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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
Last week, the SPbPU Chamber Choir under the direction of Alexandra Makarova visited Yerevan. The creative delegation was hosted by the Russian-Armenian University, a strategic partner of SPbPU. The polytechnicians prepared a program of world music especially for their performance in Armenia, having learned Armenian songs. At a large rehearsal before the concert for students and teachers of the RAU, the polytechnicians took an Armenian language lesson to achieve perfect pronunciation.
It was impossible to imagine what a profound impression this would make on the audience. The university administration, teachers and students were touched by the way the Polytechnic students performed the prayer that is sung during the liturgy of the Armenian Apostolic Church. And they were no less surprised by the Georgian folk song “Lalebi” that sounded at the end of the concert. RAU Rector Edward Sandoyan did not expect that the performance of the Polytechnic choir would become such a grand unifying event.
“In just an hour, I am expecting guests from Georgia, led by the rector of the Caucasus University, Kakha Shengelia,” said Edward Sandoyan. “While he is on the way, I just sent him your performance of ‘Lalebi’ – he is crying because I wrote that it is the choir of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University performing a Georgian song at the Russian-Armenian University. We have all accumulated so many problems. You can spend years, months, hours telling a Georgian, an Armenian, an Uzbek how important it is for us to be together, but one song like this is enough for them to understand everything. What you are doing is very important, so important that you cannot even imagine it. Thank you, the university, and the rector, Andrei Ivanovich Rudskoy!”
RAU organized an excursion for the polytechnics to Lake Sevan, the city of Dilijan and one of the world’s largest repositories of ancient manuscripts, Matenadaran. Armenia is one of the most ancient countries with numerous temples, monasteries and churches. The choir members had a unique opportunity to sing in the Sevanavank Monastery, founded in 874, and the 12th-century Haghartsin monastery complex. And in these medieval shrines, the Armenian prayer was performed by students from Russia. The final event of the creative delegation’s visit to Yerevan was a concert at the Moscow House.
“The audience highly appreciated the performance of the SPbPU Chamber Choir, surprised that engineers, physicists, and programmers perform such music professionally. All this is thanks to the efforts of the choir director Alexandra Makarova and choirmaster Ivan Egorov, and, of course, the great support of the SPbPU rector’s office,” noted the head of the SPbPU Directorate of Cultural Programs and Youth Creativity Boris Kondin. “The Polytechnic University not only educates the future engineering elite of the country, but is also engaged in the formation of Russia’s cultural sovereignty. We now know this for sure!”
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