The first of its kind, the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, closed down in August 2021 as its members faced persecution from the Taliban, who violently opposed all secular music. Dr. Ahmad ...

The lights at Hotel The Kingsbury glowed warm against the evening sky, but the real spark was inside. More than 100 people, Toastmasters from Damak, Dharan, Kathmandu, community leaders, and curious ...

Should we celebrate with Handel's Hallelujah chorus or Beethoven's "Ode to Joy"? Either one fits the news of the Florida West Coast Symphony board's unanimous decision to stay in the heart of Sarasota ...

Gustav Mahler's "Symphony No. 5" is massive in both orchestra size and content. It embraces an emotional journey of the human spirit through courage and hope, as does Shulamit Ran's "Vessels of ...

Afghanistan's only music school, the Afghan National Institute of Music (ANIM), has been relocated to the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, so that young musicians can continue to learn and develop. Since ...

South Bend Symphony Orchestra Music Director Alastair Willis has brought the SBSO, South Bend Lyric Opera and the South Bend Chamber Singers together to perform Verdi's "La Traviata" on March 13, 2022 ...

“When the judge takes his seat, / whatever is hidden shall be made manifest, / nothing shall remain unavenged.” Those words, from the “Liber scriptus” of the Catholic Mass for the dead, might have ...

Symphony of Courage tells the story of Farida and Zohra Ahmadi. They were the last students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music to be evacuated from the country after the Taliban takeover ...