Phone Calls

Today has been a day of phone calls.

The first one was from Gayane Torosyan, a Professor of media in the New York University system. Prior to that, she worked at Iowa and has been a contributing member to National Public Radio's (NPR) Morning Edition through the Iowa affiliate WSUI. A recent story she did was a podcast on Arto Tuncboyaciyan that Hagop Bedrossian had posted here on this log. You can listen to that here. She also has done a piece on the Kronos Quartet and the music of Terry Reilly. You can listen to that piece here. She is currently gathering information for a story on Pomegranate Music.

Next, I gave Mt. Ararat climber Vasken Knouni a call in London to arrange a time to interview him for some media outlets. He will be in the States next week attending a wedding in the Bay Area as well as giving a lecture to the Armenian School kids in San Francisco. I want get to the reason why he climbed Mt. Ararat and the impact it has had on him since he got back. In my conversation with him, he briefly mentioned that "something happened up there" (the peak of Ararat) that has changed his outlook on his Armenian identity. I hope to have the interview out soon after we chat more in detail this coming week. You can access his website and find out more about his climb here.