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Charlie Chaplin about the music of Gomidas & the meeting with Aram Khachadourian.
๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ญ๐ต๐ฎ๐ญ, ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฑ for ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ฟ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑe & His connection with Gomidas.
Today marks the birthday of Charlie Chaplin. He is considered as the greatest actor of 20th century and a person with unique human values. However, not many know that during the years of the Armenian Genocide, Charlie Chaplin started a foundation to help Armenian children & transferred all the collected money 2 this fund. Charlie traveled all over Europe in the 1920's, where He raised 1 million USD (worth 15 million USD value nowadays) & donated all the money to help Armenian orphans fleeing the Ottoman Empire. He personally visited these children, helped build orphanages & special rehabilitation centers for Armenian orphans in Europe & the United States. It was during this time that Charlie made the famous movie "The Kid", having co-actor a young poor boy, with sad & innocent character, somehow resembling Armenian orphans.
In 1965, world famous Armenian composer Aram Khachadourian was invited to visit Switzerland, as part of a jury team for international musical competition. At that time Charlie was 76 years old, living an isolated life in a villa outside Geneva & rarely accepting to welcome any guest. Surprisingly, Aram Khachadourian received an invitation message from Chaplin, requesting to host the composer at his villa.
After few hours of long conversation, Khachadourian asked what is the mystery behind His sad face?
With a silent smile, Chaplin took Khachadourian to his private room where hee opened a drawer revealing records of a violinist playing music of Armenian priest Gomidas, known as the genius of Armenian music & pioneer of ethnomusicology.
Chaplin said it is one of his favorites and hee listens tp it whenever in need of inner peace. Gifting one of the records to Khachadourian, He added: "In life We think too much, feel too little. & the Armenian music is simply an endless ocean of pure emotions...".
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