Special Event in Wales For The Armenian Genocide & Jewish Holocaust

SPECIAL EVENT IN WALES FOR THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE & JEWISH HOLOCAUST

Wales Commemorates the Armenian Genocide & Jewish Holocaust in Cardiff
as part of Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday, 26 January 2005, at
7:00 pm.

CRAG has actively supported this open public event at the Temple of
Peace in Cathays Park in Cardiff, Wales. Attending are the Chair of
CRAG as well as other Board Members, Father Shnork Baghdassarian and
other Church representatives as well as participants from different
communities. The key speaker is Mike Joseph, with contributions from
other speakers that represent Welsh political parties as well as
Armenian and Jewish participants.

Hereunder is the Press Release from Wales-Armenia Solidarity, an
associate of CRAG, on this important event that will address both the
Armenian Genoicde and Jewish Holocaust in the presence of political
and religious dignitaries: “On the Eve of Holocaust Memorial Day,The
Political, Cultural, and Religious Elite of Wales once more gather in
Solidarity with the Armenian and Jewish victims of Turkish and Nazi
Crimes against Humanity At The Temple of Peace, Cardiff, capital of
Wales, a nation emerging from 700 years of English misrule, on 26th
January, representatives of all Religious denominations, the
Presidentof the National Cultural Festival and the leaders all
political parties, including the First Minister of the National
Assembly Rhodri Morgan gather to commemmorate the Armenian victims of
genocide perpetrated by the Turkish State in 1894-96, 1909, and
1915-23 and the Jewish victims of the1939-45 Holocaust.

On this issue unanimity of opinion has been reached and this
establishes a moral challenge to the U.K. government’s position of
conniving to aid Turkey’s accesion into the European Union without any
pre-condition of Recognition of its past crimes against the Armenian
nation.

The main speaker will be Mike Joseph, the authority on the close
connection between the Armenian Genocide and the Jewish
Holocaust. Welsh and Armenian choirs will participate at this
occassion. I It was the Welshman David Lloyd George, who was Prime
minister of Britain from 1916-22, who recognised Britain’s guilt in
the matter. He wrote in 1932 in “The Truth about Peace Treaties”: ” It
was the actions of the British government that led to the massacres of
1894-96, 1909 and worst of all, thethe Holocaust of 1915″.

True to tradition today’s British government continue to turn a blind
eye to Turkey’s genocidal policies towards Armenia.”

You can also read the announcement for this event on the weblink for
the Welsh Centre for International Affairs at and
referenceis made to it as well on the official governmental weblink
on:

http://www.accc.org.uk/index.html
www.wcia.org.uk
www.holocaustmemorialday.gov.uk/events/whatson/eventdetails.asp?eventID=3D223

VIS: Armenia: Build A Solid and Lasting Peace

VATICAN INFORMATION SERVICE
HOLY SEE PRESS OFFICE

01.28.2005
Fifteenth Year  – N.19

ARMENIA: BUILD A SOLID AND LASTING PEACE

VATICAN CITY, JAN 28, 2005 (VIS) – This morning John Paul II received the
president of the Republic of Armenia, Robert Kocharian, recalling other
meetings they had held, in the Vatican in 1999 and later in Yerevan in 2001,
during the Pope’s apostolic visit to Armenia.

  The Pope told the president of his “sincere appreciation for the good
relations between the Holy See and the government of your country. I know
that the Catholic community is welcomed and respected, and that its various
activities contribute to the wellbeing of the entire nation.”

  He went on: “Everyone earnestly hopes that the collaboration between the
Holy See and the Armenian government will continue to grow and, where the
situation calls for it, that eventual improvements to the status of the
Catholic Church will be made.”

  The Holy Father also gave assurances of the “friendly and respectful
relations between the Catholic Church and the Armenian Apostolic Church.
This understanding, which is even more active thanks to the initiative of
the Catholicos Karekin II, will certainly have positive repercussions for
the peaceful coexistence of the entire Armenian people, who are called to
face no small number of social and economic challenges.”

  “I also hope,” said the Pope, “that true and lasting peace comes to the
region of Nagorno-Karabagh where you, President Kocharian, come from. This
will come about by a decisive refusal of violence and a patient dialogue
between the parties, thanks also to active international mediation.”

