Music By Armenian Composer Banned In Baku

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MUSIC BY ARMENIAN COMPOSER BANNED IN BAKU

Freemuse
June 10 2014

Azerbaijan: Music by Armenian composer banned in Baku

In: Uncategorized/By: Media monitoring//

Organisers of the forthcoming European Rhythmic Gymnastics
Championships, which is held in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku, have asked
the Belarusian team to refrain from playing music by Armenian composer
Aram Khachaturian, head coach of the Belarusian team Irina Laperskaya
told a press conference in Minsk.

The Azerbaijani authorities have long banned Armenian nationals and
ethnic Armenian citizens of third countries, including Turkey, from
travelling to Azerbaijan. They consider any Armenian presence in the
country an affront to its honour and the memory of Azerbaijanis killed
in the unresolved conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh.

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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