"Longing", by Tigran Hamasyan

"Longing", by Tigran Hamasyan

Tigran Hamasyan: "There’s one song [“Longing”] where I’m singing in Armenian. I actually took the lyrics from this really famous poet in Armenia. His name is Hovhannes Tumanyan. He lived in the end of the nineteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth, and I took two of his quatrains that he wrote, you know, four-line phrases, and I put it to this song that I wrote".


In an interview with Matthew Kassel, on www.nextbop.com

Matthew Kassel is a fourth-year at McGill University studying political science and Arabic. When he can, he writes--often about jazz. Find some of his work at http://coldjazz.blogspot.com/


Read the interview here: http://nextbop.com/blog/aninterviewwithtigranhamasyan

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