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CONCERT IN LONDON ON KOMITAS' 145TH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
15:16, 22 Oct 2014
As this year marks Komitas' 145th anniversary, Music of Armenia
will organize a concert in London dedicated to the founder of modern
Armenian classical music. The concert will take place at Lumen Church
and Cafe on November 27.
Performing on the night will be young talented Armenian and British
musicians who consider Komitas' music an important part of their
repertoire.
Komitas was an ethnomusicologist and composer who created the basis
for a distinctive national musical style in Armenia. He was also the
most important collector of Armenian folk songs.
On April 24, 1915, the day when the Armenian Genocide officially began,
he was arrested and put on a train the next day together with 180
other Armenian notables and sent to the city of Cankiri in northern
Central Anatolia, at a distance of some 300 miles.
His good friend Turkish nationalist poet Mehmet Emin Yurdakul,
the writer Halide Edip, and the U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau
intervened with the government, and, by special orders from Talat
Pasha, Komitas was dispatched back to the capital, but the nightmare
he had experienced left a deep ineradicable impression on his soul.
Komitas remained in seclusion from the outer world, absorbed in his
gloomy and heavy thoughts - sad and broken.
In the autumn of 1916, he was taken to a hospital in Constantinople,
Hôpital de la paix, and then moved to Paris in 1919, where he died
in a psychiatric clinic in Villejuif in 1935. Next year, his ashes
were transferred to Yerevan and buried in the Pantheon that was named
after him.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/10/22/koncert-in-london-on-komitas-145th-birth-anniversary/
From: Baghdasarian
15:16, 22 Oct 2014
As this year marks Komitas' 145th anniversary, Music of Armenia
will organize a concert in London dedicated to the founder of modern
Armenian classical music. The concert will take place at Lumen Church
and Cafe on November 27.
Performing on the night will be young talented Armenian and British
musicians who consider Komitas' music an important part of their
repertoire.
Komitas was an ethnomusicologist and composer who created the basis
for a distinctive national musical style in Armenia. He was also the
most important collector of Armenian folk songs.
On April 24, 1915, the day when the Armenian Genocide officially began,
he was arrested and put on a train the next day together with 180
other Armenian notables and sent to the city of Cankiri in northern
Central Anatolia, at a distance of some 300 miles.
His good friend Turkish nationalist poet Mehmet Emin Yurdakul,
the writer Halide Edip, and the U.S. Ambassador Henry Morgenthau
intervened with the government, and, by special orders from Talat
Pasha, Komitas was dispatched back to the capital, but the nightmare
he had experienced left a deep ineradicable impression on his soul.
Komitas remained in seclusion from the outer world, absorbed in his
gloomy and heavy thoughts - sad and broken.
In the autumn of 1916, he was taken to a hospital in Constantinople,
Hôpital de la paix, and then moved to Paris in 1919, where he died
in a psychiatric clinic in Villejuif in 1935. Next year, his ashes
were transferred to Yerevan and buried in the Pantheon that was named
after him.
http://www.armradio.am/en/2014/10/22/koncert-in-london-on-komitas-145th-birth-anniversary/
From: Baghdasarian