Armenian Folk Music History
Gomidas Vartabed created the 300-member “Kusan” Choir and gave concerts in various places in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. Five of its members (Parsegh Ganatchian, Mihran Toumajan, Vartan Sarxian, Vagharshag Servantsdiantz, and Haig Semerjian)
took classes of music theory and musicology with him and came to be known as the “Gomidas Five.”
Ganatchian, Toumajan, and Sarxian are probably better known among Armenians than Servantsdiantz. But, take a look at a music program that took place in Cormano, Italy on Oct. 23, 2009, reproduced below:
What’s in a Name?
Servantsdian(tz): Persian in derivation, identified as a descriptive term, the name is defined as contemporary, up-to-date.
CK Garabed
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C.K. Garabed (a.k.a. Charles Kasbarian) has been active in the Armenian Church and Armenian community organizations all his life. As a writer and editor, he has been a keen observer of, and outspoken commentator on, political and social matters affecting Armenian Americans. He has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Reporter and the AGBU Literary Quarterly, “ARARAT.” For the last 30 years, Garabed has been a regular contributor to the Armenian Weekly. He produces a weekly column called “Uncle Garabed's Notebook,” in which he presents an assortment of tales, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and trivia; for the past 10 years, each column has contained a deconstruction of an Armenian surname. He believes his greatest accomplishment in life, and his contribution to the Armenian nation, has been the espousing of Aghavni, and the begetting of Antranig and Lucine.
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