ARMENIAN COMMUNISTS CRITICIZE A NUMBER OF ART WORKERS, WHO DISPUTE "RESTORATION" OF SOVIET ARMENIA’S HYMN MUSIC
ARMINFO News Agency
October 9, 2006 Monday
"I am sure the attempt to impose the present state hymn "Our
Motherland", alien to the Armenian history and traditions, on our
people will have no success", the first secretary of the Central
Committee of the Armenia’s Communist party, Ruben Tovmassyan,
told ArmInfo.
According to him, one can already unambiguously say about a sabotage
against the most likely winner of the state contest for a new state
hymn of RA on the music of the great Armenian Soviet composer Aram
Khachaturyan. "The public unambiguously trends the music of the Soviet
Armenia’s hymn, written by A. Khachaturyan and it was disgusting
to see the last month’s orgy, arranged by some modern art workers",
R. Tovmasyan said.
"All this anti-Khachaturyan campaign is inspired by a number of
political forces, which suffer from a morbid of love to the "Song of
the Italian Girl" as to the present hymn of the country", R.
Tovmassyan added. "I have nothing against Mikael Nalbandyan,
a well-known revolutionary-democrat of 19th century , but he had
devoted this song to Italy and Austria and it has nothing in common
with Armenia", he said.
To be reminded, upon results of the first round, the Governmental
contest Commission has chosen five versions out of over eighty ones,
which also include the new hymn by A. Khachaturyan’s music. The present
hymn "Our Motherland" has received two voices of the Contest Commission
and did not pass to the second round. According to ArmInfo source data,
the results of the second decisive round of the contest for Armenia’s
hymn will be announced this week to be afterwards submitted for the
RA Parliament’s approval.