BALLETS
“
I consider ballet a great art. Man life’s entire
variety, richness of his moral experiences can be expressed
in it. Ballet evokes love to the beautiful, and its
music should be of a high quality, able to visibly narrate
about the events taking place at the stage…”
Aram Khachaturian.
Aram
Khachaturian is author of the worldwide known ballets
“Gayane” and “Spartacus”. The
creation of them not only raised Armenian national ballet
to the world level, but also noticeably enriched the
treasure house of the world musical-dramatic art. The
themes and melodies from “Gayane” and “Spartacus”
have not lost their extraordinary freshness, brilliance
and vitality up to now, deeply penetrating into the
conscience and hearts of music amateurs, and winning
a broader audience of new generations. It is no accident
that the “Sabre Dance” from “Gayane”
ballet takes up one of the first places in the list
of the most popular musical compositions of our time.
Here are the author’s words about it.
“ There is one disobedient and noisy baby
in my musical family – it’s the ‘Sabre
Dance’ from the ballet ‘Gayane’. To
be quite candid about it, if I had known that it would
become so popular and begin to push away other my other
work, I would have never written it. Somewhere abroad
I am advertised as ‘Mr. Sabredance’. That
even gets me angry. I make it unfair…”
“GAYANE”
"SPARTACUS"
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