Topic: Music

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 Russell Contreras PALM SPRINGS, Calif. (AP) — It’s approaching 9 p.m. and Art Laboe adjusts the microphone as Sister Sledge’s We Are Family ends. “And now it’s time for[...]

LODI, N.J. — The Tekeyan Cultural Association of New York, under the auspices of the TCA Board of Directors of USA and Canada, will present a Valentine’s Dance, on February[...]

DILIJAN, Armenia — Students at the State Art College of Dilijan are ringing in the New Year with music, and with brand new instruments, thanks to the initiative of the[...]

VALLETTA, Malta (Panorama.am) — The artistic director and principal conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan is set to perform his first concert of 2019 in Valletta, Malta.[...]

By Jean Eckian PARIS — That day, Wednesday, December 7, 1988, it was 11:41 in Armenia (8:41 in France – and December 6: 23:41 in Los Angeles), when a terrible[...]

BOSTON — On Friday, October 26, the Old South Church was the venue for a novel musical program oriented toward Eastern Europe with two noted local musicians. Titled “Songs of[...]

By Florence Avakian NEW YORK — It was both a celebration of the 10th anniversary of Direct Help for Armenian People (DHAP), and the 2800th anniversary of Erebuni-Yerevan. DHAP President[...]

LOS ANGELES — Among the cavernous cliffs of the Santa Monica mountains, the sweet hues of Armenian melodies rise into the air, floating high up above the Ford Amphitheatre, where[...]

MONTEBELLO, Calif. — The Edward Hosharian Foundation (EHF) announced in September that its 2018 Scholarship in the amount of $5,000 has been awarded to classical violin student Haig Hovsepian from[...]