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    ROBERT AMIRKHANYAN: "ARMENIAN MUSIC IS CREATED ON THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN BELIEF"

    ARMENPRESS
    APRIL 30, 2010
    YEREVAN

    YEREVAN, APRIL 30, ARMENPRESS: Meeting with the RA People's Artist,
    distinguished composer Robert Amirkhanyan was organized April 29 in
    Yerevan Sayat Nova Music School. Below is the conversation of pupils
    of the school Norayr Zoryan and Elen Hakobyan with the composer.

    - Mr. Amirkhanyan, You have been awarded "St. Mesrop Mshtots" Order
    in 1998. What does it mean to You?

    - In reality, this is the greatest award at this moment.

    - Were you offended from your parents when you were small and if yes
    what do you think about it years after?

    - I am offended from my parents only because they gave me birth early.

    I would like to be a child.

    - Mr. Amirkhanyan, everyone in his/her life plays pranks, do you
    remember such a case and which subject did you like most in school?

    - Running from classes is a very bad thing. As to me, the reason of
    doing it is an uninteresting lesson and not that in another place
    it is better. I cannot forget my teachers of geography and Armenian
    language who did everything to make the lessons unforgettable. Running
    from classes has naughtiness in it. I cannot forget that once in
    conservatory we ran from lessons and together with our professor went
    to a cinema. In general, the small age has not ended yet. I think that
    the most gifted age is the school-year age. Five year old "artist"
    is the most perfect one as no one has managed to give direction to
    him/her yet and he/she is free to display his/her feelings. I think
    that it is necessary to keep the consciousnessof that age in him/her.

    Our admiration of that age toward the world must be preserved till
    the last day of our life. That childhood is not far from me.

    - Mr. Amirkhanyan, did you or do you have now a composer you like
    the most?

    - After being born we are growing, starting recognize the world, we
    are becoming adults and every time we are learning something. With
    each breath we are learning something new. I started creating from a
    very early age when we did not even have a piano and that circumstance
    did not allow me to study music. I have painted a piano keyboard on
    our table and for ours I was sitting at it and playing. My mother,
    of course, was crying - how a child is suffering without a piano. But
    they did not know that I loved that table. The first composer I loved
    the most was my father as he was making me sit on his knees and was
    singing folksongs in my ear. It is very important that a parent sings
    his/her land's song to the child, the music of that land. The second
    composer was Komitas. After taking my age, I was always admiring of
    different names, which were with a clang filling the world. I cannot
    omit also the name of Aram Khachaturyan and of course, Musogorski:
    we cannot be restricted only in the national circles. The world lives
    in a wider family and its aesthetics becomes much more beloved. Though
    the world is open in front of me and there will still be many talented
    people whom I am ready to listen.

    - Mr. Amirkhanyan, 45 years have passed since studying at Eduard
    Mirzoyan's creative class, which is the most remarkable thing to
    remember?

    - The principle, the lessons which our memorable teacher was trying
    to sow and through these lessons we were revealing the principles
    of Komitas music. The greatest merit of Komitas is not that he has
    cleaned the national music giving to it principles of academism and
    self scientific approaches but Komitas managed to present the Armenian
    music to the world as an independent branch in the east and not a type
    of eastern music, but an independent way of music thinking which is
    ready to communicate to world's music composition systems. I compare
    the Armenian music with a church as the Armenian music is created on
    the principles of Christian belief and the latter supposes certain
    self-restriction. There is no superfluity in the Armenian music,
    Armenian music is built with small means, with several sounds which
    just leave magic impact.

    - Did you have incomparable performance which you remember till now?

    - Recently my songs have spread more and different singers are singing
    them. Every time I am getting calls that this or that singer has
    distorted my song. I am thankful that someone is singing my song as
    it revives in his/her soul certain feelings which is very precious
    for me. In this respect I am not striving to make someone sing it
    very good, it is the singer's issue.

    - Mr. Amirkhanyan it is very interesting how is a song being written -
    first the melody then the words? Is there other way?

    - I have written a number of melodies, and I must have learnt the
    technique of writing a music. I catch myself on a thing that I do
    not know how to do it. The most important thing is to preserve the
    admiration toward a sound, a word.
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