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LORIS TJEKNAVORIAN TO CONDUCT SACRAMENTO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 26, 2012 - 08:32 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra will perform
a final concert of the season on March 31 and April 1, with guest
conductor Loris Tjeknavorian.
The event features works by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian,
American composer Christopher Theofanidis, as well as Tjeknavorian's
own Ararat Suite and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 Pathetique.
"I have written five operas and five symphonies. ... One of my
major works, which has unfortunately not yet been performed, is the
"Book of Revelation." It was supposed to be performed at Carnegie
Hall in 1979, with the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York
Chorale. I composed the entire setting, which takes about five or six
hours for all 23 chapters in the King James version to be performed,"
sacbee.com quoted Tjeknavorian as saying.
"This is a work about Noah's Ark. See, I'm from an area near Mount
Ararat. The mountain is not far from the apartment I grew up in. From
that apartment, you can look out the window and see Ararat Mountain,
which is where the ark landed. So I wrote the story of Noah's Ark.
It's a seven-movement work. It has not been performed in too many
places, so I'm very glad it's being performed in the U.S."
From: A. Papazian
PanARMENIAN.Net
March 26, 2012 - 08:32 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra will perform
a final concert of the season on March 31 and April 1, with guest
conductor Loris Tjeknavorian.
The event features works by Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian,
American composer Christopher Theofanidis, as well as Tjeknavorian's
own Ararat Suite and Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 Pathetique.
"I have written five operas and five symphonies. ... One of my
major works, which has unfortunately not yet been performed, is the
"Book of Revelation." It was supposed to be performed at Carnegie
Hall in 1979, with the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York
Chorale. I composed the entire setting, which takes about five or six
hours for all 23 chapters in the King James version to be performed,"
sacbee.com quoted Tjeknavorian as saying.
"This is a work about Noah's Ark. See, I'm from an area near Mount
Ararat. The mountain is not far from the apartment I grew up in. From
that apartment, you can look out the window and see Ararat Mountain,
which is where the ark landed. So I wrote the story of Noah's Ark.
It's a seven-movement work. It has not been performed in too many
places, so I'm very glad it's being performed in the U.S."
From: A. Papazian