{"id":139447,"date":"2011-11-04T16:26:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=139447"},"modified":"2011-11-04T16:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T12:41:47","slug":"video-armenian-choir-performs-armenian-litany-on-turkish-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/11\/04\/video-armenian-choir-performs-armenian-litany-on-turkish-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Armenian Choir Performs Armenian Litany on Turkish TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul&#8217;s 40-person polyphonic <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lusavoric.org\/index.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Surp Lusavorich<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> (&#8220;St. Illuminator&#8221;) Armenian Choir led by conductor Hagop Mamigonyan participated in a program dedicated to the memory of the Van, Turkey earthquake victims which aired on a Turkish TV channel on Thursday by performing the well-known Armenian litany &#8220;Der Voghormya&#8221; (&#8220;Lord have mercy&#8221;). Note, Surp Lusavori\u00e7 has been performing in Istanbul for 80 years.<\/p>\n<p>Armenian musicians have been actively participating in the charitable events and campaigns to raise funds for victims of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Turkey&#8217;s Van region on Oct. 23. Among\u00a0 this group is Istanbul-based rock musician of Armenian descent Hayko Cepkin, who opened the &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2011\/10\/27\/rock-for-van-concert-in-istanbul-to-be-opened-by-armenian-artist.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Rock for Van<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; charity concert on Oct. 30.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tun6aB7dtYM?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul&#8217;s 40-person polyphonic Surp Lusavorich (&#8220;St. Illuminator&#8221;) Armenian Choir led by conductor Hagop Mamigonyan participated in a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}