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The rockstar Ara Malikian conquered the audience of the National Auditorium



Mexico, May 17 (Notimex) .- A storyteller who evoked rock figures like
Jimi Hendrix and Radiohead, to capture his style, the Lebanese-born
violinist Ara Malikian, offered a splendid concert on a slightly warm
night in the National Auditorium.

The so-called rockstar of the violin, who two years ago was presented
with great success in the Alhóndiga de Granaditas in the framework of
the International Cervantino Festival, delighted with his virtuosity,
but also fulfilled as a storyteller.

Accompanied by his musical group, Ara Malikian, he squandered an
energy as if he were a rock vocalist, coming and going from one end
with his guitar, but this was with his violin, jumping again and
again, and walking quickly, but playing your instrument

The storyteller made his entrance as a rockstar, with his band, made
up of musicians with orchestra and rock instruments, began his
adventure with songs by Jimi Hendrix and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who
made his appearance.

Dressed in black, like the musicians, he thanked the audience and
especially being on a stage like the Colossus of Reforma, while he
began to tell some stories about his violin and how he had the fortune
to work in what he likes. .

The fate of becoming a musician was thanks to his grandfather, who
gave him the violin, instrument that always cared for and made him his
own, so he dedicated a piece, between Armenian and Lebanese music.

At the time he began to play the violin, accompanied by his group,
which with his unique style, increasingly appropriated the space of
the stage, but above all to show a complete show full of music and
storytelling.

One of the most emotional moments was when he played the theme of "La
Campanella", by Niccoló Paganini, who put one of the members to work
as the bell ringer, to execute the piece.

The rockstar not only played pieces by classical composers, but also
rock figures, so there could not be a romantic work in which only he
and a guitar were present, in the middle of almost a darkness on stage
to give that atmosphere necessary.

Ara Malikian with his refined technique on the violin and his own
style of doing it as a rock musician, thanked the audience, in the
midst of a loud ovation that the people returned to him and his
musicians.