Hideko Udagawa, the great-granddaughter of Japan's historically most influential prime ministers has come to Armenia to present her mastery. {BR} As a protégée of Nathan Milstein, she has inherited the great Russian romantic tradition of violin playing. Ms Udagawa made her orchestral debut in London with the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Charles Mackerras, playing Bruch's G minor concerto...

In Holy Echmiadzin the executive body of the Committee on Orthodox participation in the World Church Council started its work.{BR} During the meeting the Committee comprising more than 16 top clergymen discussed church, public and moral issues, matters related to the WCC membership. This was the last meeting of the ad hoc Committee in Echmiadzin which aimed at summing up the results of the Committee's...

Yesterday the representatives of 3 generations stood side by side and listened to the music which was mostly listened to while the oldest of them was young. In the frames of the program “Jazz days in Armenia” in the Aram Khachatryan music hall the Armenian Jazz band, the Armenian public radio and TV Big Band and the Jazz veterans played. {BR} “I don’t like the word ‘veterans’. 35 years is not the age of a veteran. It’s better to say...

What is the color of jazz? «Jazz has so many colors that it is factually colorless. And today it depends on the music that will sound», says Vardan Ayvazyan, student of the Yerevan Art Institute after Terlemezyan. He is one of the 15 participants of the competition of artists «Colors of Jazz» which started today in the Artist's House. {BR} Students of the Yerevan State Art Academy and Art Institute...

23 thousand visitors, 5 tens of excursions, several lectures and a half-hourly documentary entitled “Minsk. Autumn. Saryan” transmitted on the central television – all this took place during the first exhibition of Martiros Saryan’s works in Belarus. {BR} The exhibition organized by the RA Embassy in Belarus with the active support of the House-Museum of Saryan was open in...

A concert in commemoration of the victims of the Armenian Genocide will take place in the hall after Aram Khachaturyan on April 8 at 7 p.m. local time, maestro Alexander Siranosyan informed today. He will conduct the State Philharmonic Orchestra of Armenia while he daughter, cellist Astghik Siranosyan will be the soloist. The program includes the “The Symphonic Poem and “The Poem for...

To celebrate the 200-th birthday of the famous tale-teller Days of Hans Christian Andersen will be held in the Armenian schools during two months. {BR} Today Future is Yours social and charitable organization and the Armenian National Committee on UNESCO issues organized an event in the Children's Library after Khnko-Aper. 5 fairy tales by Andersen were re-published in Tigran Mets publishing house....

The U.S. Embassy organizes jazz days in Armenia. The celebration is titled «Jazz Appreciation Month» (JAM). This year a full schedule of jazz concerts, activities and events will be presented. {BR} Jazz, though born in America, is truly an international phenomenon. In celebration of this, the Embassy has invited the Otar Magradze Trio from Tbilisi to perform on April 11. From April 9-14 Armenia's...

17 138 scripts are kept in Matenadaran. 14 000 of them are written in the Armenian language and about 3000 – in foreign languages. Matenadaran is the biggest institute-depository of the Armenian scripts. {BR} In the words of Director of Matenadaran Sen Arevshatyan, the scripts are either purchased with the funds of a sponsor or gifted. On the occasion of the 1600-th anniversary of the invention...

Philip Kirkorov agreed to give concerts in Yerevan almost without honorarium, the arrangers of the concert tour, David Manukyan LTD administration stated at today’s press conference. {BR} When replying to the question why the tickets are so expensive, the arrangers said that the city administration will receive a profit from the concerts and the sum will be conveyed to the Yerevan Foundation....

Today in the Press house the rewarding ceremony after the famous publicist Tigran Hayrapetyan took place. The grand prize was won by Edgar Araqelyan charges with the case of April 12-13. Nikol Pashinyan, editor of the newspaper “Armenian Times” who was giving the prize to him, said they had been thinking long how to formulate the prize. {BR} Finally they have decided to give him the prize “for using the empty bottle for what it was supposed...

On March 5, 2005 the Film Programs Department of the National Gallery of Armenia with the support of the Public Affairs Section of the US Embassy in Armenia, will launch a Billy Wilder film retrospective. The purpose of the program is to present the artistic heritage of one of Hollywood’s most consistent and endurable filmmakers. 16 different films directed by Billy Wilder will be screened during...

