YEREVAN, June 25 (Noyan Tapan). The American Chronos classical quarter will perform at the "Aram Khachaturian" concert hall of Yerevan June 29. The Yerevan concert of the famous quartet that arrived in Armenia within the framework of the "Prospects of the 21st Century" music festival has been organized by the Music Information Center of Armenia. Manager General of the festival Sona Hovhannissian told NT they started negotiating with Chronos in 2001 but the agreement could be reached only this spring. The quartet will be accompanied by light and sound editors from the United States who will attand to all the technical problems. All the eight pieces to be performed at the concert have been written specially for Chronos. One of them was ordered by NASA. Chronos has turned the solar sounds recorded by NASA in the space into music. By the way, S. Hovhannissian pointed out the musicians of the quartet have performed the pieces of three Armenian composers: Ashot Zohrabian, Avet Terterian and Tigran Tahmazian, an Armenian composer from the United States also ordered specially for Chronos. "We tried to negotiate the quartet into performing one of the pieces of Armenian composers in Yerevan, but they refused," Sona Hovhannissian said. According to the festival manager, the tickets for the quartet's concerts usually ranges between $200 and $1,000. Anyway, taking into consideration the the current socio-economic situation in Armenia, the Yerevan concert will be an invitation-only one. Only a limited quantity of tickets will be available for sale, the tickets' price ranging 3,000 to 15,000 drams.

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