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4 unusual facts about Paul Caldani


Paul Caldani

A copy of this album is currently used as music reference at Harvard University's Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, under the direction of Prof. Wolfhart Heinrichs.

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Later, impressed by the music and he developed an intensive fascination with Iranian folk music, specifically Kurdish dance and Kurdish music.

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Caldani's research focused on accelerating his music background through holistic and dynamic understanding of Iranian folk music and also Assyro-Chaldean church hymns.

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In 1958, an Iranian TV children's program invited him to perform live Kurdish dance on TV where he performed Kurdish dance and playing the Tonbak and Daf until his late teens.



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