http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/31-afghanistans+hopeful+music+revival-ll-01">Afghanistan's hopeful music revivalKABUL: From the outside, it looks like any other school in Kabul. A red two-story building is sealed off from the street by a high wall. A few trees stand in the front yard. Children constantly go in and out.
But listen carefully. When the noise of the traffic dies down, you can hear the gentle sounds of violins being played and the patter of drums. In this city where music was illegal less than a decade ago, a new generation of children is being raised to understand its joys.
''This school is unique in Afghanistan,'' said Muhammad Aziz, a 19-year-old student who dreams of becoming one of the world's greatest players of the tabla, a South Asian drum. ''It's the only professional music school and there are so many good teachers here.''
The new National Institute of Music has been offering some courses for the past several months, but the formal opening will be later in May. The school's aims: to revive long-neglected musical traditions, to stock schools with qualified teachers and, perhaps one day, to form the country's first symphony orchestra.
Of the school's students - there are 150 now, though there will soon be 300 - half are either orphans or among the tens of thousands of children who spend their days working on Afghanistan's streets....
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http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/world/31-afghanistans+hopeful+music+revival-ll-01 More awesomeness. This school will be constructed and run for 10 years for USD $11 million. FWIW, like the
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8344470">Afghan Tree Army, this could
never have taken place under the Taliban.
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