AK sits down and interviews Oud master John Berberian about his life, 50-year career in music, balancing work and the arts and performing throughout the country. John discusses Working with record labels making albums with Mainstream Records, Verve Forecast, RCA and MGM starting in the early 1960s. The thriving Middle Eastern music scene of Berberian's early years, and the mixing and collaboration of different cultures. Berberian's father's role as an oud player in his musical development, and the initial d