Cybercasts related to the Near East Section, African and Middle Eastern Reading Room, Library of Congress
Under the March 29, 2005 entry is posted a link to the Chakavak Ensemble cybercast concert of Persian classical music. Sorry, but it's in Real Media format.
The concert is preceded by about 10 minutes of introductory lectures.
Ensemble Director and Center for Persian Classical Music instructor Nader Majd's intro to Persian music theory starts at 6:47, immediately followed by the first section of the concert, which is a series of improvised tar and tonbak duets. The next section features the ensemble.
The full Chakavak Orchestra is quite a bit larger of course, with setar players, a harpist, a vocalist, more drummers, etc. As I may have mentioned previously, we learn Persian music here in two ways - one by studying and playing tightly arranged ensemble music, the other by studying and practicing the Radif, the improvisational repertoire of Persian music, which is the equivalent of standards in jazz, raga in Hindustani classical music, etc.
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