Music under threat in Kabul
Kate Molleson is joined by musicians in Kabul to discuss the new restrictions on women singing - the ban, from the Afghan Ministry of Education, has caused concern that the Taliban is increasing its influence in the Afghan government as western forces prepare to pull out of the country. With contri…
Silk Afghanistan: Music Connecting Cultures
NATO hosts a classroom-to-classroom video exchange of musical selections and questions between students of Kelly High School in Chicago and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Includes sound bites from Ahmad Sarmast, Founder and Director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, NATO…
Music Under Restriction
As Music Matters returns to the airwaves for the Autumn, and classical music emerges from Covid along with the rest of the world, Tom Service assesses the current state of play with musicians and industry leaders, and asks them how much has really changed in the last eighteen months and what the fu…
The Year That Made Me: Ahmad Sarmast, 2008
Dr Ahmad Sarmast created the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul and then managed to move it to Portugal when the Taliban returned.
Meditation on Transforming Lives Through Music
The Afghanistan National Institute of Music has been a source of national pride and a symbol of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's renewed dedication to arts, culture and education. But what has the return of the Taliban meant for ANIM and music education in Afghanistan as a whole? How did the o…
International Women's Day - A Look At Current Human Rights Issues
Join in on a discussion of women's rights through the lens of current events in Afghanistan.
Hosted by Isabella Napodano, panelists included:
Journalist Zainab Farahmand
Dr. Alexandra Harrington
Dr. Ahmad Sarmast
The event was a collaboration of the Women's Law Caucus and the Women's Le…
Aurora Orchestra's Winterreise, Kerry Andrew, and Women at the Piano
Tom Service talks to pianist and writer, Susan Tomes, about her new book Women and the Piano - a History in 50 Lives. Those lives include well-known names today, from Clara Schumann to Nina Simone, but also many women like Marianne Martinez who have been eclipsed from previous histories of pianists…
Ahmad Sarmast: Saving Afghanistan's Music
In the second part of this two-segment conversation, Sayed asks Dr. Sarmast about his upbringing, the inspiration to build a music school for the most disadvantaged kids, and why the country's art scene was so prolific when he grew up during the second half of the 20th century.Guest: Ahmad Naser Sa…
Racism Rears its Ugly Head ... Again
Just as soon as Kamala Harris' presidential campaign began nearly four weeks ago, so too did the ugly, age-old racist attacks, with Donald Trump questioning his rival's race in a sit-down interview with Black journalists. Bianna speaks with Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Harvard, and an expert…
Afghanistan’s Ahmad Sarmast: Keeping Music Alive
Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), Afghanistan’s first modern music academy, established in 2010 to preserve the beautiful musical heritage of his country after years of rule under the Taliban had attempted to ban and eradicate all musical culture. Bri…
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