Making Music Against The Odds

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"Seated cross-legged around the conductor's podium, on a u-shaped arrangement of risers covered in Afghan rugs, were smiling girls and boys—some as young as 10, others at the cusp of adulthood. Wearing colorful national dress, they played lutelike rubabs and tanburs; ghichaks, which look like banjos but are played with a bow; sitars; a variety of drums and other traditional instruments—in a combination of youthful joy and pride and sheer gratitude for what they have accomplished through access to music and education . . . "

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