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SAYAT-NOVA'S WORKS TO BE PERFORMED IN KREMLIN
10:38, 11 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS. Prominent representatives of the
Armenian music will come together at the State Kremlin Palace to
participate in a great concert dedicated to the 300th anniversary of
outstanding Armenian bard and poet Sayat Nova. The upcoming concert
will be held on October 20.
In a conversation with "Armenpress" the General Producer of "Armenia
Production" Company Valery Saharyan stated from Moscow that they have
initiated the musical event in association with their good partner
Royal Baker Company.
Among other things the General Producer of "Armenia Production" Company
Valery Saharyan underscored that in the first part of the concert the
audience will enjoy the performance introduced by "Sayat-Nova" State
Minstrel Song Ensemble led by the People's Artist of the Republic
of Armenia Tovmas Poghosyan. The second part of the concert will be
dedicated to the Armenian variety singers, such as Alla Levonyan,
Andre, Arman Hovhannisyan, Gevorg and Gourgen Dabaghyans, Inga and
Anoush Arshakyans, Sirusho, Nersik Ispiryan and many others.
Sayat-Nova (14 June 1712, Tiflis - 22 September 1795) meaning 'King
of Songs' in Persian, was the name given to the Armenian poet and
ashik Harutyun Sayatyan. His mother, Sara, was born in Tbilisi,
and his father, Karapet, either in Aleppo or Adana. He was skilled
in writing poetry, singing, and playing the kamancheh. He performed
in the court of Heraclius II of Georgia, where he also worked as a
diplomat and, apparently, helped forge an alliance between Georgia,
Armenia and Shirvan against the Persian Empire. He lost his position
at court when he fell in love with the king's daughter, and spent
the rest of his life as an itinerant bard. In 1795 he was killed in
Haghpat Monastery by the army of Agha Mohammed Khan, and is buried
at the Cathedral of Saint George, Tbilisi.
About 220 songs can be attributed to Sayat-Nova, although he may
have written thousands more. Most of his extant songs are in Azeri,
but he also wrote in Armenian, Georgian and Persian. A number of his
songs are sung to this day. He was also fluent in Arabic.
Sayat-Nova is considered by many to be the greatest ashik (folk
singer-songwriter) that ever lived in the Caucasus. Composer Alexander
Arutiunian wrote an opera called "Sayat Nova". There is a street and
a music school named after him in Yerevan, Armenia, as well as an
Armenian-American dance ensemble in the United States, and a pond
located in Mont Orford, Quebec, and Canada.
The 1968 film "Sayat Nova" directed by Sergei Parajanov - which
was banned in the Soviet Union - follows the poet's path from his
childhood wool-dying days to his role as a courtier and finally his
life as a monk. It was released in the United States under the title
The Color of Pomegranates. It is not so much a biography of Sayat Nova
but a series of tableaux of Armenian costume, embroidery and religious
ritual interspersed with scenes and verses from the poet's life.
In Armenia, Sayat Nova is considered a poet who made a considerable
contribution to the Armenian poetry of his century. Although he lived
his entire life in a deeply religious society, his poems are mostly
secular and full of Romantic expressionism
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http://armenpress.am/eng/news/736179/sayat-novas-works-to-be-performed-in-kremlin.html
10:38, 11 October, 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 11, ARMENPRESS. Prominent representatives of the
Armenian music will come together at the State Kremlin Palace to
participate in a great concert dedicated to the 300th anniversary of
outstanding Armenian bard and poet Sayat Nova. The upcoming concert
will be held on October 20.
In a conversation with "Armenpress" the General Producer of "Armenia
Production" Company Valery Saharyan stated from Moscow that they have
initiated the musical event in association with their good partner
Royal Baker Company.
Among other things the General Producer of "Armenia Production" Company
Valery Saharyan underscored that in the first part of the concert the
audience will enjoy the performance introduced by "Sayat-Nova" State
Minstrel Song Ensemble led by the People's Artist of the Republic
of Armenia Tovmas Poghosyan. The second part of the concert will be
dedicated to the Armenian variety singers, such as Alla Levonyan,
Andre, Arman Hovhannisyan, Gevorg and Gourgen Dabaghyans, Inga and
Anoush Arshakyans, Sirusho, Nersik Ispiryan and many others.
Sayat-Nova (14 June 1712, Tiflis - 22 September 1795) meaning 'King
of Songs' in Persian, was the name given to the Armenian poet and
ashik Harutyun Sayatyan. His mother, Sara, was born in Tbilisi,
and his father, Karapet, either in Aleppo or Adana. He was skilled
in writing poetry, singing, and playing the kamancheh. He performed
in the court of Heraclius II of Georgia, where he also worked as a
diplomat and, apparently, helped forge an alliance between Georgia,
Armenia and Shirvan against the Persian Empire. He lost his position
at court when he fell in love with the king's daughter, and spent
the rest of his life as an itinerant bard. In 1795 he was killed in
Haghpat Monastery by the army of Agha Mohammed Khan, and is buried
at the Cathedral of Saint George, Tbilisi.
About 220 songs can be attributed to Sayat-Nova, although he may
have written thousands more. Most of his extant songs are in Azeri,
but he also wrote in Armenian, Georgian and Persian. A number of his
songs are sung to this day. He was also fluent in Arabic.
Sayat-Nova is considered by many to be the greatest ashik (folk
singer-songwriter) that ever lived in the Caucasus. Composer Alexander
Arutiunian wrote an opera called "Sayat Nova". There is a street and
a music school named after him in Yerevan, Armenia, as well as an
Armenian-American dance ensemble in the United States, and a pond
located in Mont Orford, Quebec, and Canada.
The 1968 film "Sayat Nova" directed by Sergei Parajanov - which
was banned in the Soviet Union - follows the poet's path from his
childhood wool-dying days to his role as a courtier and finally his
life as a monk. It was released in the United States under the title
The Color of Pomegranates. It is not so much a biography of Sayat Nova
but a series of tableaux of Armenian costume, embroidery and religious
ritual interspersed with scenes and verses from the poet's life.
In Armenia, Sayat Nova is considered a poet who made a considerable
contribution to the Armenian poetry of his century. Although he lived
his entire life in a deeply religious society, his poems are mostly
secular and full of Romantic expressionism
© 2009 ARMENPRESS.am
http://armenpress.am/eng/news/736179/sayat-novas-works-to-be-performed-in-kremlin.html