On Friday, Feb. 23 at 7:30 p.m. the University of Maine School of Performing Arts (SPA) presented a screening of the documentary “Six Centuries, Six Years.” The film portrays the journey of Iranian ...

TEHRAN- An Iranian musical ensemble graced an international cultural festival in Hanoi, Vietnam, a prestigious event ...

Researchers disagree on the precise and reliable origin of the first musical sound or the earliest societies that used music, but it is conceivable given that wind and percussion instruments were ...

Happy Nowruz (Persian New Year)! The holiday, which has been celebrated by people of Persian descent for more than 3,000 years, falls on March 20 this year, which makes Early Music Now's March 19 ...

My country, I will build you again, / if need be, with bricks made from my life.”  That line from Iranian poet Simin ...

I first encountered the tonbak – Iran’s indigenous drum – as a student, when I heard it on an old LP I found in a dusty corner of the library at London’s Royal College of Music. Instantly, I was ...

An Indian woman's efforts to create a digitised version of Shahnameh, the Epic of Kings of ancient Persia, into an engrossing and exciting long story in seven CDs has thrilled not just the Parsis of ...

He will perform at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and the House of Culture in Borovsk. In this performance, Iranian musicians including Hamid Ghanbari on percussion, Ashkan Moradi and ...