What Did Pahlavi Iran Sound Like
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Four sounds on one staff, 1928 to 1979: classical music on state radio and the Golha programmes, café pop, cassette-era rock and the Shiraz Arts Festival.
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Short takes
Tehran had its own symphony orchestra by 1933. Gholamhossein Minbashian founded it as the Municipality Symphony Orchestra, and it grew into today's Tehran Symphony Orchestra.
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The Golha programmes, created by Davoud Pirnia in 1956, paired classical Persian poetry with music, so every broadcast was part concert, part poetry recital.
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In 1971 the composer Iannis Xenakis premiered Persepolis at the Shiraz Arts Festival, an eight-channel tape piece made for the ruins themselves.
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