Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zohra Ahmadi rehearses with the Afghan Youth Orchestra in Braga, Portugal, on July 29. NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence ...

THE LAST time Ahmad Fanoos performed in Afghanistan was at a lavish wedding in August 2021, days before America pulled out of its 20-year-long war against the Taliban. A well-known singer and former ...

Three years ago, nearly 300 young Afghan musicians, their teachers and staff from their music school fled Afghanistan in fear for their lives after their country fell again to the Taliban. NPR ...

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 ...

EXCLUSIVE: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the Taliban, the ...

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 ...

HE BUILT A MUSIC SCHOOL WHERE MUSIC WAS BANNED. THEN HE WENT DEAF AT HIS OWN CONCERT. There is a school in the north of Portugal, in the green country near Braga, where a few hundred young Afghans get ...

"There's two kinds of music: There's music I like, and there's music I don't like." By Andrew Unterberger Few major figures in the history of alternative rock have spent as much of their career in ...

Throughout history, music has been the highest form of art, expressing human emotions beyond the boundaries of culture, space, and time. This was evident in the remarkable fusion of sixteenth-century ...

Since its founding in 2010, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music has provided unique music training to Afghan children. In 2013, the group made a triumphant visit to the U.S. This month, three ...

NEW YORK — The Taliban tried to silence them, at times violently. The musicians from the Afghan Youth Orchestra have defiantly played on, and on Wednesday they took to one of the world’s most ...