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TODAY IS ARAM KHACHATURIAN'S 111TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
17:03 06.06.2014
Alisa Gevorgyan
"Radiolur"
Today is 111th birth anniversary of world-famous composer Aram
Khachaturian. On this occasion the solemn opening ceremony of the 10th
Aram Khachaturian competition will take place at Aram Khachaturian
Concert Hall tonight.
The official orchestra of the competition, the State Youth Orchestra of
Armenia (artistic director and principal conductor Sergey Smbatyan)
and the soloist Armen Babakhanyan, winner of many international
competitions and the Chairman of the Jury of the Aram Khachaturian
International Piano Competition, will perform at the opening ceremony.
Twenty-six musicians will participate in the competition this year.
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 rumbustious Piano
Concerto of 1936, the success of which was quickly duplicated with the
Violin Concerto of 1940, and throughout the 1940s Khachaturian composed
many successful works, such as the ballet Gayane with its famous Sabre
Dance (1942), his Symphony No. 2 (1943) and Cello Concerto (1946).
In 1954 he composed the ballet Spartacus, the Suite from which is
probably his best-known work, not least because of its stunning adagio
movement, popularised 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdeO9ECSx6Q
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/06/06/today-is-aram-khachaturians-111th-birthday-anniversary/
17:03 06.06.2014
Alisa Gevorgyan
"Radiolur"
Today is 111th birth anniversary of world-famous composer Aram
Khachaturian. On this occasion the solemn opening ceremony of the 10th
Aram Khachaturian competition will take place at Aram Khachaturian
Concert Hall tonight.
The official orchestra of the competition, the State Youth Orchestra of
Armenia (artistic director and principal conductor Sergey Smbatyan)
and the soloist Armen Babakhanyan, winner of many international
competitions and the Chairman of the Jury of the Aram Khachaturian
International Piano Competition, will perform at the opening ceremony.
Twenty-six musicians will participate in the competition this year.
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 rumbustious Piano
Concerto of 1936, the success of which was quickly duplicated with the
Violin Concerto of 1940, and throughout the 1940s Khachaturian composed
many successful works, such as the ballet Gayane with its famous Sabre
Dance (1942), his Symphony No. 2 (1943) and Cello Concerto (1946).
In 1954 he composed the ballet Spartacus, the Suite from which is
probably his best-known work, not least because of its stunning adagio
movement, popularised 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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdeO9ECSx6Q
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/06/06/today-is-aram-khachaturians-111th-birthday-anniversary/