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CHARLES AMIRKHANIAN'S WORK TO BE PERFORMED AT FRESNO NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 4, 2011 - 11:41 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Fresno New Music Festival this year turned to a
familiar name for its featured guest composer: Fresno native Charles
Amirkhanian, who founded the Other Minds Festival of avant-garde music
in San Francisco. His work will be featured in a Saturday, November
5 concert at the Fresno State Concert Hall, Fresno Bee reports.
"I'm looking forward to doing a master class with composition students
to discuss how I put together my pieces," he said.
Commenting on the concert, he said: "I'm giving the first concert
performance of a piece based on sounds I recorded in Armenia with my
father Ben in 1994. It's called "Miatsoom," which in Armenian means
"reunion." Neither of us had been to our homeland before, and we
landed there just after the country had gained its independence."
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 4, 2011 - 11:41 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Fresno New Music Festival this year turned to a
familiar name for its featured guest composer: Fresno native Charles
Amirkhanian, who founded the Other Minds Festival of avant-garde music
in San Francisco. His work will be featured in a Saturday, November
5 concert at the Fresno State Concert Hall, Fresno Bee reports.
"I'm looking forward to doing a master class with composition students
to discuss how I put together my pieces," he said.
Commenting on the concert, he said: "I'm giving the first concert
performance of a piece based on sounds I recorded in Armenia with my
father Ben in 1994. It's called "Miatsoom," which in Armenian means
"reunion." Neither of us had been to our homeland before, and we
landed there just after the country had gained its independence."