  The Pope concluded by recalling that the Holy See, “which over the
centuries has not failed to denounce violence and defend the rights of the
weak, will continue to support all efforts aimed at building a solid and
lasting peace.”

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Berlin does not cancel the “Armenian Genocide” from its textbooks

La Padania, Italia
giovedì 27 gennaio 2005

Il cancelliere Schroeder è accusato di tacere sullo sterminio per
compiacere la Turchia

«Berlino non cancelli dai libri il genocidio armeno»

BERLINO – L’intellettuale ebreo Ralph Giordano ha sollecitato il
cancelliere Gerhard Schroeder a non tacere sul genocidio degli armeni
e a ricordare ad Ankara che senza un riconoscimento morale delle sue
responsabilità la Turchia non può essere ammessa nell’Unione europea.
La Germania ha come nessun altro paese una responsabilità storica
perché in virtù della sua forza di potente alleato avrebbe potuto
impedire il massacro, ha dichiarato lo scrittore all’emittente
nazionale Deutschlandfunk: «il cancelliere non potrà sottrarsi, dovrà
saldare questo conto».
All’origine delle dichiarazioni c’è la decisione del Brandeburgo,
pare su pressione del console turco, di stralciare dai testi di
scuola il capitolo sul genocidio degli armeni. È una decisione che
rientra nella tradizione di tutti i governi tedeschi dal 1914: la
Turchia è da 90 anni il partner eterno della Germania, ha osservato
Giordano. Nel 1985 la Francia, ha ricordato, ha già ufficialmente
dichiarato genocidio i crimini dell’Impero Ottomano. La Turchia, che
ne è il diretto erede, non solo invece nega i fatti ma distorce la
storia.
«Al confine fra Armenia e Turchia un monumento ricorda non il
genocidio dei turchi contro gli armeni ma degli armeni contro i
turchi», ha criticato l’intellettuale. A suo avviso, a distanza di 90
anni dai crimini è l’ora di riconoscere la storia: «non potrà esserci
nessuna adesione della Turchia all’Ue senza un riconoscimento storico
e morale di quello che i turchi hanno fatto agli armeni», ha detto.
All’indirizzo del premier del Brandeburgo Matthias Platzeck (Spd),
che ha avallato la decisione di `epurare’ i libri di storia nel Land,
Giordano ha citato addirittura una frase di Hitler prima dell’inizio
della guerra: «Ci sarà una guerra contro uomini, donne e bambini,
senza pietà, tanto chi si ricorda del genocidio degli armeni».
Giordano che ha dedicato un film al genocidio armeno (La questione
armena non esiste più – La tragedia di un popolo) parteciperà il 24
aprile a Francoforte alle commemorazioni ufficiali per i 90 anni del
massacro degli armeni.

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http://www.lapadania.com/PadaniaOnLine/Articolo.aspx?pDesc=34910

Chilly reception: Playwrights French & Alianak draw tiny crowd

The Gazette (Montreal)
January 22, 2005 Saturday

Chilly reception: Travelling playwrights David French and Hrant
Alianak draw a tiny crowd for their recent meet-the-authors session

MATT RADZ, The Gazette

Our town hasn’t been lucky or much good for Toronto playwright David
French. He once rode a bus out of here, suicide on his brain, after
his Montreal girlfriend dumped him. There hasn’t been a major
production of instant classics like Leaving Home or Of The Fields,
Lately that established him as Canada’s “national playwright” in the
early 1970s. No mainstage French since Salt-Water Moon sold a lot of
tickets and won a handful of awards for the Saidye Bronfman Centre
three seasons ago.

And after the cold reception, and we’re not just talking about the
weather, that French and fellow travelling author Hrant Alianak
received this week, you can’t blame him if he never comes back.
Though he might be tempted, should we organize the kind of 15-play,
three-movie, 18-day festival that Winnipeg has put together to
celebrate the oeuvre of another national playwright, Michel Tremblay.

“Two playwrights and a critic … well, there’s Canadian theatre for
you,” Alianak grins after doing a quick head count of the audience
assembled, if that’s the word, for a mid-afternoon meet-the-authors
session in Centaur’s cafe on Monday.

“This is insulting, really,” Newfoundland-born French, 66, said with
a shrug in the lobby later. “There would have been more people if
this was in California.” Not to say warmer, all around.

