PARIS (Combined Sources) — Three-time Oscar-winning composer, songwriter and pianist Michel Legrand died Saturday, January 26, at his home in France. He was 86. The conservatory-trained musician worked across genres[...]
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/BANGKOK — I have known artist Elizabeth Romhild since 2003, when she visited Armenia for the first time with her mother and brother.[...]
NEW YORK — One of the opera world’s hottest stars, Italian Tenor Alessandro Safina, has announced his upcoming US tour, accompanied by Victor Espinola and the renowned Forbidden Saints. The[...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Writers Peter Balakian and Susan Barba will partake in a program on January 25 as part of a series of fund raisers for the Grolier Book Shop,[...]
LONDON (Flickering Myth) — From acclaimed director Johnny Kevorkian (“The Disappeared”) and British Academy of Film and Television-nominated producer Jack Tarling (“God’s Own Country”), British sci-fi horror “Await Further[...]
By Joe Otterson LOS ANGELES (Variety) — Ryan Murphy has assembled quite the cast for his Nurse Ratched series at Netflix. Murphy announced on January 14 that Sharon Stone, Finn Wittrock, Jon Jon[...]
By Oliver Bullough What does the life of an Ottoman-born ethnic Armenian oil tycoon have to teach us about the modern world? Quite a lot, it turns out, judging by[...]
FRESNO — “Germans and Armenians: Historic and Artistic Relations” is the title of a talk to be given by Dr. Levon Chookaszian, Chair of the Department of Armenian Art History[...]
FRESNO — The Armenian Studies Program at Fresno State, in conjunction with the William Saroyan House Museum, is presenting the international premiere of “Lights! Camera! Saroyan!” on Friday, January 25,[...]
ISTANBUL (Panorama.am) — The first ever-exhibition dedicated to Sergei Paradjanov, a world-renowned Armenian director, artist and scriptwriter, has opened in Istanbul, Turkey. Titled “Paradjanov with Sarkis,” the exhibition opened in[...]
By Artsvi Bakhchinyan Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN/RIGA — I met Latvian photographer Georgs Avetisjans at the end of April in Yerevan, at the height of the Velvet Revolution. Yet[...]
