The Monk Warrior

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The Monk Warrior
The Monk Warrior

The Monk Warrior by Daniel Arrhakis / Pethros Thoryan (2020)

With the music : Komitas Vardapet (*) - Armenian Divine Liturgy

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He had always lived in the Monastery, he did not know the love for a woman until that moment when he met her ... on a mission that was destined for him by the heavens.
Now everything felt like a whirlwind of feelings in his warrior monk soul ... in his divided heart. If only he could have both Worlds ... in the past it was Destiny that found him and now it was also his Destiny that he had to find ...


The Two Paths On Our Life

In each path of our life there are always at least two paths ... the path that Destiny has traced and the one we seek ... we cannot always distinguish which one is which ... will always be a design of God !

Daniel Arrhakis


Os Dois Caminhos Na Nossa Vida

Em cada percurso da nossa vida existem sempre pelo menos dois caminhos ... o caminho que o Destino nos traçou e aquele que procuramos ... nem sempre conseguimos distinguir qual é qual ... será sempre um desígnio de Deus !

Daniel Arrhakis


(*) Soghomon Gevorki Soghomonyan - Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935) born in in Kütahya, Ottoman Empire, was an Armenian priest, composer, choir leader, singer, music ethnologist, music teacher and musicologist, known as the founder of modern Armenian classical music.

In 1890 Soghomon was ordained a monk.
In 1893 he finished studying at the seminary, then he was ordained a “Vardapet” (celibate priest) and acquired his new name “Komitas” - the name of the outstanding poet of VII century, the author of sharakans. At the seminary Komitas was assigned to teach music.
Along with teaching, Komitas organized a choir, an orchestra of folk instruments, and treated folk songs; he made the first researches in the field of Armenian Church music.

He established and conducted the monastery choir till 1896 when he went to Berlin, to the Kaiser Friedrich Wilhelm University. Here he studied music at the private conservatory of Prof. Richard Schmidt. In 1899 he acquired the title doctor of musicology and returned to Echmiadzin. He traveled extensively around the country, listening and recording details about Armenian folk songs and dances performed in various villages. This way he collected and published some 3000 songs, many of them adapted to choir singing.

His major work is Badarak (Divine Liturgy), still used today as one of the two most popular musical settings of the Armenian Church liturgy.

He was the first non-European to be admitted into the International Music Society of which he was a co-founder.

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