Word: aram
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat theater - but his success was a mere icicle on an iceberg, compared with the Russian effort. Every year the Soviet Union dispatches culture delegations containing four to ten fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...
...does not include something from contemporary life, it is like leaving out the meat and potatoes. Their career in contemporary music got its impetus from the fact that they are of Armenian descent. While still a student at Juilliard, in 1942, Maro had to prepare a concerto and chose Aram Khachaturian's now-famed Piano Concerto ("because he was an Armenian"), gave it its U.S. premiere. The concerto was an instant hit and Maro took it on a cross-country tour. Says she: "At that time, Khachaturian seemed very modern; now, of course, he is considered little more than...
...ARAM PHILIBOSIAN Denver...
...line decrees of five years ago (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), Soviet composers have been avoiding "formalism" and trying to write music that even committees of commissars could understand.* Now it looks as if the party line may be switching key again. In the journal Soviet Music, top-ranking Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian calls the system of having committees review and pass judgment on new music a disaster and adds, "Let time and the public judge." Excerpts...
George F. Conley, Jr. 3GSD of Plattsburg, New York, and 358 Harvard Street, will study at the University of Paris; Howard E. Goldfarb 3L of Washington, Pennsylvania, and Story Hall, at the University of Grenoble; Aram J. Kevorkian 3L of Philadelphia and 22 Wendell Street, at the University of Strasbourg...