Sirvart Vartan Poladian ( Armenian: Սիրվարդ Վարդան Փոլադյան; June 16, 1902 – December 26, 1970) was an Armenian-American ethnomusicologist and librarian.
Poladian was born in Maraş, Turkey, the daughter of Vartan Poladian and Leah Sarkissian. [1] Her father was a physician. [2] She escaped to Canada, where she gave public talks, explaining to audiences that "I have been through three massacres." [3]
Poladian moved to California, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1935, and earned a master's degree there in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, she was a doctoral student at Columbia University, and she completed a Ph.D. in musicology at Cornell University in 1946, with a dissertation titled "Handel as an Opera Composer". [4] In 1956 she also earned a degree in library science from Columbia. [5]
Poladian taught school after college, and taught piano classes for adults. [6] She was Sidney Robertson Cowell's assistant on the Works Progress Administration's California Folk Music Project. [7] She held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies [8] and the American Association of University Women in the 1940s. [9]
Poladian taught at Florida State University from 1946 to 1948, [10] and was on the music staff at the New York Public Library from 1953 to 1968. [5] She worked on classification approaches for folk music. [11] [12]
Poladian became a United States citizen in 1929, and married John Kachie in 1949. She died in 1970, at the age of 68, in Schuyler, New York. [5] Her nephew Dicron Aram Berberian was a painter and aid worker. [24]
Sirvart Vartan Poladian ( Armenian: Սիրվարդ Վարդան Փոլադյան; June 16, 1902 – December 26, 1970) was an Armenian-American ethnomusicologist and librarian.
Poladian was born in Maraş, Turkey, the daughter of Vartan Poladian and Leah Sarkissian. [1] Her father was a physician. [2] She escaped to Canada, where she gave public talks, explaining to audiences that "I have been through three massacres." [3]
Poladian moved to California, and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1935, and earned a master's degree there in 1937. From 1940 to 1942, she was a doctoral student at Columbia University, and she completed a Ph.D. in musicology at Cornell University in 1946, with a dissertation titled "Handel as an Opera Composer". [4] In 1956 she also earned a degree in library science from Columbia. [5]
Poladian taught school after college, and taught piano classes for adults. [6] She was Sidney Robertson Cowell's assistant on the Works Progress Administration's California Folk Music Project. [7] She held grants from the American Council of Learned Societies [8] and the American Association of University Women in the 1940s. [9]
Poladian taught at Florida State University from 1946 to 1948, [10] and was on the music staff at the New York Public Library from 1953 to 1968. [5] She worked on classification approaches for folk music. [11] [12]
Poladian became a United States citizen in 1929, and married John Kachie in 1949. She died in 1970, at the age of 68, in Schuyler, New York. [5] Her nephew Dicron Aram Berberian was a painter and aid worker. [24]