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After dinner, the crowd moved to the Eliot House library to listen to classical Persian music played on the santoor (a dulcimer-like instrument) and donbak (drums). Audience members also heard a recitation of Persian poetry and a lecture by Mashots Professor of Armenian Studies James R. Russell on the origin of the celebration...

Author: By Victoria E.M. Cain, | Title: Iranian New Year Observed | 3/22/1995 | See Source »

...addition to vocal music, Shankar presented ten masters of strange-sounding wind and percussion instruments-the sarod, santoor, shehnai, sarangi, mri-dangam and venu. It was a first of sorts when the players all padded onstage to perform Shankar's ensemble piece, V-7½, a vigorous ten-minute raga played at a tricky 7½ beats to the bar. It was also the first time that so many Indian musicians had been seen west of Bombay on one Oriental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Utter Joy Uninhibited | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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