2009 Friday January 2 Suni Concert Ann Arbor District Library, Ann Arbor, Michigan (53:02 minutes) Invited by the Ann Arbor District Library, (Downtown lower level), 343 S. Fifth Ave, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Presented by a chamber ensemble of musicians including Grikor Suni’s great granddaughters violinists Sevan Suni (26), + Anoush Suni (21, who will also play oud), their mother pianist Armena Marderosian, (wife of Professor Ronald Grigor Suny), tenor Rubik Mailian, and soprano Anahit Toumajan. Grikor Suni collected Armenian folk music, thru all Armenian areas of the Caucasus + Middle East, from which he created beautiful concert works.
- Short talk by Armena Marderosian about Grikor Mirzaian Suni (4:10) – Listen Now
- Oy Nazanum (Oh My Nazan) (00:53) – Listen Now
- Hoontzk (Harvest) (00:35) – Listen Now
- Dil Lyoo Lyoo (Uncle Came to Our Backyard) (00:33) – Listen Now
- Tsoren Em Tsaner (I Have Sown Wheat) (00:43) – Listen Now
- Oy Yaro (Sweetheart) (00:47) – Listen Now
- Aghgeg Es (You’re Lovely) (00:45) – Listen Now
- Alakyaz (Name of a beloved high mountain in Armenia) (1:58) – Listen Now
- Zinch oo Zinch (What Oh What shall I give to the swimmers_) (2:26) – Listen Now
- Kyankn Anoosh (Sweet the Life) (2:10) – Listen Now
- Inchoo Bingyolu Mtar_ (Why Did You Enter Bingyol_) (1:37) – Listen Now
- Shogher Jan (Shogher Dear) (1:43) – Listen Now
- Saren Kooga Dziavor (From the Mountains Comes a Horseman) (1:37) – Listen Now
- Habrban (Sweethearts Calling to each other) (2:04) – Listen Now
- Yete Mi Or (If One Day you visit my grave) (2:59) – Listen Now
- Kali Yerk [Gali Yerk] (Threshing Song) (3:42) – Listen Now
- Horom Horom, Aghji Horom (A Girl Named Horom) (2:39) – Listen Now
- Kot oo Kes [God oo Ges] (Bucket and a Half) (2:26) – Listen Now
- Ha Klor [Ha glor] (Round Dance) (2:16) – Listen Now
- Sareru Man Em Yekel (In the Mountain I Have Wandered) (3:24) – Listen Now
- Sareri Hovin Mernm (For the Mountain Breeze I’d Die) (2:49) – Listen Now
- Ov Dook Sarer (Oh Ye Mountains) (2:01) – Listen Now
- Nenni Bala (Sleep My Child) (2:13) – Listen Now
- Arevelkoom (Orientale) (3:50) – Listen Now
- Kyamancha (Spiked Fiddle) (1:27) – Listen Now
- Tooy-Tooy [Dooy-Dooy] (2:24) – Listen Now
- Gatsek Amper (Go Away Clouds and take a message to my love) (3:15) – Listen Now
- Erz’room March (4:16) – Listen Now