Category: 2018

Monaco Prince cuts short his tour to meet with Aram Khachaturyan: Renowned composer’s meetings with Royal families

Lilit Nahapetian 
Armenpress News Agency , Armenia
February 7, 2018 Wednesday


Monaco Prince cuts short his tour to meet with Aram Khachaturyan:
Renowned composer's meetings with Royal families



YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 7, ARMENPRESS. During his tours renowned Armenian
composer Aram Khachaturyan met with the leaders of countries, received
interesting offers, as well as valuable gifts from them.

ARMENPRESS this time presents the composer’s meetings with the Royal families.

The composer was on tour in Belgium in 1960. Queen Elizabeth was
unable to attend his concert due to health problems, but after the
concert people approached Khachaturyan and conveyed the Queen’s
invitation to meet. Accepting the invitation with pleasure, the next
day the renowned composer and his wife were hosted at the Queen’s
Palace. “They had a very warm and interesting meeting. The Queen
Elizabeth had a great contribution in the art world the evidence of
which is the international contest named after her. She also played
violin and has been taught by renowned violinist Eugène Ysaÿe. This is
the reason that the Armenian composer and the Queen talked about the
art, the innovations in the music art, the composer’s creative path
and the Brussels Symphonic Orchestra. They have also talked about
people they know among whom were world-renowned musicians”, director
of the Aram Khachaturyan House-Museum Armine Grigoryan said.

The Queen also had a little knowledge of Russian the evidence of which
is her note written on a photograph. The photos of this meeting are
still kept in the Museum.

In 1973 the composer was invited to France where his 70th anniversary
was celebrated with a great event. During this tour he decided to
visit Monaco. During this period the Monaco Prince and his wife,
world-renowned star Grace Kelly, were outside the country, but being
informed about the composer’s visit, they returned from London cutting
short their tour and immediately arrived in the house where
Khachaturyan stopped. The Prince as well was very fond of art and he
organized different contests and festivals in his country every two
years dedicated to the composer art. In 1974 he not only invited the
composer to the contest-festival, but also asked to write a new work
to be performed at the opening ceremony of the festival.

Again on a concert tour in Iran in 1965, the Persian Shah showed his
sympathy to the composer by providing one of his personal vehicles to
the composer for touring the country. The Persian Shah and his wife
also attended Khachaturyan’s concert during which the Second Symphony
was performed. Usually, after the completion of the concert the Shah
left the concert hall, but this case differed from the remaining ones.
The Shah and his wife applauded the maestro as a result of which he
again performed his works.

Then the Shah and his wife went to the backstage to meet with the
renowned composer the evidence of which is the photo still maintained.
The Persian Shah handed over many gifts to the composer, among which
was quite a valuable Persian blue carpet. Khachatruyan brought it to
Moscow to decorate his apartment.

In 1961 during the trip in Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasserwelcomed
him at the airport. The Egyptian President also attended the
composer’s concert. He handed over one of the highest certificates of
the country to Aram Khachaturyan for the great contribution in the
field of art. During the same tour Khachaturyan also met with
President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito.

Anna Grigoryan

Photo – courtesy of Aram Khachaturyan House Museum

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Communities Across U.S. Mobilize to Screen ‘Intent to Destroy’ in Theaters

Vicken Chmshkian
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Poster for “Intent to Destroy”

LOS ANGELES — Joe Berlinger’s documentary Intent to Destroy, a film-within-a film that centers on the Armenian Genocide was a critical favorite at last year’s Tribeca and Hot Docs film festivals. The film also won best documentary at the Arpa International Film Festival held last November. Intent to Destroy was shown theatrically with limited screenings in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco.  Gathr Films is expanding the release with one-night-only event screenings through its crowd-sourced theatrical distribution platform Theatrical On Demand.

Produced by Survival Pictures (The Promise), RadicalMedia, and Third Eye Motion Picture Company in association with Bloom Project, Berlinger’s 13th feature-length documentary embeds history with the story of director Terry George’s exploration of the Genocide through his film The Promise. That includes the subsequent campaign launched by genocide deniers.

The film shines a light on the Armenian Genocide — whose witnesses and descendants are still fighting to be officially acknowledged as such by the international community including the United States: how it was carried out during World War I as the reign of the Ottoman Empire drew to a close, and how it laid the groundwork for the genocides that followed. Berlinger interviews historians, scholars, and high-profile filmmakers in his exploration of the tangled web of responsibility that has driven a century of denial by the Turkish government and its strategic allies.

Berlinger has won two Emmys and has been nominated in the feature doc category for an Oscar. His work includes Brother’s Keeper, the Paradise Lost trilogy, and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

Theatrical On Demand® allows individuals the opportunity to organize and promote screenings of Intent to Destroy in movie theaters across the country. With Theatrical On Demand®, you can bring this film to your local movie theater. You just pick the date, time, and theater where you want to host your screening. Gathr Films will set everything up for you at no cost. All you have to do is promote the film and get people to reserve tickets.

Theatrical On Demand® screenings can only happen if a minimum number of people reserve tickets before a screening expires. Movie Captains, who organize these screenings, have anywhere from 5 weeks to 4-months to promote the film in their city and get enough people to reserve tickets before the screening expires.

On every screening page, you’ll find an update that shows you the number of current reservations, the number of additional reservations needed to tip the screening, as well as how much time remains before that screening request expires. When enough people reserve tickets to a screening before time expires, the screening takes place. If the minimum number of reservations is not met, the screening does not take place and nobody is charged.

Anyone can Captain a movie screening, whether you’re an individual, an organization, or social club. Nonprofits can also add a feature that allows ticket purchasers to make an optional donation to their organization.

You can help bring Intent to Destroy to a theater near you by hosting your own screening and spreading the word. Intent to Destroy is an experience, and the full meaning and value of this film can only be experienced in a high-quality cinema with a big screen, great sound, and large audience. This film is dedicated to the estimated 1.5 million victims of the Armenian Genocide, and to all victims of mass slaughter around the world. May their suffering never be forgotten.

Organize a screening now or by emailing Haig Boyadjian at [email protected]

Uber, Yandex complete merger deal, global giant to enter Armenia

Emma Nadirian
| 10:31 | February 8 2018
Category
World

The world’s largest online cab ordering system – Uber, and Russia’s Yandex have completed the deal on merging taxi services in Russia and neighboring countries, Reuters reported citing the Russian company.

Uber and Yandex, often referred to as the “Google of Russia”, announced plans last year to combine operations in 127 cities in Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Kazakhstan.

San Francisco-based Uber has invested $225 million and Yandex has contributed $100 million in cash into a new joint company valued at more than $3.8 billion, Yandex said.‍

Uber Technologies Inc. is a global taxi technology company headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, operating in 633 cities worldwide. It develops, markets and operates the Uber car transportation and food delivery mobile apps. Uber drivers use their own cars although drivers can rent a car to drive with Uber.

Azerbaijan guns down Artsakh soldier

Adrine Hakobian