AZG Armenian Daily #025, 09/02/2008
Culture
THE YOUTH OF WORLD ARMENIAN CONGRESS MET WITH ARA
GEVORGIAN
Composer, RA Honored Artist Ara Gevorgian was recently
the guest of World Armenian Congress’ Association of
Youth Organizations (AYO).
Vice-president of World Armenian Congress (WAC)
Vladimir Aghayan presented the guest with the history
of the Congress attaching great importance to similar
meetings organized by AYO.
"I have been devoted to my work in all my life and
worked unselfishly. You do the same and I welcome
you", said Ara Gevorgian.
The composer spoke of his recent record titled "Love
each other". It is an appeal for peace and creative
work. He worked on the project 7 years and brought
together different musicians of different nations;
each of them plays on his/her national instrument.
According to Ara Gevorgian, the project is exclusive
as different cultures and civilizations are
synthesized in it.
"We are a peaceful nation – a nation that builds
monasteries and schools. We have a rich culture and
unique cultural heritage. We have no right to give
that heritage to others", said Ara Gevorgian.
He also spoke of his concert held in Kremlin recently.
During the concert, parallel with the music Armenian
historic-cultural relics, masterpieces of miniature
painting and Armenian alphabet were shown on big
screens. After the concert many foreigners approached
the composer and exclaimed, "You have a wonderful
country".
>From August to November Ara Gevorgian will be on tour
in Sydney, Aleppo, Beirut, Athens, Dubai, Moscow,
Paris, Montreal, Toronto, New York, Los Angeles,
Boston, San Francisco and other cities that have big
Armenian communities.
The composer considers his "Adana" song one of his
biggest projects that is performed by representatives
of 17 nations, among them – Turkish, Persian, Jewish.
On April 24, 2005, the singers arrived in Yerevan and
performed "Adana" in Tsitsernakaberd Memorial
dedicated to Armenian Genocide victims.
By Davit Sargsian, translated by L.H.