THOUGH WE HAVE GOOD POETS AND COMPOSERS, I AM NOT SURE THAT
A GOOD ANTHEM WILL BE WRITTEN, PAINTER HENRIK GALUKIAN SAYS
23-06-2006 18:35:00 | Armenia | Culture
YEREVAN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN. "I am the fan of Aram
Khachatrian's music and highly appreciate his genius, but the
anthem written by him makes an impression of an army march on
me." Poet Razmik Davoyan expressed such an opinion at the June
23 press conference. According to him, "A.Khachatrian's anthem
is written by head, but there is no heart in it."
Though R.Davoyan is a member of the commission created for
the purpose of selecting lyrics and music for RA national anthem,
he considers that it is senseless to announce a competition and
to fix a term for creating the anthem. "An anthem is not born in
one day and I get surprised how one can sit at a table and
create an anthem. I was also proposed writting lyrics for the
anthem but I refused," the poet mentioned.
"We often say "Mother Armenia" and I think that the anthem
should be a song about mother. And we should have such an anthem
that will be also sung by our children of pre-school age,"
R.Davoyan said.
According to the poet, naturally, many creations will be
presented by the end of the competition, but it is possible that
no work will meet the competition's requirements.
Painter Henrik Galukian also considers that it is senseless
to announce a competition for creating an anthem. He reminded
that a competition was also announced for creating a monument to
Komitas in the Soviet years but none of the works presented at
the competition received the first prize. "Though we have very
good poets and composers, I am not sure that a good anthem will
be written," H.Galukian is convinced.