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Dr Sarmast's Music School
Afghanistan's Institute of Music helps revitalise a ruined culture and
gives children a chance to transform their lives.
Witness Last Modified: 17 Jan 2013 08:12
Filmmakers: Polly Watkins and Beth Frey
In 2001, when the Taliban was toppled from power, Afghanistan's musical
culture was left in ruins. Music gradually came back onto the streets and into
people's lives, but by 2009 there was still no orchestra capable of playing the
Afghan national anthem.
In that year, renowned musicologist Dr Ahmad Sarmast returned from exile
in Australia, and the Ministry of Education charged him with establishing the
first National Institute of Music (ANIM). Based in what had been Kabul's School
of Fine Arts, ANIM got off to a slow start: the building was a ruin and there
were virtually no instruments.
Dr Sarmast's Music School follows ANIM's progress over two years as,
gradually, the school is repaired and made habitable. Fine instruments - many
donated by foreign sponsors - flood in, and the school's 150 pupils gradually
learn to play to professional standards.
Perhaps, most importantly, ANIM offers hope to some of the country's most
deprived children; those snatching a meagre income from working on the streets
who find - through music - a way to transform their lives.
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