ArmInfo. The Armenian authorities intend to close the Yerevan Conservatory, merging it with other creative universities - the Yerevan Theater and Art Institutes. This issue has been discussed for two years now.
However, opera singer and teacher at the Yerevan Conservatory Anna Poghosyan wrote on her Facebook page about the actual closure of the Conservatory and the sale of this magnificent building in the very center of the capital. She equates this case to the one if the Turks occupied Yerevan.
According to Anna Poghosyan, they plan to open another hotel in the building of the conservatory. The singer called this another act of national catastrophe, which occurs with the tacit consent of the <nation>, but in fact final self-destruction. She emphasized that the conservatory building was built specifically for teaching musical art. "In fact, this is the whole face of our nation, which will soon turn into another brothel. A nation deserves statehood only if art is higher than real estate income," she wrote.
Poghosyan complained that just as there is no Artsakh citizen who publicly opposes the surrender of Artsakh, no general who publicly opposes the destruction of the army, there is no musician who is against the destruction of musical art. She noted that there should have been a revolt of all musicians against the closure of the conservatory, but there was none. In this regard, the singer noted that only a small group of people are horrified by such meanness.
"If you don't want classical music, if you don't want Komitas, then live with Turkish mugham. But one way or another, Hayk will defeat Bel, Armenian music will be revived, Khachaturian and Babajanyan, Spendiaryan and Mirzoyan, our other greats will return, and now the times of traitors have come, which we, the Armenians, must survive," she wrote.
Today, the Rectorate of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory also published a statement on its official Facebook page. "We share the outrage and concern of the music community regarding the future of the only professional music higher education institution. A solution to this issue is only possible if we present our united position in a balanced, reasonable and respectful manner," the statement says.
The source notes that last year the leadership of the Conservatory presented in writing its opinion and position to the Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports, as well as the Chairman of the Scientific Committee and the Strategy Development Commission on the issue of merging art universities.
Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory Rector Sonna Hovhannisyan also spoke about the position of the university's management staff during a meeting of the Academic Council in February of this year. In particular, the justifications and proposals of the university were presented in detail in connection with the disagreement on the implementation of the project to merge universities.
Meanwhile, in a telephone conversation with an ArmInfo correspondent, Sona Hovhannisyan, the Rector of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory noted that she could not say anything additional on this issue, with the exception of the published official statement of the Rectorate. "I have no comments and no reason to discuss this topic. "It's all lies," she said. The Rector of the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory noted that no one officially told her anything about the merger of universities. "These are discussions that have not just begun. It's been discussed for 2 years now. What is unclear is why exactly now there is such excitement?," Hovhannisyan concluded.