SON OF ARAM KHACHATURIAN VISITS FATHER’S GRAVE IN YEREVAN TO MARK COMPOSER 110TH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
13:23, June 6, 2013
Karen Khachaturian, the son of world-renowned composer Aram
Khachaturian, visited the grave of his father at the Komitas Pantheon
in Yerevan to mark the 110th anniversary of his birth.
Karen Khachaturian was accompanied by a number of government officials,
artists, musicians and aficionados of the maestro’s work.
“Aram Khachaturian was tied to Armenia. He often visited to give
concerts. While I often couldn’t accompany him on every visit, I
could always feel that visible and invisible connection to Armenia
and its people,” recounted Karen Khachaturian.
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