Eventually, a few more dropped by, including Centaur’s
general-manager Chuck Childs, and they were rewarded with an
anecdotal history of how indigenous theatre was born in this country,
related by a tag team of stage veterans who have never collaborated
on a production during a lifelong friendship.

“My play, Tantrums, opened in April (1972) and David’s (Leaving Home)
opened in May,” Alianak notes. Born of Armenian parents in Sudan in
1950, he came to Canada in 1967. The author of explicitly surrealist
plays like Return of the Big Five, The Blues and Lucky Strike is
regarded as Canada’s foremost experimental playwright.

Filmgoers will remember him for his role in Atom Egoyan’s Family
Viewing (1987).

The smaller the audience, the better the show. A trooper’s anger at
those who stayed away, combined with a sense of obligation to those
who came, triggers a more focused and determined effort – especially
from Canadian playwrights who have to learn early on to swallow
rejection for breakfast, and to eat rebuffs for lunch, if they want
to survive another day of trying to break even.

Alianak and French are trained actors and the latter’s reading of Ben
Mercer’s speech that opens his 1973 classic Of The Fields, Lately was
as moving a moment of theatre as we have witnessed at Centaur – “It
takes many incidents to build a wall between two men, brick by brick.
Sometimes you’re not aware of the building …”

As poignant was French’s recollection of how he met, and walked out
on, the late Bill Glassco, who went on to produce premieres of all
his plays at Toronto’s Tarragon Theatre, including the latest
instalment of the Mercer saga, Soldier’s Heart, in 2001.

And French relived the quasi-mystical moment when he suddenly found
his vocation in Mr. Beane’s Grade 8 library class.

A sports-crazy “class clown” who “grew up in a home with no books,”
the playwright-to-be was ordered by the exasperated teacher, a stern,
well-dressed disciplinarian, to stand in the corner, get a book from
the shelf and SHUT UP!

As destiny would have it, the young French snatched up a copy of Tom
Sawyer and began to read. “After 15 minutes I knew I wanted to be a
writer – and that I was a writer,” he said. “It was so weird, a
strong sense, mystical. I don’t understand it. I never tell that
story.”

French and Alianak came to Montreal to talk about the early days of
Passe Muraille and Tarragon with Robert Astle’s Canadian Theatre
History class at Concordia.

“This is the first year I am teaching the course,” Astle said over a
smoked-meat sandwich with the visiting authors in the “poet’s corner”
at Ben’s deli earlier in the day, “and I thought rather than just
talk about the early days of Canadian drama, I’d introduce the
students to two of the people who were there, who started it all.”

– – –

Michel Tremblay told an interviewer this week that astonished and
flattered though he is by the festival of his works that opened in
Winnipeg Thursday, he’s also a little fearful, because playgoers
seeing so many of his plays at once might decide “je ne suis pas si
bon que ca (I am not as good as all that).”

Now in its fifth year, Winnipeg’s Master Playwright Festival has
already paid homage to Pinter, Brecht, Albee and Beckett. This is the
first time it has recognized a Canadian writer. This year’s bilingual
Tremblay program runs until Feb. 6. For details:

– – –

Jackie Maxwell, the Shaw Festival honcho who directed Tremblay’s Past
Perfect at Centaur last season, heads the search committee for the
next English-language artistic director at the National Arts Centre.
Marti Maraden, who has held the post since 1997, will be stepping
down at the end of this season.

www.tremblayfest.com

BAKU: Azeri, Armenian presidents to meet in Warsaw on 16 May

Azeri, Armenian presidents to meet in Warsaw on 16 May

Trend news agency
19 Jan 05

BAKU

Trend correspondent A. Raufoglu: The next meeting of the Azerbaijani
and Armenian presidents will take place in Warsaw on 16 May. Trend
news agency has learnt from diplomatic sources that it will take place
on the sidelines of the third meeting of Council of Europe heads of
state on 15-17 May.

“The dialogue between the presidents of Azerbaijan and Armenia will
take place at the initiative of the OSCE Minsk Group and has nothing
to do with the Council of Europe,” the Council of Europe foreign
relations committee told Trend. At the same time, the source said
that the Azerbaijani side has sent a notification to Strasbourg in
connection with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to Poland
on 16-17 May. “The Council of Europe welcomes the intention of the
Azerbaijani leader to participate in the summit and pins great hopes
on the event,” the source said.

