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TANGO IN YEREVAN: NEW FESTIVAL PROMISES ARGENTINEAN RHYTHMS
By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow
02.11.10 | 12:05
Arts and Culture
~SAny country needs to know Piazzolla~T, says world famous accordionist
Richard Galliano.
Tango lovers in Armenia may enjoy their favorite music and dance
as part of a festival initiated this year and hoped to continue in
coming years.
The organizers are the Kadans music ensemble that performs music
by Argentinean tango composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) and other
authors as well as the Mezzo Club. The festival is supported by the
Ministry of Culture.
The festival will stretch throughout the year with a series of concerts
featuring not only Armenian, but also noted foreign performers.
The first concert as part of the festival was held on October 30.
Kadans members, such as pianist Armen Babakhanyan, guitarist Hakob
Jaghatspanyan and others performed with world-famed French accordionist
Richard Galliano at the National Opera and Ballet Academic Theater.
Galliano said that any country needs to know Piazzolla, a composer who,
he said, gave a new breath, modern rhythms and new meaning to tango
that was considered as an old-fashioned music genre until the 1980s.
~SToday I created my ~Qnew musette~R, because I feel that we should not
play the kind of music they used to play in the 1930s. But we should
consider such powerful influences as Astor Piazzolla, John Coltrane,
Bill Evans and Claude Debussy,~T says Galliano.
Galliano was among the first who started to use accordion in
jazz. In 1980, at La Comedie Francaise Theater in Paris he performed
Shakespeare~Rs Midsummer Night~Rs Dream to his own music.
~SOur goal was to make well-known international figures of Argentinean
tango available to our public. The festival was taken with great
enthusiasm, which shows that we were right to think that such a
festival should be held in Armenia,~T Mezzo Club director Irina
Saribekyan told ArmeniaNow.
Piazzolla became known in Armenia only in recent years due to the
Kadans group~Rs efforts. Then Armenian choreographer Rudolf Kharatian
from the United States staged a one-act ballet to Piazzolla~Rs music.
The ballet dancers, Saribekyan says, may also perform during the
festival.
Tickets to Tango festival concerts are priced 3,000-15,000 drams
($8-40).
The next concert in the series is planned to be held this month,
though the date is not yet specified.
From: A. Papazian
By Karine Ionesyan
ArmeniaNow
02.11.10 | 12:05
Arts and Culture
~SAny country needs to know Piazzolla~T, says world famous accordionist
Richard Galliano.
Tango lovers in Armenia may enjoy their favorite music and dance
as part of a festival initiated this year and hoped to continue in
coming years.
The organizers are the Kadans music ensemble that performs music
by Argentinean tango composer Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) and other
authors as well as the Mezzo Club. The festival is supported by the
Ministry of Culture.
The festival will stretch throughout the year with a series of concerts
featuring not only Armenian, but also noted foreign performers.
The first concert as part of the festival was held on October 30.
Kadans members, such as pianist Armen Babakhanyan, guitarist Hakob
Jaghatspanyan and others performed with world-famed French accordionist
Richard Galliano at the National Opera and Ballet Academic Theater.
Galliano said that any country needs to know Piazzolla, a composer who,
he said, gave a new breath, modern rhythms and new meaning to tango
that was considered as an old-fashioned music genre until the 1980s.
~SToday I created my ~Qnew musette~R, because I feel that we should not
play the kind of music they used to play in the 1930s. But we should
consider such powerful influences as Astor Piazzolla, John Coltrane,
Bill Evans and Claude Debussy,~T says Galliano.
Galliano was among the first who started to use accordion in
jazz. In 1980, at La Comedie Francaise Theater in Paris he performed
Shakespeare~Rs Midsummer Night~Rs Dream to his own music.
~SOur goal was to make well-known international figures of Argentinean
tango available to our public. The festival was taken with great
enthusiasm, which shows that we were right to think that such a
festival should be held in Armenia,~T Mezzo Club director Irina
Saribekyan told ArmeniaNow.
Piazzolla became known in Armenia only in recent years due to the
Kadans group~Rs efforts. Then Armenian choreographer Rudolf Kharatian
from the United States staged a one-act ballet to Piazzolla~Rs music.
The ballet dancers, Saribekyan says, may also perform during the
festival.
Tickets to Tango festival concerts are priced 3,000-15,000 drams
($8-40).
The next concert in the series is planned to be held this month,
though the date is not yet specified.
From: A. Papazian