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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed Armenian duduk music a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity in 2005, while the Armenian duduk and its music element was inscribed on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008. The duduk ...

Grammy-winning singer John Prine, who wrote his early songs in his head while delivering mail and later emerged from Chicago’s folk revival scene in the 1970s to become one of the most influential songwriters of his generation, died on Tuesday. He was 73, Reuters reports. Prine was hospitalized in Nashville on March 26 suffer...

April 7, 2020 - 14:36 AMTPanARMENIAN.Net - Disney animator Hyrum Osmond and actor Josh Gad have teamed up to produce a new series of "Frozen" shorts available on YouTube, The Verge reports. At Home with Olaf follows Gad’s beloved character from the Frozen movies as he gets into a series of hijinks around Arendelle. The first ep...

Renowned Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan will perform from his home on Monday amid nationwide coronavirus lockdown. The concert will begin at 10pm and will be livestreamed on the Armenian government’s official Facebook page. The series of concerts initiated by the government are aimed at making the daily routine of self...

Armenian State Symphony Orchestra (ASSO) initiates online masterclasses run by number of acclaimed musicians and professors. As the Orchestra reported in a release, the first session of the series of online classes was run by Igor Petrushevski, Professor of the Royal Academy of Music and an acclaimed violinist. It is noted that...

The TourStat agency has ranked the History Museum of Armenia in Yerevan among top 10 CIS history and culture museums for visits, virtual tours and exhibitions The top ten also features the State History Museum in Moscow, Belarus National History Museum and Nesvizh National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve in Belarus, the...

The National Centre of Chamber Music will present the performance of Anton Bruckner's “Requiem” to pay tribute to the hero soldiers fallen during the 2016 April War. The video of the performance will be shown on the center’s official Facebook page on April 4, at 8:30pm. Bruckner's “Requiem” has been performed in Armenia for t...

The Grand Canyon was closed to visitors with immediate effect Wednesday, making the Arizona landmark visited by millions each year the latest tourist hotspot to shut over the coronavirus pandemic, AFP reported. The closure follows several warnings in recent days by county officials and Navajo Native American leaders over crowd...

The award-winning singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger, best known for his work with US rock band Fountains of Wayne, has reportedly died at the age of 52 after being diagnosed with coronavirus. He died on Wednesday morning, The Guardian reported, citing Variety. A statement from his family on Tuesday said he was in hospital in...

Singer of the Choir of the Armenian National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet Anna Sardayran passed away aged 50. Deputy Director of the Theatre Karine Kirakosyan told Armenpress news agency, Sardaryan died on Tuesday. “According to the reports we received she has died from pneumonia,” adding the staff at the Theater of Op...