Скачать или смотреть "Hedjazkiar Taxim," sung by Hassan Bey

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Odeon Records, catalog number: X 131014b; matrix number: Cx 3306.


This 78-rpm shellac record is from the estate of Armenian-American painter Sylvia Jorjorian. Born in 1914 in Istanbul, Turkey, Sylvia died in 2012 in Sacramento, California, where she had settled in the mid-1940s, having grown up in New York City. The record had been purchased at H.M. Tashjian, 388 Third Avenue, NYC, date unknown. This was one of more than 50 such records from Sylvia Jorjorian’s estate, mostly Armenian-language folk music, recorded in the early part of the 20th century.