NPR1 个月
Sense of Place: For this Afghan pianist, music is an act of resistance
Fahim eventually received a scholarship to study at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He remembers leaving for Boston just days before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, banning music ...
AI Alarabiya11 年
Afghanistan’s music institute to perform in Oman
The Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) is set to perform for the first time in the Sultanate of Oman, it announced on Sunday in an official statement. “We are glad to be performing ...
SBS8 年
Fred Smith's Music about Afghanistan
Fred Smith, nicknamed 'The Singing Diplomat", who has served in Afghanistan talks about a collection of his songs reflecting his feeling about the situation in Afghanistan and the misery of its people ...
Asia Society3 年
Ahmad Sarmast: “Our Biggest Challenge is Security and Safety”
Your browser does not support HTML5 video. Ahmad Sarmast discusses the Afghanistan National Institute of Music’s commitment to gender equality, democracy, and ...
scmp.com3 年
As the Taliban takes over Afghanistan, one music school fears for its future - and its students
A few years after the Taliban were ousted in 2001, and with Afghanistan still in ruins, Ahmad Sarmast left his home in Melbourne, Australia, on a mission: to revive music in the country of his birth.
KCRW1 个月
Sense of Place: For this Afghan pianist, music is an act of resistance
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 whatever this thing is save a person's life? How can it be so ...