Don’t look away: A cellist plays in bombed Armenian cathedral
mainThis is Sevak Avanesyan playing an Armenian song in the bombed Ghazanchetsots Cathedral in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
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Bravo, Mr. Avanesyan.
Bravo for playing the ‘cello rather than shooting a gun.
Best wishes from San Francisco!
Beautiful playing but so heartbreaking at the same time, and that the world has come to this – of unnecessarily killing people and destroying sacred places in the process.
Alas, the world “came to this” millennia ago, before recorded history.
Poignant beauty in the middle of destruction.
Ars vincit omnia
Bravo Svak. The response of Armenians to barbarism!
Famous Armenian-Belgian cellist Sevak Avanesyan played in Shushi (Artsakh, Armenia) at the Cathedral of Holy Christ wich was bombed twice by Azerbaijani army on 8 October 2020. Sevak played Komitas Vardapet’s song-Krunk.
Armenia was the first country in Europe to become Christian in, I think AD 303 and they are rightly proud of the fact, so many places are UNESCO heritage sites. I saw some wonderful churches when I was there and this is all so sad.
One of these musicians won’t be happy about any of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csXoj-AI0Sg
This is what Yusif Eyvasov means when he says that this region inhabited by indigenous Armenians will be taken ‘back’ for Azerbaijan. What a bigoted nationalist pig. This cellist has more artistry in his pinkie than Eyvasov ever has had.
So sad
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