YEREVAN, JULY 30, NOYAN TAPAN. The Open Music Festival will be launched on July 30 with the performance of the Vahagn ensemble of drums. Reporting this in July 29 press conference the organizer of the festival, the art director and principal conductor of the National Chamber Orchestra of Armenia Aram Gharabekian noted that the first concert, like the whole festival, will be of various genres. On July 30, mezzo soprano Anna Mayilian with the works of Komitas, kanon player Narek Kazazian with Khachatur Avetisian's Perpetuum Mobile will also perform at the concert and the Chamber Orchestra will perform works by Aram Khachatrian, Wolfgang Mozart, Joseph Haydn and other famous composers. Touching upon the affordability of the prices for concerts tickets he noted that the scales of the festival and the participation of numerous musicians from abroad need proper expenses because of which the entrance of the concerts could not be free. However, according to A. Gharabekian, taking into account the high standards and the wonderful quality of sound in the concerts it can be mentioned that the tickets are not so expensive. At the end of the conference A. Gharabekian accompanied the reporters to the open-air hall of the Moscow Cinema where all the necessary equipment has been already installed to begin the series of the concerts.

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