BOSTON, Mass.—The Friends of Armenian Culture Society
(FACS) in collaboration with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) will
present a special concert on Sun., Oct. 18, at 3 p.m. to commemorate the
Centennial of the Armenian Genocide. The event will take place at Jordan Hall
of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Tigran Mansurian (Photo: musicofarmenia.com)
“Resilient Voices: 1915-2015” will feature the Boston
premiere of Tigran Mansurian’s monumental “Requiem,” composed and dedicated to
the victims of the Armenian Genocide.
Joining forces with the orchestra will be the
Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Boston University Marsh Chapel
Choir, all under the direction of BMOP music director Gil Rose.
In addition to the Requiem, the concert will also feature
music by Komitas Vartabed to mark the 70th anniversary of the passing of the
iconic priest-composer (Oct. 22, 1935, in Paris); a rarely performed work by
Boston’s own Alan Hovhaness titled, “Khrimian Hairig”; and the Piano Concerto
No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich with Nareh Arghamanyan as piano soloist.
Born in 1939 in Beirut, Lebanon, Tigran Mansurian is
arguably Armenia’s foremost composer. The Los Angeles Times has described him
as a “composer of music in which deep cultural pain is quieted through an
eerily calm, heart-wrenching beauty. … It is music that doesn’t so much
transcend suffering as absorb it, become one with it.”
The Requiem was commissioned by the Munich Chamber
Orchestra; it was composed in 2009 and received its world premiere in Berlin in
2011 to critical acclaim.
Hovhaness’s “Khrimian Hairig” is a tribute to Mkrticih
Khirimian, the patriarch of Armenians in Istanbul who later became Catholicos
of All Armenians in 1892. It was in this last capacity that Hairig ordained
Komitas, future composer and musicologist, as a celibate priest in 1894.
Khrimian earned the title of Hairig (“Father” in Armenian) by the people of the
Armenian provinces of the Ottoman Empire for his relentless efforts to bring
about social and economic reforms. In the words of the prolific composer, the
work, composed in October 1944 for trumpet and string orchestra, was “inspired
by a portrait of the heroic priest who led the Armenian people through many
persecutions.”
Highly acclaimed for her unique style, colorful tone, and
dazzling virtuosity, pianist Nareh Arghamanyan is one of the promising talents
of her generation. A laureate of many international piano competitions,
including first-prize winner at the 2008 Montreal International Music Competition,
Arghamanyan is a regular guest at international festivals such as the
Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Festival de Lanaudière, Marlboro Festival,
and Singapore Piano Festival. She attended Tanglewood Music Festival in 2008 as
a Fellow of the Friends of Armenian Culture Society, following an outstanding
appearance with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Arghamanyan works with some of the
world’s great conductors, including Alain Altinoglu, John Axelrod, Stefan
Blunier, Carl St. Clair, Sir Neville Marriner, Michael Sanderling, Jean-Marie
Zeitouni, and Christoph Poppen. She has three recordings with the prestigious
Pentatone label. Her latest recording, released in 2014, includes the Piano
Concerto No. 3 of Prokofiev and the Khachaturian Piano Concerto, with the Radio
Symphony Orchestra of Berlin and Maestro Alain Altinoglu.
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project is the premier
orchestra in the United States dedicated exclusively to commissioning,
performing, and recording music of the 20th and 21st centuries. Founded by
Artistic Director Gil Rose in 1996, BMOP has championed composers whose careers
span nine decades. BMOP’s distinguished and adventurous track record includes
premieres and recordings of monumental and provocative new works such as John
Harbison’s ballet “Ulysses,” Louis Andriessen’s “Trilogy of the Last Day,” and
Tod Machover’s “Death and the Powers.” A perennial winner of the ASCAP Award
for Adventurous Programming, the orchestra has been featured at festivals
including Opera Unlimited, the Ditson Festival of Contemporary Music with the
ICA/Boston, Tanglewood, the Boston Cyberarts Festival, the Festival of New
American Music (Sacramento, Calif.), Music on the Edge (Pittsburgh, Pa.), and
the MATA Festival in New York. BMOP has actively pursued a role in music
education through composer residencies, collaborations with colleges, and an
ongoing relationship with the New England Conservatory, where it is Affiliate
Orchestra for New Music. BMOP/sound, BMOP’s independent record label, was
created in 2008 and has garnered praise from the national and international
press; it is the recipient of five Grammy Award nominations and its releases
have appeared on the year-end “Best of” lists of the New York Times, the Boston
Globe, National Public Radio, Time Out New York, American Record Guide,
Downbeat Magazine, WBUR, NewMusicBox, and others.
For more information about the “Resilient Voices”
project, visit www.FACSBoston.org.
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