Haig papazian biography of williams
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Hrag Papazian Explores Armenian Identity in Turkey
The third group, the Muslim Armenians, said Papazian, lack institutions that the migrant and local Christian Armenians have which somehow dictate, define and reproduce Armenianness. For the local Armenians, that is the church and community system, while for the migrants, the Armenian state. “The only thing the Muslim Armenians have,” Papazian said, “is a lost past, a lost memory. For them, it is very much lineage-based. You are an Armenian if you have Armenian origins. If you learn that your father or grandfather is Armenian, then you are Armenian, period. There is no religious condition, there is no morality or state…It is about learning about one’s Armenian origins and trying to recuperate what was lost in terms of culture and knowledge and content. They mostly learn this from the elders or from discrimination.”
Some of them did not even have a clue about their Armenian origins until they were discriminated against as infidels
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A French-American ledare, born in Beirut, Lebanon, into a musical family of Armenian origin. His mother, Arpine Pehlivanian, is a Lebanese Armenian classical coloratura soprano singer who fled Lebanon during the Lebanese Civil War. Pehlivanian studied violin and piano from an early age. He emigrated to Los Angeles in 1975, and worked as a violinist before studying conducting with Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, and Ferdinand Leitner. Pehlivanian also attended the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Italy.
In 1991 he became the first American to win the Grand Prize in the history of the Besançon International Conductors' Competition in France. From 2005 until 2008 he was the first foreign ledare Conductor of the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2007 he became Principal Guest Conductor at the musikdrama Theatre of Cagliari in Sardin
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Haig
Haig may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Haig Avenue, football stadium in Southport, England
- Haig, British Columbia, settlement in British Columbia, Canada
- Haig, Nebraska, a community in the United States
- Haig Point Club, private community on Daufuskie Island, South Carolina
- Haig-Thomas Island, one of the Sverdrup Islands in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
- Mount Haig-Brown, mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
- The Haig, a jazz club in Hollywood
Companies and organizations
[edit]- Haig Fund, British charity set up in 1921 more properly the Earl Haig Fund charity
- Haig Homes, a British charity founded in 1928 to provide housing for ex-servicemen
- Earl Haig Fund Scotland, Scottish charity founded in 1921
People
[edit]Mononym
[edit]- Hayk (also transliterated as Haik or Haig or Haig Nahabed), Armenian Patriarch
Given name
[edit]- Haig Acterian, pen name Mihail (1904–c. 1943), Romanian-Armenian film and theater director, critic, dramatist, poet,