Armenian composer and the "world's leading intellectual"

[Vera]

This is very interesting. Noam Chomsky is the most-cited living author and is among top 10 most-cited authors in all history (along with Shakespeare, Plato and Sigmund Freud)...

I think it wouldn't hurt to send Edward Manukyan an email and see if he could ask Chomsky to say something about the Armenian genocide. The more such well-known political dissidents speak about it the better for the cause, especially since I know Chomsky has written about it before, but not nearly as much as we would like.

 

Here's the press release.

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For Immediate Release: December 8, 2010

Media Contact: Lyndi Williams, organizer of Musical Tribute to Scientists project. Phone: (806) 290-1772

 

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - January 22, 2010. The famous linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, widely considered to be the world's leading intellectual, will be honored during a special concert dedicated to him. It will feature music dedicated to Chomsky and songs written on Chomsky's words by the Los Angeles-based composer Edward Manukyan. Prominent linguists David Pesetsky of MIT and Gennaro Chierchia, the head of the linguistics department at Harvard, will take the stage with speeches about Chomsky's contribution to linguistics and world ideas. The program will also include music dedicated to Nobel-laureates James D. Watson, Steven Weinberg and others.

 

The concert will be held at MIT's Kresge Auditorium, on January 22, 2010, at 07:00 PM. Tickets may be purchased from: http://gsc.mit.edu/chomsky

The event is sponsored by MIT Graduate Student Council, Cambridge Arts Council and MIT Lecture Series.

 

Edward Manukyan is an Armenian-born composer from Southern California. Hailed by the world-renowned conductor Loris Tjeknavorian as "the most brilliant Armenian composer of his generation," Manukyan has dedicated a considerable number of his works to eminent scientists. Recently, he has been promoting wider appreciation for sciences through his original Musical Tribute to Scientists project, which includes dedications to some of the greatest minds of our time. Manukyan is the author of a number of orchestral and chamber works, many of which have been performed on the international scene.

 

Musicians performing at the Cambridge concert include Sarita Uranovsky (violin), Molly Walker (clarinet), Lyndi Williams (soprano), and Hisako Hiratsuka (piano).

 

For additional information about Edward Manukyan and the Noam Chomsky Tribute Concert, please visit www.EdwardManukyan.com.

Edited December 16, 2009 by Vera

[Zartonk]

Excellent post Vera, thanks for sharing. It makes me ecstatic to finally see composers dedicate their art to science versus the supernatural and the "heroes".