ALMA TO HOST “THE BELLS: FROM POE TO SARDARABAD” PROGRAM
PanARMENIAN.Net
December 3, 2011 – 10:20 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Dr. James Russell, Mashtots Professor of Armenian
Studies at Harvard University, will present a program on “The Bells:
>From Poe to Sardarabad” on Thursday evening, December 15, 2011 at
the Armenian Library and Museum of America.
Church bells are deeply symbolic, and of all musical instruments
may come closest to language. Edgar Allan Poe’s great final poem “The
Bells” is language that comes closest to music. Later the Armenian poet
Ruben Sevak, in Lausanne, wrote a poem, “Bells, Bells!” in reaction
to the Adana massacre; and it echoes in the hidden, unpublished
poems of Yeghishe Charents, who was fascinated by Poe, ALMA said in
a press release.
Finally Paruyr Sevak rings the bells again in his epic poem Anlreli
zangakatun (“The Unsilenced Bell Tower”), changing the tone of their
chiming from the clangor of disaster to the ringing of survival,
defiance, and victory.
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