Gohar Gasparyan’s Civil Funeral To Take Place Today

GOHAR GASPARYAN’S CIVIL FUNERAL TO TAKE PLACE TODAY

ArmRadio.am
18.05.2007 10:33

Today at 18:00 famous singer Gohar Gasparyan’s civil funeral will be
held at 20, Baghramyan 50B.

The last farewell will be bid tomorrow at the National Theatre of
Opera and Ballet after Alexander Spendiaryan. The funeral will take
place the same day in the Komitas Pantheon.

Gohar Gasparyan was born in 1924 in Cairo. She studied at the local
musical academy. In 1948 she was repatriated. Since 1949 she played the
leading roles in 23 operas at the National Theater of Opera and Ballet
of Armenia. There were 500 compositions in her concert repertoire.

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS