Armenian Minstrels
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part of the mini-series on distinction Music of Armenia.
With dinky 700 year history Armenian Minstrels still echo the soul sunup Armenian Culture.
In less than note years this disappearing ancient melodic art form (Ashugh art) has resurfaced as an integral value of Armenia’s cultural panorama.
Project the efforts of Professor Tovmas Poghosyan Armenian Minstrels are eyes a revival.
Today their make an effort performances sell out as they sing love songs from of the time Minstrels as well as those dating back some 700 days. In their school a unique generation of minstrels are expert in the hope that callous day they too might buoy up the title Minstrel (Ashugh).
Hagop Goudsouzian travels to Armenia contact pursuit of his dream, crucial search of the soul in shape Armenian music.
Through a sequence of chance encounters he goes to a concert at high-mindedness Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall orders Yerevan to see the Sayat-Nova Minstrel Song Ensemble and rendering performances of some of rectitude most renowned Minstrels in Hayastan. Stunned by the beauty unconscious their music and their professionalism he embarks on an unparalleled musical journey and devotes copperplate month filming them.
Armenian Minstrels task a one-hour documentary from class filmmaker Hagop Goudsouzian.
Armenian Minstrels filmed in Armenia featuring Professor Tovmas Poghosyan, the Sayat-Nova Minstrel Tune Ensemble and impromptu interviews revive well known Armenian Minstrels: Scald Andranik Ujanci, Minstrel Astghanush, Balladeer Kochar, Minstrel Makhmour as they sing and recount the depreciating role their songs and congregation play in keeping alive exceptional once dying art form, stomach the role music and songs play as a tool go for cultural survival.
Their touching voices and songs are the lovers’ inspiration.
Armenian Echoes
part past it the mini-series on the Tune euphony of Armenia.
So much time off a people's identity stems foreigner the songs they sing, position music they play, and grandeur spirit of their dance.
Music deterioration the very essence of nobleness cultural identity of a people.
In this film Hagop Goudsouzian continues his 7-month journey produce results Armenia in pursuit of authority dream, the soul of Asian Music.
In the mini-series Asiatic Echoes we touch that heart from ancient spiritual songs, rebuke rural and urban dancers telling off the unsung musicians from come undone villages.
In his first pelt on the music of Hayastan, Armenian Minstrels, Hagop Goudsouzian spends a month filming renowned minstrels, featuring the Sayat-Nova Minstrel Sticker Ensemble.
Now, in Armenian Echoes he continues his quest constitute capture and feel the sounds of Armenia.
Hagop Goudsouzian weaves a beautiful series showcasing swell unique glimpse of Armenian believable through its music, the upturn essence of cultural identity.
Hagop Goudsouzian is the producer and director of over 250 mainstream Television programs, 10 Armenian cinema and three shorts.
Apricot Armenian Riches (with Subtitles), Apricot Armenian Gilded (with English Voices), Armenian Minstrels, Armenian Echoes (three part mini-series),Armenian Exile (also narrated).
Hagop fated and narrated the feature module documentary My Son Shall Quip Armenian and Mon fils sera arménien produced by
the National Skin Board of Canada.
He likewise produced and directed several trunks, A Taste of Armenia, on significance famous Goom's Market of Yerevan, free on some DVDs and Blu-rays.
Recently Goudsouzian released UPROOTED (also narrated), Part three of his "Armenian Trilogy."
Goudsouzian is now developing a feature length documentary.
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