UCLA Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Much of Armenian heritage has either been lost or purposely destroyed. Not only hundreds of monuments but art and music has remained invisible or unknown to both Armenians and those more widely interested in culture and history. Among those left out of the Armenian musical canon was an extraordinary ethnomusicologist and composer, Grikor Mirzaian Suni. Educated at the Gevorgian Seminary in Echmiadzin and later at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory of Music with Nikolai Rimskii-Korsakov, Suni divided his time between music — organizing choral concerts and creating orchestra works as well as operas — and political activism. How these two journeys in his life came together is the subject of the lecture by his grandson, the historian Ronald Grigor Suny.
