Seattle Chamber Players Perform Works By Armenian Composers

SEATTLE CHAMBER PLAYERS PERFORM WORKS BY ARMENIAN COMPOSERS
Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times arts writer

Seattle Times
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Feb 4 2010
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Seattle Chamber Players perform works by two composers of Armenian
descent.

TIM SUMMERS

Seattle Chamber Players: David Sabee, left, Paul Taub, Mikhail Shmidt,
Laura DeLuca.

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The Seattle Chamber Players, one of Seattle’s standout contemporary
chamber ensembles, take a turn for the Armenian on Friday with a
performance of works by Tigran Mansurian and Artur Avanesov. Avanesov,
an accomplished pianist, will perform two of his keyboard pieces solo.

He joins SCP on three other works of his, including "Namu Amida Butsu,"
a flute-piano duet that starts on a thunderous note and then explores
chilly, mountain-and-dell landscapes of sound, and "… leise ,"
for clarinet and piano, a beautiful, lilting, meditative work.

Avanesov’s pristine pieces have an affinity with the spare, intense
work of Arvo Pärt. Mansurian has composed for film ("Color of
Pomegranates") as well as classical ensembles. SCP, joined by Avanesov,
will perform his "4 Hayrens" (for clarinet and piano) and "Agnus Dei"
(for chamber quartet).

8 p.m. Friday, Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd
Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle; $15 at door only
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From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS