Sometimes it seems that classical Persian culture is welcome everywhere but at home in Iran. Music in particular has been badly buffeted in the Islamic Republic, where even the most venerable artists ...

Over time, most memories slip and fade, or blur into one amorphous string of incidents. But some are savoured so often that they remain fresh and unsmudged, and for me one of those indelible moments ...

I almost didn’t hear about this concert in time to share, but Iranian vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian, one of the greatest living practitioners of Persian classical music, is making a rare local ...

Titling Saturday night’s concert at Disney Hall “The Masters of Persian Music” was no exaggeration. The presence of vocalist Mohammad Reza Shajarian -- one of the greatest living practitioners of ...

This is the second day of Nowruz, the Persian New Year -- and over the weekend, a quartet of Iran's greatest classical musicians wrapped up their tour of North America. At home in Iran, these ...

Called "...one of the wonders of world trance music" by The Los Angeles Times, Mamak Khadem captivates audiences by blending her roots in the ancient poetry and music ...

Kayhan Kalhor has spent much of his adult life introducing Western audiences to the seductive subtleties of Iranian music. An unsurpassed master of the kamancheh, the ancient four-string Persian ...

TEHRAN, IranTEHRAN, Iran — Mohammad Reza Shajarian, whose distinctive voice quavered to traditional Persian music on state radio for years before supporting protesters following Iran’s contested 2009 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fan cries as she shows an image of the nation's famous singer Mohammad Reza Shajarian on her phone outside the Jam Hospital ...