Ara & Onnik Dinkjian Sextet Concert

hello everyone I am Betsy Peterson the director of the American Folklife Center here at the Library of Congress and on behalf of the staff and everyone here at the library I want to welcome you to the latest concert in our 2018 homegrown concert series here in the cool tranquil Coolidge auditorium where a wonderful escape from the horrible heat out there but today we've got a very special concert featuring the respected singer onek dinky on and his son ARA who are guests artists at the Smithsonian Institution's Folklife Festival this year and they will be joined by equally talented colleagues and friends but first a word about the homegrown concert series for those of you who don't know the homegrown concert series is designed to feature the very best of traditional musicians dancers storytellers and to do this the AFC staff works with a extensive network of talented dedicated folk arts coordinators cultural specialists ethnomusicologists throughout the country to identify the very best artists representing the most important and representative traditions to bring artists here to Washington DC to share their artistry and their traditions with you the performance today is going to be webcast so for the collections of the AFC archives so that others in the future will be also be able to hear this concert and you will be able to hear it again if you like but so with that said if you have a cell phone turned on right now or any electronic there advice please turn it off that would be great we would appreciate it and now I'd like to invite on stage Carolyn Rupp TV on who in her day job is the assistant director for education and museum programs at the National Museum of the American Indian but she's also right now curating the dance program for the 2018 Smithsonian Festival Armenian program and she'll be able to tell you a little bit more about the artist that you're going to be listening to and the traditions and the performance so please welcome Carolyn Rupp kayvyun [Applause] thank you very much I'm delighted to introduce the artist today Monique ding Chun is 88 years old and he remains America's most renowned Armenian folk and liturgical singer he has preserved Armenian folk songs from the villages of Anatolia in eastern Turkey especially in the unique dialect from his ancestral city of Diyarbakir known as de chronic heir to Armenians Oh Nik ding Shan is among the last few hundred people who speak this endangered dialect he was born in Paris France in 1929 to parents from dick Ronnie Garrett and he was orphaned at an early age he found comfort and happiness in singing initially in the Armenian Church of Paris upon arriving in America in the late 1940s he began performing at secular functions and quickly became the most loved singer of Armenian of the Armenian American community and he's released recordings of both secular and sacred Armenian music his fame as a great interpreter of Armenian song has brought him to concert halls throughout Europe the United States and South America in addition to his singing monique ding john has composed many songs some of which are sung in his native dialect onek son ARA ding Jian inherited his father's love and passion for Armenian music ara is american-born and plays both Western and Eastern instruments including piano guitar dumbek and clarinet in 1980 he graduated from the Heart College of Music earning the country's first and only special degree in the instrument for which he is come most well-known the food which is the predecessor of the loot the the European loot for over 40 years he served as an organist in the Armenian Apostolic Church throughout his musical life ARA has continued to develop his highly personal compositional style which blends his eastern and western roots in 1985 to help realize these compositions and musical concepts our afore miss highly acclaimed instrumental quartet night arc night arcs recordings and concert tours were highly influential for musicians and music lovers throughout the world because they demonstrated how music can be progressive and creative while still retaining the dignity and soul of one's culture for this concert Oneg and ara are joined by an an ensemble of outstanding instrumentalists tomorrow Pienaar Bashar is playing kanoon Ismael lumen offski is playing clarinet Pablo Vergara is playing keyboard and Engan Geun niden I got that right I think is playing percussion so some of you in the audience have heard onik saying for many decades some for some of you this will be your first time either way you are in for a real treat so please join me in welcoming owning and our addiction and friends [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] loose gets key shared I know yet again [Music] got my canteen a good stay in [Music] my inner soul [Music] so [Music] you [Music] see little it's words are [Music] Bruce me loud me [Music] No [Music] he this one [Music] good [Music] thank you thank you so much [Applause] [Music] hey hey I'm a 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let me lament moon and blue oh you're the layout of the lane making super no sir oh you're a delay y'all paavo Ramon zero oh yeah la la are they using torture answer oh yeah dad la yarda let me know Ramon Navarro oh you're Malaya are they holding the truth answer [Music] Millikan a fan by Nero Oh [Music] Alan Lee Park Pool are you oh yeah little a yard in the let me to kidnap man my near up oh you're too late I'm an Liverpool our Europe Oh y'all delay y'all delay carnivals amigas yama-chan our new she diverted this damage on all our divas yardage on em sir no sir miss yeah yeah Oh [Music] yo-chan memes Sarna soreness yah yah yah yah yah so sing your jam I won't be mended your champ Oh Lord I got a gun Chicano [Music] I'm on the other yah yah yah no time turtle Junius oh myyy over yes who are you hot seat over la dunk nail over zero year together gay party's over Duncan a low zero yeah [Music] God wrote oh good spots and hump we read the garo their mothers yay we'll make one again see this fine I'm a little out of time see this father make about a young see this Sparta [Music] our new sheet of cheese care that single chick I'm over don't see you take out cheap yeah guru wrote this to make a bodyguard till this one our table [Music] [Applause] [Music] Connie and I would [Music] bargaining chip auction in chair Alan are you bargaining chip boxer in check and I'll be denying a chick who served on each ha ha ha ha [Music] Konoe gang I returned to chill in our canoe gettin sick and I have a linnemeier I know she's goodness I know [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] I can see Sheboygan [Music] [Applause] thank you very much I'd just like to say a few words on behalf of my father and the group first of all we'd like to thank Carolyn and Thea and everybody at the Library of Congress for hosting us I was just talking to my father backstage saying dad did you ever think 70 years ago when you were singing hella hella that you'd wind up on the Library of Congress stage in this really historic stage if you read about this Coolidge auditorium stage it's it's really something it's really an honor to be here I'd also like to thank all of my fellow musicians I smile Tommen pablo and ND we'd like to thank John and the whole staff of engineers and lighting and everybody at the library we'd like to thank you for being here and and supporting programs like this and lastly I'd like to thank my father who completely unintentionally preserved a dialect and and a culture in this blessed country because frankly it was it was evicted from its homeland and my father didn't sing these songs with the intention of trying to preserve them he just sang them because he loved them and it's it's who he is and it's only later that he was told do you realize how precious it is what you've done so at the age of 89 to be singing these things here I congratulate you dad thank you [Applause] [Applause] thank you we have a couple more for you and then we're done thank you [Music] [Music] 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a mushi Iman although the mother tearless ha and adhara true she kimochi mo Oh [Music] Oh Nick did John and his colleagues [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] od [Applause] all right would you ever make [Applause] my father wants me to say something my father is not a man of many words he'd rather sing and he just sang for you but I think you apparently understood that he loves life he loves being Armenian and he loves all of you thank you so much [Applause] thank you so much [Applause] thank you so much for coming I'm so glad you came today onek and ara and the whole band will be at the Millennium stage tonight from 6 to 7 so you can catch them again they will also be on again as dad will be at the smithsonian festival tomorrow at the storytelling stage with carolyn talking about their lives in their music era will also be playing with the secret trio which is another smaller group he has on July 5th so you can catch them there if you at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the mall and next week if you come back on the 12th you will he be able to hear a fabulous Italian group from Boston called new Polly which is sort of Mediterranean music with a pulse or Italian music with a Mediterranean pulse that's how they describe themselves they're really great so thank you all for coming and please come back and if you would like to get a hold of some of their music please see Clarissa who will be in the foyer a um at the table with the light she's got some CDs ok thanks again very much on 8dg on [Applause]

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Length: 67min 45sec (4065 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 30 2019