Vartan S. Shapazian performing Armenian music,
October 30, 1939

Comprises a group of field materials documenting Vartan S. Shapazian singing unaccompanied Armenian and Armeno-Turkish songs on October 30, 1939, collected by Sidney Robertson Cowell in Fowler, California.

Aror, aror
Sevga kavig
Jan jan sarer
Golkozi atchik
Groong jan
Derzor chollerenda

Vartan Shapazian portrait

"Mr. Shapazian is from Harpoot [Harput] in Turkey. He attended the American missionary college there. In the U.S. since 1907. . . Mr. S. has learned most of his songs from published song collections."

For recordings of Vartan Shapazian's wife, Siranoosh Shapazian, made on the same day, see: Siranoosh Shapazian performing Armenian music, October 30, 1939

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