Iran’s famous orchestra barred from performance over female musicians
A high-profile performance in Iran by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra was cancelled at the last minute because it was due to feature female musicians. The orchestra conductor Ali Rahbari said on Sunday he was told 15 minutes before the orchestra was scheduled to play at a major sporting event that they could not. “The chairs […]
Over 100-year old Korean Traditional music recordings discovered
Eleven rare albums of gugak, or traditional Korean music, dating back to the Korean Empire (1897-1910) have been uncovered by the Korea Traditional Music Association, the group announced Monday. The discovery of the eleven albums, released under the early American recording company Victor Talking Machine Company in the early 1900s, was confirmed by Archive and […]
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