The State Youth Orchestra of Armenia always gives a huge importance to performing of the Armenian composers’ pieces during all of its foreign tours.
The opening ceremony of “Al Bustan” international festival, held on March 15 in Beirut, was marked by the lyrical poem of Dohn Ter-Tadevosyan. The audience accepted it with great warmth.
The evening was accompanied by the talented cellist Edgar Moreau and the Youth Orchestra performing the concert for cello and orchestra by Sergey Prokofiev.
During the second part of the concert the piece of Modest Mussorgsky “Pictures from the exhibition” (orchestration by Maurice Ravel) was performed, conducted by Sergey Smbatyan.
The audience wouldn’t let the musicians of the Youth Orchestra and its conductor leave the stage, cheerfully demanding Bis.
The orchestra played “Sabre Dance”, the legendary masterpiece from the ballet “Gayane”, composed by the most amazing Aram Khachaturian.
It is worth mentioning that this is the third time for the State Youth Orchestra of Armenia to take part in the “Al Bustan” festival as its official orchestra. The participation of the youth orchestra is supported by the Ministry of Culture of RA. The general partner of the Youth Orchestra is VivaCell MTS.
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