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TODAY IS ARAM KHACHATURIAN'S 110TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
Aram Khachaturian
YEREVAN (ArmRadio)-June 6 is 110th birth anniversary of world-famous
composer Aram Khachaturian. On this occasion an inauguration ceremony
of the 9th Aram Khachaturian competition will take place at Aram
Khachaturian Concert Hall. The concert will feature the State Youth
Orchestra of Armenia and famous cellist Gautier Capucon from France.
This year the competition will seek to identify talented cellists. The
contest will be conducted in three stages and will continue through
June 13. The gala concert and award ceremony will take place on June
14. The prizes will range from 2 to 15 thousand USD.
People gathered at Komitas Pantheon this morning to pay tribute to the
memory of the great composer.
Born in 1903 Aram Khachaturian showed early signs of a love of music,
but his formal training did not begin until 1922, when he was admitted
to the famous Gnessin Institute in Moscow and continued at the Moscow
Conservatory with the eminent composer Myaskovsky.
The first major work of Khachaturian to be performed was his Symphony
No. 1 (1934). International acclaim greeted his 1936 Piano Concerto,
the success of which was quickly duplicated with the 1940 Violin
Concerto, and throughout the 1940s Khachaturian composed many
successful works, such as the Gayane ballet with its famous Saber
Dance (1942), his Symphony No. 2 (1943) and Cello Concerto (1946).
In 1954 he composed the Spartacus ballet, the Suite from which is
probably his best-known work, not least because of its stunning adagio
movement, popularized as the theme for the 1970s British television
series The Onedin Line.
Although remembered primarily as a composer who was most successful in
dealing with pictorial subjects such as ballets, films and incidental
music to plays, Khachaturian was quite active in his later years as a
conductor, especially of his own works.
Khachaturian died in Moscow on May 1, 1978, just short of his 75th
birthday. He was buried in the Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan, along with
other distinguished Armenians who made Armenian art accessible for the
world.
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Aram Khachaturian
YEREVAN (ArmRadio)-June 6 is 110th birth anniversary of world-famous
composer Aram Khachaturian. On this occasion an inauguration ceremony
of the 9th Aram Khachaturian competition will take place at Aram
Khachaturian Concert Hall. The concert will feature the State Youth
Orchestra of Armenia and famous cellist Gautier Capucon from France.
This year the competition will seek to identify talented cellists. The
contest will be conducted in three stages and will continue through
June 13. The gala concert and award ceremony will take place on June
14. The prizes will range from 2 to 15 thousand USD.
People gathered at Komitas Pantheon this morning to pay tribute to the
memory of the great composer.
Born in 1903 Aram Khachaturian showed early signs of a love of music,
but his formal training did not begin until 1922, when he was admitted
to the famous Gnessin Institute in Moscow and continued at the Moscow
Conservatory with the eminent composer Myaskovsky.
The first major work of Khachaturian to be performed was his Symphony
No. 1 (1934). International acclaim greeted his 1936 Piano Concerto,
the success of which was quickly duplicated with the 1940 Violin
Concerto, and throughout the 1940s Khachaturian composed many
successful works, such as the Gayane ballet with its famous Saber
Dance (1942), his Symphony No. 2 (1943) and Cello Concerto (1946).
In 1954 he composed the Spartacus ballet, the Suite from which is
probably his best-known work, not least because of its stunning adagio
movement, popularized as the theme for the 1970s British television
series The Onedin Line.
Although remembered primarily as a composer who was most successful in
dealing with pictorial subjects such as ballets, films and incidental
music to plays, Khachaturian was quite active in his later years as a
conductor, especially of his own works.
Khachaturian died in Moscow on May 1, 1978, just short of his 75th
birthday. He was buried in the Komitas Pantheon in Yerevan, along with
other distinguished Armenians who made Armenian art accessible for the
world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdeO9ECSx6Q&feature=player_embedded
http://asbarez.com/110490/today-is-aram-khachaturian%E2%80%99s-110th-birthday-anniversary/