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    aysor.am, Armenia
    Aug 7 2009


    Is classical music for funerals?


    `They tell me `Your estrade' I tell them `I have no connection with
    it'. I ask a question to myself `with what do I have a connection? Who
    am I? In which genre do I create?' I can't answer, I do not know as it
    is not an estrade any more. It is too far from the present so called
    estrade',- thinks Emma Petrosyan, a signer who during the meeting with
    the journalists tried to find out why the music and singing started to
    degrade as a result of which the values started to lose their
    significance.

    To E. Petrosyan's opinion the genres have been mixed during some
    time. According to her the founder of Armenian pop music as many
    others think is not Arthur Grigoryan. She, being one of the founders
    of `Ayo show' together with Arthur Grigoryan, assured that once an
    army of individuals gathered together who have become authors of many
    wonderful works.

    `That time I didn't know what I was doing, why I was doing? I just was
    doing something I couldn't not to do. I suppose we had wonderful roots
    like Tatevik Hovhannisyan, Erna Yuzbashyan, Elvina Makaryan, Georgi
    Minasyan, Orbelyan¦ a very strong school',- remembered Petrosyan
    and added, `Suddenly half-educated people came out, who decided that
    they can do something.'

    `They started to record everyone and covered with these records
    everything.' In the result of this according to E. Petrosyan the bad
    music spread so quickly that she doesn't even know how to prevent or
    stop its circulation.

    To the question why the bad music is not being criticized by the
    artists and the corresponding professionals E. Petrosyan answered
    `Everyone is tired of criticizing as nothing is being changed.' She
    said that her criticism and her opinion is being heard only by her own
    students who understand and accept it.
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