[Passage omitted: The Russian Foreign Ministry earlier issued a
statement about the meeting]

BAKU: Az. parliamentarians to attend sittings of PACE

AzerTag, Azerbaijan
Jan 19 2005

AZERBAIJAN PARLIAMENTARIANS TO ATTEND SITTINGS OF PACE AND POLITICAL
AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
[January 19, 2005, 20:36:02]

Delegation of the Azerbaijan parliamentarians on January 21 will
leave for Strasbourg to take part at the sittings of Parliamentary
Assembly of the Council of Europe and Political Affairs Committee,
head of the MM foreign relations and inter-parliamentary links Samad
Seyidov told AzerTAj correspondent.

The delegation comprises MPs Ali Huseynov, Gultekin Hajiyeva, Aydin
Mirzazade, Vagif Vekilov, Ali Alirzayev, Rafael Huseynov, Aynur
Sofiyeva, Naira Shahtakhtinskaya, Bakhtiyar Aliyev, Azer Kerimli,
Gulamhuseyn Alibeyli, Asim Mollazade, secretary of delegation Ilyas
Guliyev and expert of the permanent committee Ruslan Ismayilov.

In the winter session, David Atkinson will present his report on the
Armenia-Azerbaijan, Nagorny Karabakh conflict, and be held
discussions around the report. At the session, also will be discussed
issues of creation of European Memory Center, fulfillment of Georgia
of its obligations, presidential elections in Ukraine and others.

In the sitting of Political Affairs Committee is to be considered
conducting the third summit of the heads of states and governments of
the member countries.

The visit will end on January 29.

Obituary: Felix Aprahamian

Obituary: Felix Aprahamian

The Independent – United Kingdom
Jan 18, 2005

Lewis Foreman

THE MUSIC critic Felix Aprahamian was a remarkable self-made man, an
amateur who became a professional, whose enormous influence in musical
circles was deeply founded in his practical experience of promoting
music in London, notably by British and French composers.

The son of an immigrant Armenian family – his father, Avedis
Aprahamian (who had been born Hovhanessian), was naturalised at the
turn of the century – Felix lived until the end of his life in the
family home in Muswell Hill, London, to which they moved on 1 January
1919, after Felix recovered from diphtheria. There he accumulated the
unique library which survives him.

Felix attended the local Tollington High School, and, becoming
interested in the organ, had lessons from Eric Thiman, whom he
assisted at Park Chapel, Crouch End. Felix Aprahamian would explain,
half-jokingly, “I failed Matriculation because I discovered music”,
and otherwise only acquired formal education from evening classes,
notably at the Working Men’s College in Crowndale Road, where he later
lectured. His father’s carpet business was adversely affected by the
crash in 1929, but even so he was able to use his contacts to find
Felix a position in the City. He became an office boy in Fenchurch
Street and Mincing Lane, but had no interest in the metal exchange or
the produce markets, and at the same time was developing his musical
interests by constant concert-going and by moonlighting with various
organisations.

He worked for the Organ Music Society, of which he was assistant
secretary from the age of 17. In this capacity he was soon in
correspondence with the leading French names of the day – Andre
Marchal, Charles Tournemire, Maurice Durufle and the young Olivier
Messiaen, even in his teens arranging their visits to London. When the
society announced a series of improvisations in London, Aprahamian
wrote to the leading composers of the day asking them to write themes,
his respondents including Jean Sibelius, Benjamin Britten, Albert
Roussel, William Walton and Constant Lambert.

Aprahamian’s enthusiasm led him to strike up acquaintance with many
composers, and he never lost an opportunity to have his copies of
their scores inscribed. In August 1933, the 19-year-old Aprahamian
with two friends visited Frederick Delius at Grez-sur-Loing, and while
in Paris, with his London organ credentials, inveigled himself a seat
in the organ loft beside the aged Charles-Marie Widor, the old man
obligingly autographing Felix’s copy of the score.

Thanks to his surviving diaries, these events are documented in
amazing detail. Aprahamian could make a slim reminiscence go an
enormously long way, and once, in the 1980s, to a group of visiting
London press correspondents, he gave the full range of his
contacts. One journalist said as he left the room: “That must the be
most amazing example of sustained name-dropping I have ever heard!”

