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\nCarnegie Hall is an impressive feat for any musician, but for the Afghanistan National Institute of Music’s youth orchestra, this was almost unimaginable\u2026until now.<\/p>\n
One may ask how this would be such an impressive event?\u00a0 In Afghanistan, the Taliban banned music.\u00a0 Fortunately, there are good people in the world that helped turn this around.<\/p>\n
Ahmad Sarmast, who has a Ph. D. in music from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia founded the school with the help of several embassies.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cPart of our commitment is to promote musical diversity in Afghanistan.\u201d, Sarmast says.<\/p>\n
The kids, many of whom are in orphanages, have picked up the music at an incredible pace.\u00a0 The school was only founded two years ago and the kids are already playing for crowds.<\/p>\n
Recently, 48 kids from the school flew to New York’s Carnegie Hall to perform Afghan music to a crowd!<\/p>\n
“With these two big concerts in New York and Washington, we are showing people not to give up on Afghanistan.\u201d, says Mr. Harvey, the orchestra’s conductor.\u00a0 We couldn’t have said it better \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
And that’s what’s good,
Jon
The Good World News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"