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[Yervant1]

How do you spell Idiotic?  Like this, azeri government!
 
 

Azerbaijan forces Belarus callisthenics team to give up using Aram Khachaturian’s music

Organizers of the upcoming European Championship in Rhythmic Gymnastics in Baku asked the Belarusian team to give up using the music of Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian during their performance, at a press conference in Minsk reported the head coach Irina Leparskaya, the " tutby MEDIA," says.

According to her, half a year the team has performed under Khachaturian’s "Sabre Dance", but now it is having a.s.a.p. trainings of other exercises under different music.

As Leparskaya notes, it is due to this that they received low places at the World Cup in Minsk when performing exercises with ribbons and sabres.

On May 31 the Belarusian team took the sixth place in the all-around events (the second place with maces and the seventh - with ribbons and sabres), and the next day they took the seventh place in the exercise with ribbons and balls, said portal.

"There is something to scold for, but there is more to be sorry for," Leparskaya said.

The article recalls that the 30th European Championship in rhythmic gymnastics is to be held in Baku from 13 to 15 June.

Source: Panorama.am

 

 

[MosJan]

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[Yervant1]

BAKU BANS KHACHATURIAN MUSIC FROM GYMNASTICS TOURNAMENT

June 2, 2014 - 15:28 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net -

With the 30th Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championships to launch
June 13, hosting Baku was quick to dictate terms to participants:
at the championship organizers' request, Belarusian team cancelled
their routines to Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's music.

As the head coach Irina Leparskaya told a June 1 news conference in
Minsk, after performing to Khachaturian's Saber Dance for half a year,
the team is under time pressure to learn another routine to different
music, risking their success at the Championships. "There's equal
share of censure and criticism that Baku deserves here," she said.

The interesting part, however, is comments - none in over 90 justified
"the organizers' demand." A few of those are cited below:

"We could follow Baku's suit in banning Beethoven or Bach's music,
Goethe or Heine's poetry - we warred with Fascists, after all. Seems
like the organizers have los their minds and Belarusians were overruled
by lunatic clowns."

"The recent case proves even sport is about politics. Aliyev is not
alone: Mussolini and Hitler would be sympathetic of him."

"Khachaturian wrote his music for the whole world and every person in
it, including Azeris. Baku, who doesn't stop at vilifying an artist,
celebrated worldwide, has no appreciation for music or culture. You'll
soon be forgotten, yet Khachaturian's music will always be part of
a history."

"The Championship must be disqualified for such a "request"."

"I suggest Azeris refuse the use of MiG-25 and MiG-29 aircrafts -
think of who the General Designer was."

One can't help but agree: petrol-blinded Azeris found yet another
chance of making themselves a laughing stock in the eyes of the world.

Half a floor at a major Broadway music store in New York is allotted
to Khachaturian's music. Have Azeri foreign ministry officials ever
been at the store?

Sabre Dance from Gayane ballet brought the composer worldwide
recognition, with Khachaturian christened as Mister Sabre Dance in
the U.S. and England.