This is an excerpt from the Preface to Hazaaron Khwahishein Aisi: The Wonderful World of Urdu Ghazals, selected, edited and translated by Anisur Rahman, HarperCollins India, detailing the journey of ...
The Grammy Award-winning Ghazal Ensemble reunite to perform their distinctive mix of Persian and Hindustani classical music, recalling age-old traditions which have been historically and culturally ...
KL Saigal (left) and Iqbal Bano. | Image of KL Saigal in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Screenshot of Iqbal Bano from Best Of Iqbal Bano Ghazals, Jukebox 2, Top 10 Best Pakistani Ghazal Hits; ...
With Nowruz just around the corner, The Skirball Cultural Center and the Irvine Barclay Theatre will celebrate the Persian New Year with two very special concerts by the Grammy-nominated Ghazal ...
THE only original text of the Dîivân of Hâfiz which can be read with any degree of pleasure, or without impairing and imperiling even the strongest eyesight, is contained in three beautifully printed ...
NEW YORK - Jagjit Singh — a singer of wide popularity in South Asia who helped revive and popularize ghazals, a venerable form of Persian poetry set to music expressing the writer’s feelings, ...
Daagh’s highly stylised and traditional mode of ghazal may have attracted composers and vocalists alike Daagh Dehlvi is one of the most sung poets. His ghazals sung by leading vocalists have turned ...
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"World music in general is growing," affirms recording artist Kayhan Kalhor, "but Persian music has been under-sung, for many political and social reasons." Many Americans, he realizes, aren't aware ...