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Republican Contest Of Duduk-Players To Be Held In Yerevan Within Frameworks Of UNESCO
From: "Katia M. Peltekian" <kpeltekian@yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:10:31 +0500 (AMST) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPUBLICAN CONTEST OF DUDUK-PLAYERS TO BE HELD IN YEREVAN WITHIN FRAMEWORKS OF UNESCO Author: Hakobian Hasmik Noyan Tapan News Agency, Armenia Oct 4 2007 YEREVAN, OCTOBER 4, NOYAN TAPAN. The music of the Armenian duduk was proclaimed to be one of the oral non-material cultural masterpieces of the humanity by the UNESCO in 2005, and the National Commission of Armenia for UNESCO committed itself to implement a number of programs during five years directed at the propaganda of duduk. According to the information provided to a Noyan Tapan correspondent by duduk-player Gevorg Dabaghian, a republican contest of duduk-players will be organized in the Armenian Choral Society on October 6, within the frameworks of the program, and more than forty duduk-players aged 14-35 will take part in this contest. The contest will have two stages. Cash prizes are determined for the first, second and third places, an encouraging prize has also been determined. The personnel of the jury consists of Davit Ghazarian, the Head of the Choral Society, Arzas Oskanian and Alina Pahlevanian, professors of the Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas, tar-player Norayr Davtian, RA honorable artist Georgi Minasov, and composer Jirayr Altunian. Gevorg Dabaghian also declared that a "Duduk manual" has already been published for the purpose of propagadizing the duduk, in which the analytical articles of famous artists are presented, which once again prove that the duduk is an Armenian instrument and that Armenia is its homeland. Duduk courses of high qualification have been held in all the regions of the republic for the past two years. "My goal is to do everything so as the duduk that is widely spread throughout the world keeps to its pure and natural state. We try to represent our national musical instrument in the right way through the courses conducted in the regions of the republic," Gevorg Dabaghian mentioned. The duduk-player also stated that a great number of children study in the department of the duduk in schools of music, in difference to other folk instruments. |
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