Armenia News News Armenia » Music: Spiritual Music of Armenia: A Living Religions Playlist
For Armenians around the world, religion plays a large role in daily life and cultural identity. This prayer, which translates to “The Lord’s Prayer,” is from Komitas Vardapet’s arrangement of the ...
News Armenia » Music: Armenian chamber music album was co-conceived by UCLA professor
A new album of contemporary chamber music might never have come into existence without UCLA professor Movses Pogossian. Recorded on the UCLA campus, the album, Con Anima, is also among a select number ...
News Armenia » Music: Armenian music finds a resonant home in Chennai
Armenian Chamber Orchestra performed at The Music Academy, showcasing how traditions separated by geography can find common ground in melody, rhythm, tonal colour and the emotional language of music.
News Armenia » Music: Folklore of the Silicon Mountains: Music, Tech, and the Future in 21st-Century Armenia
Since the decentralization of Armenia’s cultural sector in the 1990s, Armenian traditional artists have found unlikely patrons in industries seemingly unrelated to cultural heritage. This talk focuses ...
News Armenia » Music: Jam Session: How Armenian Jazz Improvised Its Way Onto The World Stage
In order to perform and ‘conceal’ jazz, musicians translated the names of the Jazz Standards into the local language and added elements of local folk music into their performances. Note: Originally ...
News Armenia » Music: These Soulful, Soothing Armenian Songs and Instrumentals Blend East With West
One of the first times that Ara Dinkjian performed on stage with his father was in New York City during the 1964 World’s Fair. Dressed in a costume that his mother sewed consisting of baggy pants, a ...
News Armenia » Music: Armenian American music celebrated in ‘We Thrive’ film
A new documentary, “We Thrive,” celebrates the history of Armenian music in Detroit. Armenians and Armenian Americans have long been a part of Detroit’s rich cultural tapestry, and with them these ...
News Armenia » Music: Levon Eskenian: Giving Voice to the Sacred Lineage of Armenian Music
It is not often you come across a musician whose work feels like a bridge—between cultures, centuries, and inner worlds. Levon Eskenian, the Armenian musician and artistic director behind the ...
News Armenia » Music: Celebrate Armenian History Month with these musicians
Lucy Yeghiazaryan immigrated to New York at just 12 years of age, and the artist is known to draw on her Armenian identity as an inspiration to deliver powerful renditions of jazz standards and ...
News Armenia » Music: Honoring Armenian Genocide Remembrance Through Music
The UCLA Herb Alpret School of Music invites you to watch Danielle Segen from the UCLA Herb Alpret School of Music reflect on her introduction to Armenian culture through music. A UCLA Alumna, Segen ...
News Armenia » Music: Travel to the Lost Homelands of Armenia on a Musical Tour Led by Kitka
For 40 years now, an all-female vocal ensemble from Oakland has led audiences in the Bay Area and beyond down a musical rabbit hole to visit the imagined recesses of our collective past in Europe and ...
News Armenia » Music: System of a Down addresses Armenia conflict in first new music in 15 years
Nov. 6 (UPI) --Heavy metal band System of a Down has returned with its first new music in 15 years. The group released the songs "Protect the Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz" on Friday in response to ...