Գորքիին պարը «Արարատ» ֆիլմից: «Կնիկ կ՛ուզեմ» (Ուշ լինի նուշ լինի օպերեթից) Եդուարդ Պօղոսեանի կողմէն, Նիւ Եորք ԱՄՆ 1928
Have you ever wondered about the song on the scratchy old phonograph record which the Arshile Gorky character dances to in the movie Ararat? Now you can hear the whole song!
The song "Gnig G'oozem" also known as "Yega Yega Yaris Mod" and "Arshagin Yerke" was written by Garegin Yeritsian for his 1916 operetta "Oosh Lini Noosh Lini" staged in Tiflis. This operetta was brought to America in the early 1920s and staged by the Sourabian theater group under the title of "Aboush." The songs in the operetta are taken from Armenian folklore, but mostly the words are written to reflect the plot of the play. The song "Yega Yega Yaris Mod" was written to an old melody called "Karsi Bar," obviously a dance from Kars, at the time part of Russian Armenia and today part of Turkey. Many people from Kars went to Gyumri (Alexandropol) when Kars was taken by the Turks. The song in the play has lyrics reflecting the character Arshag's desire to find a wife. The operetta was first staged in Tiflis in 1916 and in New York in 1923. In January 1928, this song was recorded with the title "Gnig G'oozem" in New York City by the Armenian-owned Pharos Record Company, with popular Armenian comic actor Edward Boghosian singing and the "Gulazian Orchestra" providing the background music with what sounds like a combination of piano, violins and mandolins. Edward Boghosian was one of the most famous actors in the early Armenian immigrant stage productions in the US, and certainly the most famous who came from Turkey, as most of the actors immigrated from Tiflis. Boghosian was born with the name Yetvart in Constantinople in 1900. His father, Nazaret Efendi, was a beloved schoolteacher in the Kumkapi neighborhood. Boghosian started on the Armenian stages of Constantinople from an early age, working with Mardiros Mnagian's theater group. In 1921, Boghosian came to America, where he had a long career known as "Terasan Boghosian" and "Maestro Yetvart" because of his acting and musical abilities. Boghosian himself was the writer of the famous song "Sood e, Sood e" first recorded by him in the early 1940s. He died in New York in 1977.
The photographs in the video all relate to the song in some way.
1. Pharos Records songbook of 1928
2. New York City, 1928
3. Gnig Goozem original record
4. Edward Bogosian, singer
5. 42nd Street, Manhattan
6. Little Armenia section of Manhattan
7. Logo of H.M. Tashjian's record store in New York where this and many other records were sold
8. Another record by Boghosian from the 1920s called "Pesan Zokanchin Kove"
9. The lyrics to the song, printed in the Pharos records songbook
10. Scene from "Ararat" with Arshile Gorky character dancing to this song
11. Edward Boghosian
12. Garegin Yeritsyan
13. Advertisement for "Aboush" starring Setrak Sourabian
14. Scene of Kars
15. Armenian women of Alexandropol (Gyumri) in traditional dress
16. Holy Apostles Church, Kars
17. Scene of Tiflis
18. Yerevan Square, Tiflis
19. An Armenian "Kinto" (fruit peddler) in Tiflis
20. Armenian musicians from the Caucasus with tar and dap.
21. Scene of Tiflis
22. Armenian women of Tiflis in traditional dress
23. Panorama of Constantinople
24. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople
25. Pera, the Christian quarter and entertainment district of Constantinople
26. Galata Tower in Pera, built by the Italians
27. Kemani Tateos (with violin) and his musical group in Constantinople
28. Mardiros Mnagian
29. Azniv Mnagian
30. Mnagian's theatre troupe
31. Edward Boghosian in the 1920s
32. Edward Bogosian in costume in advertisement for a performance in the US
33. Advertisement for Edward Boghosian in the play "Kit Garabed" by "Esheg Simon" (mentioned at the end of the song. Boghosian the person in both pictures
34. Edward Boghosian
35. Typical group of Armenian immigrants in the 1920s enjoying themselves (Detroit)'
36. Large group of Armenians congregated for the 1914 consecration of Sts. Sahag and Mesrob Armenian Church in Providence, Rhode Island, one of the oldest Armenian communities in America and which has the same building in use today. WWI started soon after this picture was taken.
6 окт 2024
