Young Iranian musician Parvaz Homay draws on classical Persian music and poetry, but he offers his own interpretations and also writes original lyrics that have disturbed government officials to the ...

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Mohammad Reza Shajarian, once dubbed "the Pavarotti of Persian classical music" by the Toronto Globe & Mail, had never been known as a particularly political person. That was before the widely ...

Translated by Shahab Jafari, the book has been published by Nay o Ney Music Book Publisher in 466 pages, ILNA reported. “The History of Musical Instruments” is an unabridged republication of the 1940 ...

“Now listen to the reed as it is grieving,” sang Hossein Omoumi, sitting cross-legged on a carpet at Meany Hall, dressed in white, loose-fitting pants and shirt. “Since they cut me from the bed of ...

Arriving in New York City at the age of 19 to study music, Hafez Nazeri knew he wanted to do big things. Now, little more than a decade later, the young Iranian classical composer is riding high with ...

Masters of Persian Music, an all-star ensemble of four of Iran’s most celebrated musicians, has come and gone. Judging from Saturday’s enthusiastic reception at the Kennedy Center, however, the ...

As a female Iranian musician raised in the Bahá’í faith, Sahba Motallebi has spent her adult life pushing against barriers and restrictions. Even as a teenager, doors quickly closed when she joined ...

The winter and spring season of concerts at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, begins Feb. 10 with a rare joint performance by three of the ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. A Grammy-winning virtuoso of the kamancheh (a bowed, cello-like instrument ...