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 NOTES FROM ARMENIA Michael Morgan, Conductor January 22, 2010 Friday, 8:00pm, Paramount Theatre, Oakland 
 Pre-concert talk by John Kendall Bailey at 7:00pm Program Aram Khachaturian - Violin Concerto (1940) with violinist Mikhail Simonyan Edvard Mirzoyan - Symphony for Timpani and String Orchestra (1962) Lazar Saryan - Panel Armenia (excerpts) (1966) Edgar Hovhannisyan - Yerevan Erebooni & Sardarapat Performed by The Seemorgh Ensemble and select singers from various Bay Area choral groups Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Symphony No. 38, "Prague" (1786) Building on the success of last year's concert featuring Persian music, we'll once again explore classical music from another distant region of the world. This year we'll introduce our audience to the exotic rhythms and instrumentation of music from Armenia, presenting works by both popular and less well-known composers. We are joined by The Seemorgh Ensemble and seelec singers from variuos Bay Area choral groups. We'll open with Mozart's powerful Symphony No. 38, which received its triumphant premiere in Prague. The dynamic, melodic Violin Concerto by famous Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian will feature the brilliant young Siberian-born violinist Mikhail Simonyan, who at 23 is already recognized as one of the most celebrated talents of his generation. Also on the program is Edvard Mirzoyan's exciting work for orchestra and solo timpani, and Lazar Saryan's Panel Armenia, which was inspired by the paintings of the composer's father, the great Armenian painter Martiros Saryan. (Suitable for children 10 and over.) |
 "Simonyan brought breadth, lyricism, and fleet technique to this ruminative, extravagantly scored music... he played as if every note counted." ~The New York Times 
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Podcast of Michael Morgan about this concert  The Seemorgh Ensemble  Artin Der Minassians, Artistic Director & Concuctor The Seemorgh Ensemble |