GLENDALE, JULY 9, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The Lusavorich choir of the U.S. Eastern Diocese National Primacy performed in Glendale on June 25, presenting performances of various genres of the Armenian song. Each song of the program consisting of 24 songs was appreciated by those present," the Asbarez daily writes. This concert of the Lusavorich choir took place with the percept of Aram I Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia who proclaimed the year of 2009 as Year of Youth. The choir consisting of 44 persons, headed by choir-master Partev Gyulumian, had prepared for the concert for a month, had learnt sacred, national, patriotic and folk songs. After the welcome and appreciation speech of primate of the U.S. Eastern Diocese Archbishop Mushegh Martirosian, the Lusavorich choir closed the concert with the Cilicia song.

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