Afghan music: Concerto for shattered instruments, broken lives and new dreams Outlawed Afghan music is flourishing once more, finds Michael Church Sunday 10 March 2002 01:00 GMT ...

The group recently announced that it has destroyed more than 21,000 musical instruments in the past year—part of its broader, brutal effort to crush the spirit and culture of the Afghan people.

The Taliban on Monday burned musical instruments worth thousands of dollars in the western Herat province of Afghanistan, defending their actions with the argument that music corrupts morality ...

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 ...

The group recently announced that it has destroyed more than 21,000 musical instruments in the past year—part of its broader, brutal effort to crush the spirit and culture of the Afghan people.

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 ...

Afghan pianist uses his instrument as a weapon against Taliban oppression 06:53. Close ×. Copy the code below to ... the militant regime deemed music morally corrupt and banned it.

[FILE] Afghan students learn to play musical instruments at the Aga Khan music training center in Herat, Afghanistan, 21 August 2013. EPA/FILE/JALIL REZAYEE ...

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 ...

UNESCO-listed musical instrument stifled in Afghanistan. Herat (Afghanistan) (AFP) – Wood shavings littered the floor of Sakhi's cramped workshop in the Afghan city of Herat as another rubab ...

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.

The Taliban have burned musical instruments in Afghanistan, claiming music "causes moral corruption". Thousands of dollars worth of musical equipment went up in smoke on a bonfire on Saturday in ...