Tigran Mansurian
In the 1960s and 1970s, the Grammy nominated composer Tigran Mansurian worked with the legendary filmmakers Parajanov & Vartanov, composing scores for their feature and documentary films, including The Color of Pomegranates and The Color of Armenian Land (released by Criterion). Mansurian, one of the forerunners of contemporary music in the former USSR, and the first to introduce modern composition techniques in Armenia, has also composed the scores for 3 other films by Vartanov: Autumn Pastoral, And So Every Day, and Awaiting.
In 2017 and 2018, the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute asked The Cinemfamily in Hollywood and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York not to screen The Colour of Pomegranates without Mansurian’s score, noting that the soundtrack is an indelible part of Parajanov’s masterpiece and must not be replaced. Consequently, The Met in New York decided to cancel their presentation and The Cinefamily in Los Angeles screened the restored version of the film on which we worked with Martin Scorsese’s foundation.
Parajanov-Vartanov Institute 
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