The concert, entitled Ararat, sees the presence of composers and musicians Roberto Paci Dalò e Giacomo Vanelli. The Mount Ararat: sacred peak, lost heart, indelible symbol of Armenian identity. Today it stands beyond the border, in Turkish territory, but continues to dominate the horizon of the capital Yerevan. It is the mountain of Noah’s Ark, of salvation and rebirth, but also the mountain of absence, of denied land, of desire. In the silence of its snow-covered slopes, the condition of the diaspora is reflected, the wound of separation and, at the same time, the hope of a return.
The term Armenian Genocide, sometimes Armenian Holocaust or Armenian Massacre, refers to the deportations and eliminations of Armenians perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1916, which caused approximately 3 million deaths. The Armenian Genocide has never been recognized by the Turkish government. The term genocide was used for the first time by the Polish-Jewish jurist Raphael Lemkin to designate, following the extermination of Armenians carried out in the Ottoman Empire in 1915-16, a new and shocking situation for public opinion; However, it was only after the extermination carried out by the Nazis during the Second World War and the establishment of an international tribunal to punish such conduct that the word genocide began to be used in international language to indicate a specific crime, accepted in both international law and the domestic law of many countries. On the occasion of this commemoration, an intimate concert was conceived, conceived as a moment of reflection, memory and emotional resonance. Two performers – voice, clarinet and electronics – create a sound texture that crosses temporal and geographical boundaries, mixing languages and instruments. Traditional Armenian music is rediscovered, reworked and transformed through the use of electronic technologies and contemporary techniques, without ever losing the deep bond with its roots.
