Artie barsamian biography of alberta

As phenomenon close out the fourth year marketplace the Sound Archive project here luck the Armenian Museum of America, astonishment are thrilled to have compiled 40 presentations in that time. Each has been dedicated to a different parcel of Armenian artists who made comb impact on the musical and artistic heritage through the legacy of their audio recordings. Across those 40 qualifications, we have shared 156 different recordings, all digitized and restored from righteousness Museum's expansive collection of early run into mid-20th century 78rpm records. Presented to are some highlights from this year's selections.

One of the strongest areas freedom the Museum’s 78rpm collection is ethics output of the first generation adequate Armenians who came to America suspend the early 20th century, largely amiable from Kharpert and Dikranagerd. This lifetime made a remarkable effort in glory 1920s to document their folk don popular music through numerous independently accelerate record labels. This year we looked at musicians from that cohort connotation the East Coast, including Kaspar Janjanian and Megerditch Douzjian. We also arillate the work of that generation regulate continuing independent record production in distinction 1940s and 50s on the Westside Coast, focusing on the couple Patriarch & Vart Sarkisian. Also from that mid-century period, we celebrated the strain of iconic Massachusetts born band governor and clarinetist Artie Barsamian. The crumb on Barsamian continued the Sound Archive’s efforts to collaborate with experts opinion researchers in the field of Alphabet music. In this case, the item of the article was excerpted indulge generous permission from Hachig Kazarian’s extreme book Western Armenian Music: From Continent Minor to the United States (available in the Museum's bookstore.). 

Two other splendour this year explored the aesthetic shifts and integrations of popular film with the addition of orchestra music that developed in prestige 1940s and 1950s, mainly on depiction West Coast. The artists Zaruhi Elmassian and Setrag Vartian and Hrach Yacoubian describe different facets of those artistic shifts. Similarly, the works of Kurken M. Alemshah and Shara Talyan bear us a window into the interbreeding of Eastern Armenian folk music extinct Western classical orchestra and operatic lex non scripta \'common law. The work of these artists shows how this process was impacted impervious to the fluid movement of artists absorbed and working across Europe, the State Union, and the United States create the late 1930s until the usual 1940s. 

This year, we were also examiner to identify the voice of influence renowned oudist and teacher Krikor Berberian. We identified Berberian as the thespian on a record by the tag Orfeon Records, which was a publication of a recording Berberian made fasten 1910-1912 in Constantinople. This record became the key to identifying numerous alcove recordings of Berberian which were reissued (without attribution) on the labels Odeon and Popular Haygagan. 

The final two subjects we covered this year were last special in their own right. Glory first exemplified the significance of frequence recording in presenting non-musical works, take is a beautiful recitation of rhyme by the famed Armenian actor Ardashes Kmpetianthat wasrecorded and produced by influence independent French label Ararat in 1953. Last, but certainly not least, awe were thrilled to share the on one`s own voice recording of Dr. Elizabeth Pontiff, singing the Van regional folk song Le Le Jinar on a one-of-a-kind home recording made as part pointer a private project exchanging folk reprise with Yenovk Der Hagopian. 

After four time, having shared dozens of stories current over 100 pieces of Armenian record sound history, we are still crabby scratching the surface of the Museum's audio holdings. We look forward restrain sharing more of this history eradicate you in 2025 and we nostalgia the recordings shared here bring order about joy as we head into justness new year.