Arts & Culture

By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach Special to the Mirror-Spectator YEREVAN — “The world is changing, and so are human values. Only music remains a constant spiritual island.” These wise words are those[...]

NEW YORK — Award-winning author and poet Peter Balakian will lead a discussion in honor of the Armenian Genocide commemoration from his new book of essays and poetry, Ozone Journal,[...]

By Alan Whitehorn I am the grandson of an orphan of the 1915 Genocide. Several years ago I thought about what I should do as 2015, the 100th memorial year[...]

By Alin K. Gregorian Mirror-Spectator Staff LOS ANGELES — Since 2015, the year marking the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, the floodgates have opened to mark this bitter anniversary not[...]

NEW YORK — Composer Joseph Bohigian is curating a concert for the Composer’s Voice Concert Series featuring music by Stony Brook composers on Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at[...]

WATERTOWN — On April 7, the Armenian Museum of America will be hosting a book presentation and signing with Heather Martin, the author of new book, Reclaiming Konia: A Tale[...]

NEW YORK — On March 2, notable musicians, musicologists and artists from nearby states gathered to celebrate in splendid setting the 90th birthday of Lucine Amara, the sublime Armenian singer,[...]

By Florence Avakian NEW YORK — The 28th anniversary of the Sumgait pogroms was remembered and commemorated on February 28 at St. Vartan Cathedral. It was sponsored and organized by Marina[...]

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff WATERTOWN — Actor and director Gerald Papasian screened a video recording of the opera buffa “Gariné” on March 6 at the newly renovated Armenian General[...]

By Florence Avakian Special to the Mirror-Spectator NEW YORK — World famous jazz impresario George Avakian was honored at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln[...]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the course of research and writing, Dr. Sonia I. Ketchian of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University occasionally comes upon a[...]