31 August 2006

FORMER FRIENDS

Gegham Badalian has threatened Tigran Petrosian  three years before that he will kill him if he doesn't allow him to fill ballots in favor Robert Kocharian.  Our newspaper was writing on that occasion: «What we saw in Dalar village was simply an awful, sad scene. Stepan Demirchian's empowered person didn’t permit to fill ballots into ballot boxes for what he was sent to police. The head of the village Gegham Badalian who was also Robert Kocharian’s empowered person, declared, “Does he want to be killed?” The killed Tigran Petrosian is on the left side of the photo and Gegham Badalian who has killed him is on the right.  There were friends for some moment.

SONG CONTEST

The ministry of culture was right publishing the texts of five drafts of anthem, which have passed the contest. Unfortunately, the public doesn't have an opportunity to judge the music of those drafts: 5 drafts of anthem must be often sounded on radio and TV, which isn't done yet. I'm sure the anthem is 60% music and 40% words, because it is often produced without the text. Besides, music is more powerful emotionally, than the word is.
Speaking about the published texts I want to stress the following fact: Ararat B/ I guess whose pseudonym it is/, Vahagn Davtian and Liudvig Durian are skilful poets who are worth to become the authors of the national anthem of Armenia. But those respectful poets will admit that they aren’t like Charents. So if the public discusses the texts, it will be meaningless to compete with Charent’s “Es im anush Hayasatani”. This masterpiece is also profitable that there will be no need to read it by heart. The text written by the official of the ministry for Aram Khachatrian's music is non professional and skilful. The ministry suggests introducing to other texts written for Aram Khachatrian's music on www.mrcuyt.am site. But they are worse than the produces examples. It is impossible to compose any high quality verse for the already composed music.
Aram Khachatrian's music is impressive. The composer has used the tunes of medieval “sharakan” /church songs/, which doesn’t only show the composer’s talent but patriotism, too.
The selection of anthem isn’t a song festival. This is a political action, however Khachatrian’s music is talented it symbolizes the past epoch, refused ideology. So it shouldn’t display only musical approach here. As for me “Mer Hayrenik” or anthems composed by T. Mansurian’s, E. Erznkian’s, E.  Hovhannisian or R. Amirkhanian are equally adoptable. Let Khachatrian’s music remain as the history.

Aram Abrahamian