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The Gould StandardAfghanistan’s Ahmad Sarmast: Keeping Music AliveDr. Ahmad Sarmast, founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), Afghanistan’s first modern music academy, established in 2010 to preserve the beautiful musical heritage of his country after years of rule under the Taliban had attempted to ban and eradicate all musical culture. Bringing together a diverse student body that included young women and children from the most disadvantaged rung of society, ANIM was founded both to teach music and promote human advancement and social justice.
Dr. Sarmast, a true musical hero, shares his powerful journey in this episode of The Gould Standard. We dive into the origins of...2024-10-241h 43
The Gould StandardAfghanistan’s Ahmad Sarmast: Keeping Music AliveDr. Ahmad Sarmast, founder of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), Afghanistan’s first modern music academy, established in 2010 to preserve the beautiful musical heritage of his country after years of rule under the Taliban had attempted to ban and eradicate all musical culture. Bringing together a diverse student body that included young women and children from the most disadvantaged rung of society, ANIM was founded both to teach music and promote human advancement and social justice.
Dr. Sarmast, a true musical hero, shares his powerful journey in this episode of The Gould Standard. We dive into the origins of...2024-10-241h 43
AmanpourRacism Rears its Ugly Head ... AgainJust as soon as Kamala Harris' presidential campaign began nearly four weeks ago, so too did the ugly, age-old racist attacks, with Donald Trump questioning his rival's race in a sit-down interview with Black journalists. Bianna speaks with Randall Kennedy, a law professor at Harvard, and an expert on the history of race and politics. Also on today's show: Raj M. Shah and Christopher Kirchhoff, co-authors of “Unit X: How the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Are Transforming the Future of War”; Ahmad Sarmast, founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music Learn m...2024-08-091h 01
Bilbao Kultura Social ForumThe threat of single-mindedness, by Ahmad Sarmast (Afghanistan National Institute of Music)Ahmad Naser Sarmast es un etnomusicólogo afgano-australiano. Es el fundador y director del Instituto Nacional de Música de Afganistán. Como su padre, Ustad Salim Sarmast, que fue un famoso músico, compositor y director de orquesta en Afganistán, Ahmad creció expuesto a una amplia variedad de influencias musicales. Sarmast obtuvo un Máster en musicología en 1993 en el Conservatorio Estatal de Moscú.
En 2005, Sarmast se convirtió en el primer afgano en obtener un doctorado en música, obteniendo su doctorado en la Universidad de Monash. Por invitación del Ministerio de Educación afgano, Sarm...2024-07-0943 min
NYUAD InstituteHarmonizing HopeIn this talk, Dr. Sarmast, Founder and Director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM), shares the inspiring journey of ANIM—a remarkable institution that has overcome adversity to emerge as a national and global symbol of hope, resilience, and artistic freedom. The presentation explores how ANIM—known as Afghanistan’s happiest place— plays a critical role in preserving the nation’s rich musical heritage, while offering a platform for all young Afghans to find their voices and develop their musical abilities. The narrative illustrates the unbreakable spirit of human creativity and music's transformative power in overcoming difficult circumstances by highlig...2024-03-221h 06
KabulCastAhmad Sarmast: Saving Afghanistan's MusicIn the second part of this two-segment conversation, Sayed asks Dr. Sarmast about his upbringing, the inspiration to build a music school for the most disadvantaged kids, and why the country's art scene was so prolific when he grew up during the second half of the 20th century.Guest: Ahmad Naser SarmastGuest Host: Sayed MadadiMusic copyright: Afghanistan National Institute of MusicFollow us on Social Media:InstagramTwitterFacebook© KabulCast by KabulNowSu...2024-03-1741 min
