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Episode 4: Music as testimony, music for healing with Mary Kouyoumdjian

Episode 4: Music as testimony, music for healing with Mary Kouyoumdjian

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 Today’s guest is composer Mary Kouyoumdjian who collaborated with the Kronos Quartet to release her first recording. An Armenian-American composer & Pulitzer prize finalist who deftly weaves field recordings to masterful compositions, Witness explores her own family history of surviving the Armenian genocide by moving to Lebanon, also impacted by the ravages of war. The exquisite sounds here are woven in with deeply personal stories from family testimony. Listen in to gain insight from Kouyoumdjian and hear moments from the album. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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