Yerevan Charents Museum of Literature and Arts, Hayganush Mark archive
Koharig Ghazarosian, left, and Hayganush Mark, Istanbul, July 6, 1957. UCLA Newsroom |
April 19, 2021
To commemorate the annual recognition of the Armenian genocide and to celebrate an amazing story of two Armenian women’s friendship, UCLA will host a special discussion and also the premiere performance of one of the friend’s music (based on the other’s poetry) on April 20.
Hayganush Mark was the leading Armenian feminist writer of her time, and Koharig Ghazarosian was a prominent composer, concert pianist and piano teacher active in Paris and Istanbul. Their intertwined lives can be traced in photographs, letters and pages of sheet music.