YEAR OF ARMENIA IN ILE-DE-FRANCE STARTS WITH CONCERT
Historic district of Ile-de-France that includes Paris and its surroundings each year holds a festival with 3 dozens of various concert programs. This year’s topic of the festival is the Silk Road. It enables the French to discover cultures of a number of counties.
One of the participants of the Ile-de-France festival is Armenia through territory of which part of the Silk Road used to pass. Within the framework of the Year of Armenia in France concerts of Armenian music will be staged in different parts of Ile-de-France.
Organizers of the festival say that one of the concerts will be held at a concert hall in Meudon on September 30. Inspired by Biblical Ararat, Armenian musicians will perform ashugh and gusan songs, folk melodies of holidays, spiritual music and epic songs. In the second part orchestra of Arc de Seine conservatoire conducted by Alexander Siranosian.
Earlier, on September 24 and 26, singer Anna Mailian will present Armenian folk music to residents of one of Paris’s southern suburbs. In two concerts she will acquaint the listeners with the monodia of Armenian art of singing and the polyphony of spiritual music.
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- 1912 Invited representatives from various Armenian social group, meeting in Tbilissi, request that the Russian government again raise the issue of the Armenian Question.
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