Mohammad Reza Shajarian: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
Every Tiny Desk Concert provides its own particular thrill, but it’s not every day that we get to welcome one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices to our offices. With the visit of the incredible, honey-voiced Mohammad Reza Shajarian from Iran, we lucked out by having him sing on not just any day, but on the biggest holiday of the Persian calendar: Nowruz, the New Year.
Joined by three excellent collaborators, brothers Sohrab and Tahmoures Pournazeri (celebrated musicians in their own right as leaders of Iran’s Shams Ensemble) and French percussionist Robin Vassy, Ostad (“Master“) Shajarian gave what amounted to a brief master class in the art of singing. In the course of this love song, titled “Az Eshgh,“ Shajarian unleashed torrents of swooping, soaring, goosebump-inducing sound — still perfectly controlled at age 73.
Over the past several years, Shajarian has emerged as a strong voice in other ways. Though he’s been an artistic icon for decades at home, he was never particularly outspoken on political issues. But si
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