According to the map issued by the center of the environment examination and preservation of the American University of Armenia, the forest area, which made 2848 square kilometers in 1991, will be reduced to 1168 square kilometers by the year 2010.{BR} Head of the department for the foreign affairs of the Academy of Agriculture, lector of the silviculture faculty, candidate of geographic sciences...

”Some years ago the book “Armenians in Turkey” by Tsatour Aghayan was published where the author told about his meetings in Turkey. There is an event in this book about Hakob Martayan, chief editor of the Turkish encyclopedia, whom Ataturk had called “dilachar”, that is – “key of to tongue”, while he himself had called Ataturk “Father if Turks”....

The annual TV contest-festival of children and youth songs “Arevik” will be held in the theater after Gabriel Sundukyan on March 9. On this occasion the administration of the Arevik group rendered a press conference in the House of Journalists. {BR} Arevik contest-festival was founded in 2000 on the initiative of Armen Divanyan. It is a contest open for all the interested from Armenia...

“Beauty of an individual within art – this is the way the images I create can be characterized’’, florist Nadezhda Oganesova said at the exhibition of her works in the UN Yerevan Office. {BR} She doesn’t use a pencil, a brush or aquarelle in her work. She creates images with the dried leaves of different flowers. Let us note that being a biologist she devotes her free...

The Head of the Church of Denmark, Bishop Erik Norman Svendsen visited the Catholicosate of Kilikia on the 8th of February and held a meeting with His Holiness Aram I. The two spiritual leaders discussed issues related to Christian education and inter-church relations.{BR} His Holiness expressed his belief about the importance of renewing the ecumenical movement and making it relevant to people's lives....

After 11 years of “wandering” the Yerevan History Museum will at last aquire its own roof, to be more precise – its museum building. The museum, which has been situated in the building of the former executive committee after A. Spandaryan since 1997, will hence be situated in the new building of the Yerevan City Hall. According Museum Director Armine Sargsian, the move will...

The Head of the Russian Fashion House Vyacheslav Zaytsev will represent his collection of women's clothes for the first time in Armenia in fall. {BR} It has been 2 years since Zaytsev's Fashion House under the trade mark «Rivelex» has been creating only clothes for men. During the press conference in the hall of Armenpress, Mr. Zaytsev announced that there will also be clothes for stout women....

January 27 the Armenian official delegation headed by Prime Minister Andranik Margarian will depart for Krakow, Poland, to take part in the ceremony dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Oswiecim concentration camp. Official representatives of other states are also expected to take part in the measure. On the evening of January 26th the heads of the delegations are invited to a formal...

This Saturday, the Armenian Church remembers St. Sarkis the Warrior and his son, St. Mardiros. It is a moveable feast day that generally occurs between January 11 and February 15. It follows the five-day Fast of Catechumens. Although the Fast is not connected to St. Sarkis, it has become to be associated with this saint who enjoy a special popularity among the Armenians. Sarkis lived during the fourth...

Zaven Khachikyan’s We Come from Childhood photo exhibition opened Wednesday in Yerevan’s Moscow cinema.{BR} 30 pictures of Armenian children were exposed there. Among them were those who have witnessed the 1988 devastating earthquake and Karabakh war. Through his photographs, Khachikyan shows his world vision and his attitude toward reality. “I deal with real life”, he says.

Famous Armenian songstress Gohar Gasparyan who enjoys “Nightingale of the Armenian Song” title is celebrating her 80th birthday today. It’s the first anniversary in her life she celebrates without husband – Tigran Levonyan. By a strange coincidence today is the birthday of Tigran levonyan, too. {BR} The official measures devoted to the 80th anniversary of Gohar Gasparyan will...

”Split and breakdown of people’s will endanger Armenia like the other post-Soviet states”, writer and publicist Armen Hovanisyan thinks. {BR} Representatives of various social unions have today gathered in the hall of National Academy of Sciences. They are alarmed for the attitude of state towards culture in Armenia. Both in the Constitution in force and in 3 constitutional bills...