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The Clay Room Session 8 : June 15, 2022
The second of the two-part series covers the Persian influence on Theory and Practice of music.
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Andranik Aroustamian, playing Oriental Serenade in Chahargah on the Persian Kamancheh. Andranik Aroustamian was an Iranian-Armenian born in the USSR, but of Iranian heritage. At the time of Stalin, due to his Iranian heritage, he was able to migrate to Iran with his mother and initially lived in the city of Rasht in Iran. He spent the 1940s in Iran and while there, h. played on the Iranian National Radio. Abul Hassan Saba, a renowned Persian musicologist, composer and musician, called Aroustamian "a virtuoso master of the kamancheh in Iran." He sold out the Carnegie Hall on a Kamancheh Solo program. He was called the Paganini of Kamancheh by the Village Voice in the early 1980s.
He emigrated to the U.S. in 1971 and quickly established a distinguished career. Aroustamian is credited with establishing the kamancheh in the United States as a classical instrument for the concert stage. In New York, his performances at such concert halls as the Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall of the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, drew praise from John Rockwell, The New York Times critic, who noted that Aroustamian "is a kamancheh virtuoso, a distinguished master of his unusual instrument." Similarly impressed, Tom Johnson of 'Me Village Voice, wrote that "Aroustamian tossed off a cadenza that could have been written by Paganini, with speed that few Westerners could match." He has also appeared in Los Angeles, Washington D. C., Boston, Ann Arbor, Vermont, and Philadelphia. Aroustamian's music embraces many different civilizations. In New York City alone, he was the featured artist at St. Vartan's Armenian Cathedral. In addition, he played at New York City's Plaza Hotel to celebrate Islamic Culture and Civilization. Farokh Bay, the director of the Turkish Radio and Television called Aroustamian, "the world's king of kamancheh."
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