Khachaturian

[kah-chuh-toor-ee-uhn, kach-uh-, khuh-chyuh-too-ryahn]

noun

1. Aram Ilich 1903–78, Armenian composer.

Khachaturian

/ xətʃətuˈrjan, ˌkɑːtʃəˈtʊərɪən /

noun

1. Aram Ilich (ˈarəm iljˈjitʃ). 1903–78, Russian composer. His works, which often incorporate Armenian folk tunes, include a piano concerto and the ballets Gayaneh (1942) and Spartacus (1954)

Example Sentences

After winning a war, Chaereas — the battle scene between him and Dionysius, set to Khachaturian’s invigorating “Sabre Dance,” is a thriller of sound and choreographic texture — finds his way back to her.

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‘New Horizons’ Westside Ballet of Santa Monica’s annual spring concert features company members, student dancers and guest artists sharing the stage for a program set to music by Barber, Tchaikovsky, Khachaturian, Strauss II, et al.

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Speaking from Kansas City, Mo., they talked about their program of cello sonatas by Frank Bridge, Britten, Shostakovich and either Khachaturian or Beethoven, depending on the stop.

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On April 2, the Bolshoi performed Aram Khachaturian’s “Spartacus,” a 1956 ballet about “the liberation of the oppressed,” Mr. Morrison said, meant to chime with “the ideological principles of the Soviet Union.”

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In the men’s division, Vinnie Marturano of Big Pine Key tooted his way to victory by playing a portion of Aram Khachaturian’s “Sabre Dance.”

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