Artie barsamian biography books

Back to the Sound Archive. Born: Aug. As part of our ongoing series highlighting Armenian-American musicians from the postwar era, this profile features the recording career of Boston's own "King of Armenian Swing," Artie Barsamian.

Artie Barsamian.

We are also celebrating the release of a book by clarinetist, musicologist, and educator Hachig Kazarian, Western Armenian Music: From Asia Minor to the United States click here- available in the museum's bookstore. Kazarian has generously allowed us to reproduce an excerpt from his new publication, providing an abridged version of the chapter dedicated to the Barsamian Orchestra.

We have selected four songs to compliment the words of Mr. Kazarian, representing the early years of the Barsamian Orchestra and their role in popularizing and modernizing Armenian folk songs. Artie Barsamian was the second-oldest of six children in the Barsamian family. Antaram's father from Bitlis came to the United States to earn money in order to bring his family to America.

At the turn of the mid-twentieth century Ponta Point available!

But before they could get to the United States, the Genocide took place. Antaram was a survivor of the Genocide. She witnessed the death of her entire family while she was hiding under a bed where her mother had left her. Antaram was taken to an Armenian orphanage where she lived for five years. Somehow, and we shall never know how, her father learned that she was alive.

He was able to find a woman that would accompany her to the United States.