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Zhirayr Altunyan, Gagik HambardzumyanLove for music plays big role in the friendship between Merited Artist of RA Zhirayr Altunyan and surgeon Gagik Hambardzumyan. The friends are sure that their meeting was predestined; that was the will of providence… |
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Little Soldier“When I am on the altar, I feel like the little soldier of God”, - says the 12 year old Levon.
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Armine Grigoryan, Semyon BarseghyanThe friendship between the piano player Armine Grigoryan and architect Semyon Barseghyan was based on music. And their marriage only enforced ir and allowed the friends come to know each other under a completely new light…
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Arsine Khanjian“In cinematograpy, it’s impossible to think of Atom Egoyan and Arsine Khanjian separate. This is one of these exceptional cases, when artist creating in other cultures, never loses touch with national characteristics”,- says film critic Garegin Zakoyan.
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Psalm of DavitAfter the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, little Davit decided to wear priest's garment and participate in the Divine Liturgies. The attendance of the boy in St. Gevork Church of Noragavit was a “contagious” joy for his multi-member family. Davit thinks that becoming a priest is very difficult, but he’s going to give it a try, anyway… |
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More than the World and Boundless“There are times, when they leave the mobile phones on, and it is really wrong. It can be that at that moment God listens to your prayer carefully and suddenly that ringing takes you astray…” 12 years old Sargis attends St. Sarkis Cathedral, wears Church garment and proud to be holding the candle over the sanctuary for the fourth month now… |
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Lilit Pipoyan, Anush Ter-MinasyanLilit Pipoyan, musician and composer, is also an architectural theorist. She is friends with architect Anush Ter-Minasyan for over three decades. They can’t imagine their life and friendship without humor…
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Arus AsryanNational artist, renowned actress of Armenian stage – Arus Asryan is remembered with love and owe by the students of V. Achemyan -now artists of an older generation. Ms. Arus was as quiet and silent in real life as stormy she was on stage. As Yervand Ghazanchyan says, playing on the stage with Arus Asryan was a much bigger school than studying in any higher educational institution. Vahram Papazyan characterized the actress as follows: “Arus Asryan’s play is featured by its flexibility, vivid rhythm and preference of marked characters: а fine soubrette and at the same time a comedian”.
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Artur Shahnazaryan and Gagik GhazanchyanComposer, Komitas expert Artur Shahnazaryan and painter Gagik Ghazanchyan are friends since childhood. They have hard time to remember when their friendship started…. Gagik Ghazanchyan remembers that Artur used to be the most precise archer among his friends and later became a “precise” musician. Jokes are that they will still manage to teach each other music and painting. Artur Shahnazaryan thinks that friendship is as needed as then music is. There is no life without song and friendship…. |
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Martin VardazaryanMartin Vardazaryan, National Artist of Armenia, stepped into movie world accidentally, which then turned to be fatal… The music written for the films “Hello, this is Me”, “Saroyan Brothers”, “Labor”, “Solitary Walnut Tree”, “Live Long”, as well as for a number of documentaries and animations is one of the abundant pages of his creative life filled with interesting memories. Maestro himself, his old-time friends, National Artist of Armenia Hrachya Gasparyan, Alexander Grigoryan and Merited Worker of Art Yervand Yerznkyan tell about all these events.
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Rouben MamoulianRouben Mamoulian - stage and film director, creator of “Becky Sharp” (1935), first full-length feature technicolor film, innovator in cinematography, lived and created in the US. “The world is a theatre, and people are actors, the most important thing that matters is to perform well regardless the quality of the play”, - said the classic of cinematography.The play “Rouben Mamoulian and the Rest” lasted for 90 years. Its hero experienced joy and bitterness; he managed to create some unsurpassable films of the times – “Applause”, “Queen Christina”, “Silk Stockings”… The program presents the life and career of Rouben Mamoulian, as well as exclusive shots from his visit to Armenia. Artsvi Bakhchinyan, film critic participated in the program. |
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Roman Balayan“Flights in Dream and Reality”, “Kashtanka”, “Biryuk”, “Save Me, My Charm”...
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