A new donation has helped secure the future for UCLA’s Iranian music program. The program will hold the first fund-supported event “Classical Persian Music: Hossein Omoumi, from Isfahan to Irvine” on ...

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, once dubbed "the Pavarotti of Persian classical music" by the Toronto Globe & Mail, had never been known as a particularly political person. That was before the widely ...

The santur sounds out of another time. Out of place, too, in a New Haven apartment. The Persian instrument has been played for centuries. As first-year music doctoral student Hadas Bram GRD ’31 sits ...