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Abril Bookstore to host an evening with leading Armenian folk singer Hasmik Harutyunyan
September 21, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Free!
One of Armenia’s leading folk singers, HASMIK HARUTYUNYAN will give a special performance and presentation in Armenian on occasion of her newly released book/cd combos, ORORNER (Lullabies) and LORIK on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2019 at 7:30pm at 415 E. Broadway, Glendale, CA.
Admission is free. Priority reserved seating also available for $15 a seat by visiting www.itsmyseat.com/abrilbooks or by calling (818) 243-4112.
HASMIK HARUTYUNYAN is world-renowned for her work with Yerevan’s Shoghaken Ensemble and for her mellifluous renditions of Armenian lullabies, one of the most ancient and evocative genres in Armenian music. Her quietly passionate interpretations of lullabies from historical villages across the Armenian plateau offer a mesmerizing glimpse at a lost world. She draws strength and inspiration from her ancestors in the province of Mush in Historic Armenia, especially her grandmother, Mafo, who sang to her as a child. In addition to songs sung by her family, Hasmik learned many of the folk songs in her repertoire from old women who had emigrated from the Armenian Highlands to eastern Armenia before or during the Armenian massacres and genocide of 1915, as well as from their descendants and old song collections.
This event celebrates the release of Ororner (Lullabies), Harutyunyan’s new book and CD anthology of 57 lullabies, and Lorik, with children’s songs composed by Komitas Vardapet, and folk songs from Historic Armenia. The event is dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Komitas Vardapet, who saved Armenian songs and melodies and passed them onto us.
