Photo: Iranian musician Kayhan Kalhor will play The Town Hall in New York City, Nov. 30. Photo courtesy of Nima ...

Persian classical music is an art that has survived for centuries both in oral and written forms. Based on improvisation and composition, it is interwoven with Persian poetry, and features a ...

Ali Karimi Tarki, a distinguished practitioner of Iranian classical vocal music, was officially appointed as Arirang Master ...

Iran's greatest master of Persian classical music Mohammad Reza Shajarian, middle, performs with Mojgan Shajarian, 2nd left, and Majid Derakhshani composer, 2nd right, during a concert with Shahnaz ...

Young Iranian musician Parvaz Homay draws on classical Persian music and poetry, but he offers his own interpretations and also writes original lyrics that have disturbed government officials to the ...

Mohammed Reza Shajarian, widely considered the greatest singer of Iranian classical music today, is the center of this immodestly named group; his intense vocals can be both gorgeous and sorrowful, ...

For centuries, the classical music “canon” has been dominated by European male figures. Times are changing, though, and many diverse voices are finally finding a foothold in the genre — and one need ...

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I almost didn’t hear about this concert in time to share, but Iranian vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian, one of the greatest living practitioners of Persian classical music, is making a rare local ...

Persian classical music is one of the wonders of the Middle East. Centuries old, a symbiotic blending of poetry, melody and rhythm, it offers a compelling listening experience, even to Western ears ...

Persian music is a tapestry of richly hued, intertwining melodic and harmonic threads. Like the complex, but infinitely beautiful designs of Persian miniature paintings, it is a fascinating ...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Mohammad Reza Shajarian, who revived Iranian classical music and became a symbol for the opposition after a wave of unrest in 2009, has died in a Tehran hospital at the age of 80, ...