Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BALTIMORE -- The melody was played on turquoise ukuleles, with children beating out the rhythm on miniature drums. “I feel peace ...

The tabla artist and another traditional master musician, Quraishi, presented a program of the rich and varied legacy of classical compositions and folk melodies of this ancient Central Asian nation.

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Music is banned at home. But after fleeing the Taliban into exile, the Afghan Youth Orchestra is performing in Europe about loss, hope, and the power of music.In August 2021, when the Taliban once ...

In August 2021, less than two weeks after pianist and composer Arson Fahim '26 left his native Afghanistan to study composition at New England Conservatory, the Taliban took over his homeland and ...

The amazing concerts put on by the New England Conservatory feature differing musical styles and traditions that span the globe, all thanks to the exceptional diversity of the NEC faculty and students ...

The first time Arson Fahim saw a piano is seared into his memory. He was a young boy, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, when he saw the film The Pianist. "I saw this movie and I was, like, 'Wow, how can ...

When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021, they quickly banned music, declaring it un-Islamic. Musicians faced threats, raids, and the destruction of their instruments. “Our homes were ...

KABUL, August 15 (UNHCR) - His songs evoke the harsh beauty of his native Afghanistan, a country he fled more than 12 years ago, but they were composed in a green and tidy suburb of Toronto, Canada, ...

The Taliban announced in August that it had destroyed over 20,000 musical instruments in Afghanistan in the past year. The extremist group considers instruments un-Islamic and permits only ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — Mohammed Tariq was looking after his uncle’s music shop one recent afternoon when two bearded men with turbans pulled up on a motorcycle to deliver an ominous warning. “Where ...