Yesterday the staff of “Yerevan Chamber Music Orchestra” organized a mass meeting with the purpose of stopping the construction works of the café not far from the building, The music sounds and the noise of the cafe will disturb the work of the orchestra due to the fact that it is very close to it. However, they have once experienced this situation: there is a café on the other side of the building, which operates for three years and disturbs the musicians.
“There is no more patience. I announced for several times and assure that if they continue the construction, the Chamber Music building will not exist as a music hall any more. The same thing happened to the small philharmonic hall named after Arno Babajanyan, and now it is impossible to organize a concert there. You can hear noise and other sounds from outside when you are in the hall. It is not possible to organize anything there”.
The musicians hope that President Kocharyan will help them and make them stop the construction works as he had promised. But Mr. Gharabekyan said that there was no news. They haven’t applied to the mayor of Yerevan at all. “I think there is no need to apply to a person who signed the document for this construction himself”,-said Aram Gharabekyan. “Foreigners were surprised to see how free, open and independent city Yerevan is. We lost this independence too”,-said Sos Sargsyan.
Yesterday the construction was stopped, probably for a short period. As for the other café, it still continues working but without music.