Quite where Aprahamian acquired his fluent French he never revealed,
though he did well in the subject at school, and he would recall his
father first taking him to Paris in 1923. Yet during the Second World
War he was able to broadcast in French from Bush House and certainly
conversed fluently with his French friends and colleagues,
interpreting for others where necessary. When, in the late 1980s, a
French radio team visited London preparing a programme on British
composers, he was far from pleased when they stopped him in full flow
and insisted on recording his contribution in English, over which a
French actor later read a translation.

Working for ARP, he spent the war as concert director of the London
Philharmonic Orchestra, and had vivid memories of the ruins of Queen’s
Hall the night after it was bombed – he kept one of the posters taken
from the smouldering ruins. This took him to visit Keith Douglas, who
for two years (1940, 1941) ran the Proms on behalf of the Royal
Philharmonic Society from the Victoria Hotel, Rickmansworth. His work
with the LPO led to an association with Sir Thomas Beecham, the
conductor responding to Aprahamian’s knowledge of Delius and the
French repertoire, Aprahamian becoming an informal assistant.

Aprahamian’s sympathy for and knowledge of French music led him to
become in 1942 the organiser of the Concerts de Musique Francaise for
the Free French in London, working with Tony Mayer, Conseiller
Culturel from the French Embassy, which gave him access to all the
leading French performers and composers of the day. He presented 104
concerts in all. On one occasion, he found the Princesse de Polignac
standing in the queue outside the Wigmore Hall and was able to usher
her inside.

After the liberation of Paris, a wide circle of outstanding French
musicians and composers included Francis Poulenc, Messiaen, Pierre
Bernac and Pierre Fournier, many of whom became personal
friends. Aprahamian worked from 1946 to 1984 for United Music
Publishers, the principal agent for French music in the UK, his job
described as “consultant”. In fact he promoted French music in the UK,
from a delightful office in Bloomsbury lined with photographs of the
greatest French artists of the day inscribed to himself and dominated
by a piano piled with music. Aprahamian’s energy at this time was
prodigious, one former colleague describing him as “effervescent”.

In 1982 Marchal’s chamber organ was brought from the Basque country
and installed at Muswell Hill specifically for Aprahamian’s protege
the organist David Liddle. Aprahamian was particularly concerned with
the promotion of Messiaen and Poulenc, and later became associated
with the organist Jennifer Bate, facilitating the arrangements for the
London premiere of Messiaen’s Livre du Saint Sacrement and playing
host to Messiaen and his wife. When in waggish mood, he would take one
to the door of his house pointing out a tree against which, in a
moment of emergency, Poulenc had relieved himself.

Aprahamian claimed his first contribution to the musical press was in
1931 and his first in the newspapers in 1937. He had his first by-line
as a critic when he was asked by the Daily Express to review a concert
he had not attended and, by managing to find a way of evoking Faure’s
Ballade which he described as “evergreen”, without actually describing
the performance, found himself a working critic.

He made his name as Deputy Music Critic on the Sunday Times where, for
41 years from 1948 to 1989, he was required reading, notable for his
literate and humane commentary, and for his desire to cover the
breadth of London music-making rather than always the plums, and for
his championship of the British and French music of the early 20th
century at a time of serial extremes.

Aprahamian also contributed erudite and well-judged record reviews,
writing for Gramophone from 1964 until 1975. In his later years as
critic he found it increasingly difficult to meet deadlines, and
Gramophone dropped him. His end as a critic came when he published a
review of a Gennadi Rozhdestvensky concert on the night Rozhdestvensky
was ill.

Aprahamian’s innumerable programme notes set new standards for
literacy and elegance, and his accounts notably of his favourite
French repertoire deserve collection. He also wrote a great many
articles, reminiscences and introductions to books, and edited and
translated Claude Samuel’s Conversations with Olivier Messiaen
(1976). Nigel Simeone has published collections of his correspondence
with Messiaen and Tournemire. Aprahamian was delighted when
commissioned by John Murray to write his autobiography (“Byron’s
publisher,” he would say), but was never able to make progress.

The warmth of London music’s appreciation of Aprahamian was all too
apparent when on June 1994 the Nash Ensemble presented an 80th
birthday concert for him at a packed Wigmore Hall. The programme
consisted largely of French music.