Music MattersAurora Orchestra's Winterreise, Kerry Andrew, and Women at the PianoTom Service talks to pianist and writer, Susan Tomes, about her new book Women and the Piano - a History in 50 Lives. Those lives include well-known names today, from Clara Schumann to Nina Simone, but also many women like Marianne Martinez who have been eclipsed from previous histories of pianists. Tom and Susan discuss how women went from being the Queens of the piano in domestic settings to being excluded from public performances and conservatoires during the development of the concert piano. Pianist, Lucy Parham, talks to Tom too about the impact that Susan's book has had on her...2024-03-0944 minKabulCastSurvival of the Art: The Resilience of Afghanistan National Institute of MusicIn this two-part conversation, Sayed talks to Ahmad Naser Sarmast, the founding director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, now based in Portugal. They discuss how the school ended up in Portugal, what the future holds for it, and the life of the man at the heart of it all.Guest: Ahmad Naser SarmastGuest Host: Sayed Madadi© Musics:Afghanistan National Institute of MusicQasim Bakhsh - Kharabat"Arsala Khan" Afghanistan and Northern IrelandFollow us on Social Media:InstagramTwitterFacebook© KabulCast by KabulNowSupport the show2024-03-0237 min
P1 KulturÄr superhjältarna ett hot mot demokratin?Superhjältarna har tagit biograferna med storm men i USA växer nu kritiken mot genren som vissa tycker påverkar det politiska samtalet negativt - rent utav hotar demokratin. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radio Play. AFGHANISTANS MUSIK LEVERNär talibanerna återtog makten i Afghanistan tog landets nationella musikinstitut med sig hundratals elever och gick i exil. Flykten leddes av musiketnologen och polarpristagaren Ahmad Sarmast, som besöker Stockholm i veckan för ett kulturpolitiskt toppmöte. Han berättar om den dramatiska flykten för P1 Kulturs Mattias Ber...2023-05-0553 min
NATO-TVSilk Afghanistan: Music Connecting CulturesNATO hosts a classroom-to-classroom video exchange of musical selections and questions between students of Kelly High School in Chicago and the Afghanistan National Institute of Music. Includes sound bites from Ahmad Sarmast, Founder and Director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, NATO Ambassador, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic, Mohammad Khan, Music Teacher, Negin Khapawlak, Student, Hojat Hameed, Student, and Ricardo Fores, Student of Kelly High School.2023-04-1803 min
Amanpour'They are afraid of an educated woman'Every new dawn in Afghanistan seems to bring with it a new Taliban edict against women. Tolo News – Afghanistan’s leading independent news channel – has been told by the Ministry of Virtue that its female presenters must cover their faces when anchoring. Tolo has a long history of success and sacrifice, with a display case in their bureau dedicated to two reporters killed in a bomb attack in 2018. Despite everything, it’s managed to stay on the air, and female staff play a leading role. But now their future is in jeopardy, as Christiane found out today when she visited...2022-05-2055 min
Amanpour'They are afraid of an educated woman'Every new dawn in Afghanistan seems to bring with it a new Taliban edict against women. Tolo News – Afghanistan’s leading independent news channel – has been told by the Ministry of Virtue that its female presenters must cover their faces when anchoring. Tolo has a long history of success and sacrifice, with a display case in their bureau dedicated to two reporters killed in a bomb attack in 2018. Despite everything, it’s managed to stay on the air, and female staff play a leading role. But now their future is in jeopardy, as Christiane found out today when she visited their ne...2022-05-2055 min
Albany Law School PodcastInternational Women's Day - A Look At Current Human Rights IssuesJoin in on a discussion of women's rights through the lens of current events in Afghanistan.
