Richard Hagopian and Zakir Hussain to Perform Live in Los Angeles

RICHARD HAGOPIAN AND ZAKIR HUSSAIN TO PERFORM LIVE IN LOS ANGELES

LOS ANGELES, AUGUST 22, ARMENIANS TODAY. NEA Folk Arts Heritage Award
Winners Richard Hagopian and Zakir Hussain will perform live at
California Plaza, Los Angeles on August 24.

Richard Hagopian was born in the small town of Fowler in the San
Joaquin Valley of California. He demonstrated his musical interest and
immense talents early, at 11 he took up the oud. By 13, Hagopian
started studying the oud with the internationally renowned Armenian
artist Kanuni Garbis Bakirgian. He also learned the clarinet and the
dumbeg and the kanoun, essential elements in a traditional Near Eastern
orchestra, and he mastered the accompanying musical theory, notation
techniques, and both the classical and folk repertoires. He was given
the title "Oudi" in 1969 by the internationally famous virtuoso Oudi
Hrant, a blind master. This is the highest honor an oudist can receive.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS