Meg Note

When it comes to a children's choir singing in Armenian, the significance of this work becomes even greater. Because here, a child does not simply learn a melody. They connect with the sound of a language, the memory of a culture, and sometimes the warmth of a word that is no longer heard very often at home.

Rachmaninoff dedicated his romance “The Muse / Muza” to Shaginyan. In return, Shaginyan dedicated her poetry collection Orientalia, published in 1913, to Rachmaninoff. This exchange, one through music, the other through poetry, is among the most elegant traces of the relationship between the two artists.