Hosted by Isabella Napodano, panelists included:
Journalist Zainab Farahmand
Dr. Alexandra Harrington
Dr. Ahmad Sarmast
The event was a collaboration of the Women's Law Caucus and the Women's Leadership Initiative.2022-03-1159 min
The FollowChanging Perceptions About Afghanistan with Mina SharifIn this episode, we speak with media consultant Mina Sharif, an incredibly accomplished yet twice-displaced citizen of Afghanistan. When she was less than a year old, her family was forced to flee and eventually immigrated to Canada, where she was raised. In early 2005, she traveled back to Afghanistan and volunteered with women-managed radio stations across the country. In this conversation, Mina discusses reconnecting with her Afghan heritage, combating the misconceptions surrounding Afghan culture, hearing about Afghanistan from Afghan voices, and so much more. Show notes:Baghch-e-Simsim: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghch-e-SimsimDurkhanum Sewing Circle of Kabul: h...2022-03-021h 08
Meditations OnMeditation on Transforming Lives Through MusicThe Afghanistan National Institute of Music has been a source of national pride and a symbol of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan's renewed dedication to arts, culture and education. But what has the return of the Taliban meant for ANIM and music education in Afghanistan as a whole? How did the organization navigate the chaotic and rapid fall of the previous government? And what are its plans for the future? In December of 2021, Meditations On host Ilter Ibrahimof discussed these issues with ANIM founder and director Dr. Ahmad Sarmast at his and the school's new home of Lisbon, Portugal.2022-02-2320 min
Front RowAndrea Arnold, Claire Fuller, Afghanistan National Institute of MusicFilmmaker Andrea Arnold on her first documentary film, Cow, about the life of two cows, which one critic described as 'a meaty slice of bovine socio-realism.' We talk to Dr Ahmad Sarmast, founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, about the organisation's recent departure from the country.And Claire Fuller has won the Costa Novel Award 2021 for her book Unsettled Ground, about twins in their 50s living in rural England, struggling to make ends meet and negotiating family secrets. She’ll talk about what winning the prize means to her....2022-01-0542 minMusic MattersMusic Under RestrictionAs Music Matters returns to the airwaves for the Autumn, and classical music emerges from Covid along with the rest of the world, Tom Service assesses the current state of play with musicians and industry leaders, and asks them how much has really changed in the last eighteen months and what the future holds. Gillian Moore, Director of Music at the Southbank Centre in London, and Roger Wright, Chief Executive of the newly-merged Britten Pears Arts in Suffolk, explain how they navigated the issues raised for their organisations by Covid restrictions, and what they take from these experiences moving...2021-09-1144 minFront RowMusic in Afghanistan, The Song Project, Manchester CollectiveDr Ahmad Sarmast, founder and director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music tells John Wilson of his fears and hopes for music-making as his country falls under the control of the Taliban.Some things can only be expressed in song. That’s the idea behind The Song Project at the Royal Court Theatre where five of our foremost female playwrights - E.V. Crowe, Sabrina Mahfouz, Somalia Nonyé Seaton, Stef Smith and Debris Stevenson - collaborate with composer Isobel Waller-Bridge, choreographer Imogen Knight, designer Chloe Lamford and the Dutch singer Wende, who will be performing the son...2021-08-1628 minMusic MattersMusic under threat in KabulKate Molleson is joined by musicians in Kabul to discuss the new restrictions on women singing - the ban, from the Afghan Ministry of Education, has caused concern that the Taliban is increasing its influence in the Afghan government as western forces prepare to pull out of the country. With contributions from Ahmad Sarmast, Director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, and pianist Maram Abdullah.Following the death earlier this month of the conductor James Levine, Kate hears from the American music critic Anne Midgette and conductor Kenneth Woods as they discuss the moral questions surrounding...2021-03-2744 min
BIC TALKSMusic and South AsiaAmbassador Nirupama Menon Rao speaks to artists and scholars Ahmad Naser Sarmast, Neil Nongkynrih and Ravibandhu Vidyapathi about how a South Asian identity can be expressed through music. This is a follow-up to Episode 86 of BIC Talks, and an edited version a live online event hosted by the South Asian Symphony Foundation. The foundation’s co-founder Ambassador Menon Rao spoke to five artistes from across South Asia, and three of them are featured on this episode. The full event can be accessed on the SASF YouTube channel. Ahmad Naser Sarmast is an Afghan-Australian ethnomusicologist. He is...2021-01-2926 min