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How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Start in Kabul

04 Monday Feb 2013

Posted by StudiesIslamica in Music - Afghanistan

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Afghanistan National Institute of MusicEvery night, Mohsen, a slight, awkward 13-year-old boy, goes home from school to an orphanage here and does something that would probably have been impossible a dozen years ago: he practices his violin before going to bed. The instrument, he said, has become his closest friend. “It has a sad voice,” he said.

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