Aram Kouyoumdjian
Armenians in Los Angeles commemorated the centennial of the Genocide
last month with a march so mammoth that it resembled a human flood
flowing through three of the city’s major thoroughfares.
The march was a watershed that eclipsed all other commemorative
activities, including a number of cultural ones worth remembering.
In the realm of film, there was “1915.” In the realm of music, the
Lark Musical Society joined with UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music to
present the world premiere of Ian Krouse’s “Armenian Requiem.” And in
the realm of art, the “Life 100” exhibit was a showcase of practically
every major Armenian artist, while “iWitness,” an open-air installation
of larger-than-life photos of Genocide survivors on three-dimensional
metal frames, was both a soaring and searing experience.
