Jesus, the Armenian
Our liason with the Beckett estate recently wrote in to share this passage from Gary Wills latest book, What Jesus Meant:
Aram Khatchaturian - Violin Concerto (Scottish National Orchestra; N. Järvi, Lydia Mordkovitch)
- I. Allegro con fermezza
- II. Andante sostenuto
- III. Allegro vivace
Incidentally, her latest book has just been released:
"For two years, Jesus slipped through the traps set for him. He moved like a fish in the sea of his lower-class fellows. He kept on the move, in the countryside. If I think of music to be heard in the background of his restless mission, it is the scurrying agitato that opens the Khachaturian violin concerto."Decide for yourselves if he's right.
Aram Khatchaturian - Violin Concerto (Scottish National Orchestra; N. Järvi, Lydia Mordkovitch)
- I. Allegro con fermezza
- II. Andante sostenuto
- III. Allegro vivace
Incidentally, her latest book has just been released:
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posted by jodru at 01:50
2 Comments:
Well if Wills is right--then Jesus Christ was more like a bumble bee or a mosquito than anything else.
Such frenzy in the opening of that Violin piece--to which Wills refers!
I think if Jesus was Armenian, he'd be more like a Komitas--wandering and collecting folk music...
Mr. Khachaturian is considered more like Rimsky-Korasakov and Russian than Armenian, by many contemporary Armenian composers....
thank you for sharing Khachaturian, regardless. I enjoy any Armenian composer I've come across...
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