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  Scythian Suite

  Trusting Wikipedia (sacrilege!), I reproduce here their article about the Scythian Suite. The Scythian Suite, Op. 20 is an orchestral suite by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1915. Prokofiev originally wrote the music for the ballet Ala i Lolli, whose story takes place among the Scythians. Commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev, the ballet was written to a scenario by Russian poet Sergey Gorodetsky. But when Diaghilev (...)
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  Haptadâmã: the seven creations of ancient Persia

  Eric Banks This delicate universe will be a cappella cycle for 16-parts, performed in both Greek and English — it draws on five poems by the Greek-Egyptian writer Constantine Cavafy (whose poetry served as a spiritual guide to Alexandria for Lawrence Durrell). Banks is also trying to round up funding for an Olivier Wevers ballet with (...)
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  دخترم، دختر افغانم من

  در بارۀ مژده جمالزاده، بابک سیاووش، عکّاس و خبرنگار افغانی، چنین می نویسد: مژده جمالزاده بانوی جوان موسیقی افغانستان که عمر هنریش خیلی خرد است و در همین تازگی رو به موسیقی آورده است. مژده جمالزاده می گوید که از پیامها و تشویقهای علاقه‌مندان خود احساس خوشی می کند. همین احساس باعث می شود که او بیشتر بخواند. مژده می گوید که در عرصۀ موسیقی او را ح
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  Orange Drink

  There were also book shelves, where Baba (father) often read, and played a game of chess with uncle Sshari. I often dozed in the early hours of the afternoon in the relaxing atmosphere with Baba reading the famous book of Shahnameh (“The Epic of Kings”) to me with his soft musical voice. Many of the stories written by Ferdowsi were about Zoroastrian religion and history. It was much later in life, when visiting (...)
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  A feast of Shirin Simmons in her Persian heritage

  Shirin Simmons Shirin Simmons is the first Persian born cookery writer to present in the English language recipes from salads to complex exotic banquet dishes, especially the sweet and savoury delicacies from her mother’s collection introduced to the world as early as 1988. Shirin grew up enjoying and experiencing cooking from her early childhood days in Yazd to her teenage days in Tehran. A Feast of My Persian (...)
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  نمایشگاه ”خلیلی“ !

  ”خلیلی“ کیست؟ در زندگینامۀ ایشان چنین آمده است: ”ناصر د. [*] خلیلی“ در سال ۱۹۴۵ در اسفهان چشم بجهان گشوده و از سال ۱۹۷۰ دست به گردآوری اشیاء نایاب زده و هم اکنون ایشان دارای پنج کلکسیون هستند که هریک از آنها در میان بهترین کلکسیونهای جهان می باشد و رویهم به ۲۰۰۰۰ شیئی گرانبها می رسد. ”پروفسور خلیلی“ در لندن زندگی می کنند. یکی ازکلکسیونهای گرانبهای ایشان کلکسیونی است که آنرا ”هنر اسلامی“ نام نهاده اند که هم اکنون در پا�
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  تارا جاف

  دڵ دیوانه‌ام تارا جاف در سال ۱۹٥٨ در حلبچه به جهان آمد و پس از اخراج شدن از آکادمی موسیقی بغداد بدست حزب بعث عراق، در سال ۱۹۷٦ به انگلیس کوچ کرد تا در آنجا آموزش موسیقی را دنبال کند. در همین کشور نخستین کنسرتهای خود را که بیشتر تکنوازی است برگزار کرد.
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  Ossetian dance

  Ossetian Dancers (Courtesy M. Peter) Since before recorded history, North Ossetia-Alania has been the crossroads of main Caucasus routes and a bridge between Transcaucasia and Europe. Due to its strategic geographical position, North Ossetia-Alania has always been the subject of dispute for all the great empires. The Great Silk Route, which bound all civilized mankind from China to the Atlantic coast at the (...)
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  Habib Qaderi

  Habib Qaderi has recently finished working on his new music video called Kajak Abro which is produced by Xtudio Productions and Ramish Films. It was released early this year. In March of 2008, he was awarded as Afghanistan’s most influential Persian-Speaking Artist of the year, among with artists such as Farhad Darya, Haidar Salim, Ehsan Aman, Valy Hedjasi and Najim Nawabi. And recently, the 3rd Annual Ariana (...)
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  Farhad Darya

  Here I present you two videos of Farhad Darya that I found on Youtube. They are in fact clips made of Indian movies on which fans of Darya put his music. The result is not annoying, especially because Darya’s compositions are not far from Indian music. The first one : The second — which I prefer — and the transcription of its lyrics in Persian: دنیا گذران و کار دنیا گذران خوش پیر شوی، ای یار جوان من (...)

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