Sarky mouradian biography books

Filmmaker, Music Impresario

Mouradian’s first film was “Baghdasar Aghpar” (1965), based on Hagop Baronian’s 1886 comedy.

A favorite of the Armenian stage, the story is a satire on marriage and divorce in the Armenian community.

Biography books for 4th graders

The film, in black and white, features the music of Mouradian’s own “Hye Tones” orchestra including the title song Baghdasar Aghpar and a sequence where a female Armenian nightclub singer performs the well-known kef song “Gneeguh” backed by oud and dumbeg musicians.

The music of the Hye Tones represented a unique place in Armenian-American popular music. Coming before the pop music explosion of the 70s and 80s, but composed of then-recent immigrants, their music shows influences from the style played by East Coast bands as well as the more Continental European tastes of the newcomers, the Eastern Armenian flavor of LA’s large “Russahye” community, and Mouradian’s own songw