Aprahamian was celebrated for the brilliant detail of his recall, and
once when engaged in conversation with Lady Bliss on the subject of
butterflies impressed her and everyone present with his knowledge of
the Latin names of all species mentioned. Thus, when he suffered a
stroke in 1993, his characteristic tap of a finger on his temple with
the remark “The old clockwork’s still OK” was so reassuring. This,
too, made his final illness so distressing when, after a succession of
small strokes, he often would not recognise his visitors or
remember. He also lost most of his hearing, which became distorted,
organ music being most painful.

Felix Aprahamian was a showman, an autodidact and a complete
one-off. He helped many young musicians develop their careers and was
associated with many associations and musical organisation, perhaps
being most proud of his presidency of the Delius Society. In 1996 he
was appointed Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in
recognition of his contribution to French culture.

Felix Aprahamian, music critic and concert organiser: born London 5
June 1914; Honorary Secretary, Organ Music Society 1935-70; Concerts
Manager, London Philharmonic Orchestra 1940-46; Deputy Music Critic,
Sunday Times 1948-89; died London 15 January 2005.

Campaign for a jumbo’s cause: signature campaign to stop sending

The Hindu, India
January 13, 2005

CAMPAIGN FOR A JUMBO’S CAUSE

IF YOU have been to Bannerghatta Biological Park, you must have seen
or at least heard about Veda, the six-year-old elephant. The gentle
giant is in the eye of a storm, so to speak, about a planned transfer
to a zoo in Armenia.

Concerned Bangaloreans say it is illegal to shift her to that
country. They plan to organise a signature campaign against the
proposal. To make their protest clear, these citizens will take out a
procession on Sunday showing cartoons on Veda.

According to the protesters, Veda’s transfer from Bangalore to
Armenia is a goodwill gesture by the President and the Prime
Minister.

Such gifts are not uncommon. “It has become a trend for politicians
to gift elephants to temples, States and other countries, without
realising the consequences of their actions and overlooking the laws
on wildlife protection,” says Sharath Babu of People for Animals.

He says the Indian Wildlife Act, 1972 holds “gifting, rearing and
keeping Indian wildlife illegal.” That has not deterred such gifts
being offered to all and sundry.

Peacocks, black bucks, spotted deer and even pythons have been given
to prominent organisations in the city, he says. The protesters want
this “unfortunate practice” checked. And in Veda’s case, they say
that sending the pachyderm to Yerevan Zoo in Armenia is bad for the
mammal. “The climate is freezing there and, besides, the zoo is
unsuited for housing an elephant.” Winters in Armenia range from four
to six months in a year with temperatures varying from -4 to
-14<degree> Celsius, they say.

“Apart from the unsuitable climate of Armenia, Yerevan Zoo lacks the
space, infrastructure and facilities to keep an elephant,” they add.
Sunday’s walk will involve children, their parents and members of
corporates.

The protest march will start at 10 a.m. from the Shankar Nag
Chitramandira (Symphony) on Mahatma Gandhi Road and proceed to the
Mahatma Gandhi statue.

Those who want to know more about the walk and the signature campaign
can call 9880108801.

Armenia ready to continue talks within framework of “Prague process”

Armenia ready to continue talks within framework of “Prague process”

Arminfo
14 Jan 05

YEREVAN

Armenia is ready to continue talks within the framework of “the Prague
process”, the press secretary of the Armenian Foreign Ministry, Gamlet
Gasparyan, said.

Gasparyan pointed out that Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanyan
familiarized journalists at the press conference on 12 January with
the course of “the Prague process” as much as changes in this
direction allow. Gasparyan was commenting on deputy Azerbaijani
Foreign Minister Araz Azimov’s statement yesterday.

“We do not think it right to comment on the individual details and
previous stages of the settlement. Enough has been said about this
already. Nor would we like to start an external dispute with someone
as we think this has no use,” he stressed.

[Passage omitted: Azimov’s statement]

Famous British conductor dreamt of Armenia

PanArmenian News
Jan 13 2005

FAMOUS BRITISH CONDUCTOR DREAMT OF ARMENIA

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ “I dreamt of Armenia. It is the first country I
have dreamt of,” says famous British conductor Paul McAlindin, who
will be the first this year to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra of
Armenia Friday. Mr. McAlindin has not been to any of the countries of
the former Soviet Union before. In his words, he dreamt of Armenia in
2003, but he managed to come only now. “I am a supporter of
traditions and people in old times believed in prophetic dreams,” he
says.