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BEETHOVEN'S OPUS 132 PERFORMED IN COMMEMORATION OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 21, 2011 - 16:18 AMT 11:18 GMT
Dilijan, the Armenian-themed chamber music series at Zipper Hall of the
Colburn School, LA, ended its season with Beethoven's String Quartet
No. 15, Opus 132 he titled Holy Song of Thanks from a Convalescent
to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode, for its annual concert "In
Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide."
The quartet also closed the final music event of the JapanOC Festival
with an appearance by the Tokyo String Quartet, presented by the
Philharmonic Society of Orange County in the small Samueli Theater. No
mention was made in the program of the travails by the Japanese in
the wake of their devastating earthquake. But in the lobby of the
adjoining Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, schoolchildren were
fashioning origami cranes as a fundraiser to help the people of Japan.
Beethoven's job was large. These two tragedies, nearly a century apart,
require different responses. Japan works toward the immediate relief
from suffering caused by an act of nature. Armenia's old wounds,
the result of cultural conflict, are now psychic, and the cure is
the compassion of history, says an article in Los Angeles Times.
What Beethoven's quartet offered Dilijan was the concept that
differences can be reconciled. What it provided the Tokyo Quartet was
not only the promise of "new strength," but how unspeakably marvelous
that new strength feels when it arises out of hopelessness.
The Dilijan performers were violinist Movses Pogossian, a superb solo
violinist and chamber musician with a keenness for new music, and three
members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic - violinist Varty Manouelian,
principal violist Carrie Dennis and principal cellist Peter Stumpf.
The Tokyo, formed in 1969, still retains one original member, violist
Kazuhide Isomura, and Kikuei Ikeda has been second violinist since
1974. The non-Japanese members, Canadian first violinist Martin
Beaver and British cellist Clive Greensmith joined in 2002 and 2000,
respectively.
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
April 21, 2011 - 16:18 AMT 11:18 GMT
Dilijan, the Armenian-themed chamber music series at Zipper Hall of the
Colburn School, LA, ended its season with Beethoven's String Quartet
No. 15, Opus 132 he titled Holy Song of Thanks from a Convalescent
to the Divinity, in the Lydian Mode, for its annual concert "In
Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide."
The quartet also closed the final music event of the JapanOC Festival
with an appearance by the Tokyo String Quartet, presented by the
Philharmonic Society of Orange County in the small Samueli Theater. No
mention was made in the program of the travails by the Japanese in
the wake of their devastating earthquake. But in the lobby of the
adjoining Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, schoolchildren were
fashioning origami cranes as a fundraiser to help the people of Japan.
Beethoven's job was large. These two tragedies, nearly a century apart,
require different responses. Japan works toward the immediate relief
from suffering caused by an act of nature. Armenia's old wounds,
the result of cultural conflict, are now psychic, and the cure is
the compassion of history, says an article in Los Angeles Times.
What Beethoven's quartet offered Dilijan was the concept that
differences can be reconciled. What it provided the Tokyo Quartet was
not only the promise of "new strength," but how unspeakably marvelous
that new strength feels when it arises out of hopelessness.
The Dilijan performers were violinist Movses Pogossian, a superb solo
violinist and chamber musician with a keenness for new music, and three
members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic - violinist Varty Manouelian,
principal violist Carrie Dennis and principal cellist Peter Stumpf.
The Tokyo, formed in 1969, still retains one original member, violist
Kazuhide Isomura, and Kikuei Ikeda has been second violinist since
1974. The non-Japanese members, Canadian first violinist Martin
Beaver and British cellist Clive Greensmith joined in 2002 and 2000,
respectively.
From: A. Papazian