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In times of trouble Komitas speaks for the nation: BBC Music Magazine review
BBC Music Magazine presents Michael Church's review about Komitas. In the article, Michael Church explores the enduring influence of Komitas, the composer and pioneering folk collector whose career met a brutal end.
"All Armenian musicians perform Komitas’s folk-song arrangements or make their own arrangements of the songs he collected. When Armenians around the world gather on 24 April, Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, to commemorate the 1.5 million of their countrymen slaughtered by Turks in 1915, it’s Komitas’s songs they sing. In a memorable YouTube clip from last autumn’s Armenian-Azeri war, an Armenian cellist (Sevak Avanesyan,-ANM Media) plays a haunting Komitas melody in a ruined Armenian church. For Armenians, music is memory, and in times of trouble Komitas speaks for the nation", Church emphasizes.
Find the whole article here.
"All Armenian musicians perform Komitas’s folk-song arrangements or make their own arrangements of the songs he collected. When Armenians around the world gather on 24 April, Armenian Genocide Memorial Day, to commemorate the 1.5 million of their countrymen slaughtered by Turks in 1915, it’s Komitas’s songs they sing. In a memorable YouTube clip from last autumn’s Armenian-Azeri war, an Armenian cellist (Sevak Avanesyan,-ANM Media) plays a haunting Komitas melody in a ruined Armenian church. For Armenians, music is memory, and in times of trouble Komitas speaks for the nation", Church emphasizes.
Find the whole article here.
