdasarian