The Los Angeles Times has an interesting article titled “Duduk: The Instrument That Makes Hollywood Cry.” Duduk, the unique Armenian musical instrument with thousands of years of history is becoming more and more popular day by day and has been featured in movies such as "The Crow," "Dead Man Walking," "Gladiator," "Hidalgo," "The Hulk," "The Passion of the Christ," "Munich" and "Syriana."

Why is Duduk conquering the world? John Ehrlich might have the answer: "I don't think there's anything that sounds as close to the human voice, and there's nothing as compelling to the human ear as the human voice."

Personally, I don’t think the emergence of Duduk in the movies is simply “stylish.” In April of 2005, when my college’s honor society, led by me, organized Genocide and Holocaust Commemoration, we invited Walter Plywaski, a Holocaust survivor, to speak.

Duduk was the music between the brakes of the commemoration ceremony and Plywaski was listening to it for the first time in his life. After the event, the Holocaust survivor asked me to send him a copy of the Duduk CD so that he would accompany his feature talks on how he survived the Genocide of the Jews.

The LA Times article is available at
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/…rack=crosspromo.

Some of the movies that Duduk is featured in: