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Jeff Spurgeon: From Carnegie Hall, we welcome you to the final concert of Carnegie's Phenomenal World Orchestra Week. A celebration and showcase of the youth orchestras from around the world. Mostly teenage musicians who have come to New York City in the past seven days from Venezuela, from China, from across Europe, and across Africa and across the United States to be part of this extraordinary music festival. Tonight, musicians from Afghanistan, by way of Portugal, the Afghan Youth Orchestra, performing alongside members of the European Union Youth Orchestra in the last concert of this festival. Backstage at Carnegie Hall, as these musicians go by us, headed for a backstage, rather back of the hall entrance onto the Carnegie Hall stage. I'm Jeff Spurgeon alongside John Schaefer.

John Schaefer: There is quite a story, as you might imagine, to the Afghan Youth Orchestra. It is the premier ensemble of the Afghanistan Institute of Music, founded in 2010 by Dr. Ahmad Naser

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The subtext of Carnegie Hall’s youth festival World Orchestra Week (WOW!), which wrapped Wednesday night with a rousing concert by the Afghan Youth Orchestra, has always been hope.

Hope that classical music–seemingly forever endangered by competing amusements, budget deficits, and an aging audience—will live on through the love and dedication of the young players whose skills have been wowing audiences all week. Hope that the matchless energy of young people can be channeled into enterprises that make the world a better place.

And in the case of these musicians from Afghanistan, hope that music itself will someday have a country to come home to.

In remarks from the stage, four teenage players and the director of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) drew a picture of “a silent nation” under the fundamentalist rule of the Taliban regime, where not only Western symphonies and concertos but traditional ragas and folk music are proscribed.

They also described a society in which severe restrictions on girls and women are silencing the talents of half the popu

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8th August

Concert will begin at 00:00 hours GMT

The Afgan Youth Orchestra plays Sarahang, Nainawaz, Saburi and more in New York

World Orchestra Week. The Afgan Youth Orchestra conducted by Tiago Moreira da Silva plays:

Trad. Rag Pilu/ Rag Bihag.

Ustad Mohammad Hussain SARAHANG: Tark-e Arezo.

Trad.: Banda-ye Khoda.

Ustad NAINAWAZ: Saqi Ba Khoda/ Aan Selsela.

Amir Jan SABURI: Sarzamine Man.

Pa Bismillah Qadam Rawakhla.

SHANKAR / JAIKISHAN: Mera Joota Hai Japani.

BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G Minor.

William HARVEY: Saudade do Afeganistão.

KODÁLY: Intermezzo from Háry János Suite.

Ustad NAINAWAZ: Ay Nay Naway Jawedan/ Pa Loyo Ghro.

Maste Mange Bar.

Abdul Wahab MADADI: Watan Eshq Tu Eftekharam.

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