Azan in Esfahan
A video of our wonderful guide, Majid, singing the Azan inside the Imam mosque in Esfahan. This vast and beautiful structure was designed specifically in order to amplify the voice of the Imam during prayer and thus Majid is amplified only by the acoustic properties of the ...
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Kiawasch Saheb-Nassagh
I had the pleasure of meeting Kiawasch at the private music school 'Zang o Rang' he will soon be opening in Tehran. Kiawasch undertook much of his music education in Austria and has a particular desire to improve the standard of music education in Iran which he sees as still not able to compete on the world ...
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Hooshyar Khayam
Hooshyar Khayam is a pianist and composer whose 2007 album Tatari was the first classical piano CD released in Iran since the 1979 revolution. He is part of a new generation of Iranian composers who problematise the link between tradition and identity in Iranian music, rejecting the idea that in order to project ...
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Some background on Iranian music
For some background on Iranian classical music see here for an article written by me exploring the radif, particularly considering how to use its techniques in the context of my own practice of contemporary ...
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The beating heart of the city
On embarking on this trip to Tehran I was fully prepared for my daily life to be very different from that in London. I was prepared for the weather (topping 45 degrees so far), the food (endless delicious meals but each with more rice than I would normally eat in a week) and the religious holidays (Ramazan continues, ...
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