"Sound of Iran" at University of Southern California (USC), United University Church

Separation (Ayriligh)

Beautiful love song from northwestern province of Azerbaijan, amazingly emotional and beautifully subtle love illustrated in this piece is the story of a lover who can not sleep at nights thinking of his beloved and he can not even stop thinking of her. He sings with himself that harsher than any pain is separation...

Desires (Arezooha)

The heavenly desires of a couple in love asking to be somewhere far away from daily life worries as their hearts are so deeply in love with eachother that they want to fly over the skies and pass through the clouds...

My Dear Maryam (Nazanin-e Maryam)

Nazanin-e Maryam is perhaps one of the most emotional and beautiful love songs in Persian. A folklore Iranian song telling the story of a lover who recites all the beautiful memories of being together with his beloved "Maryam" at the time when his beloved is far and the guy asks for all these separations to be over and he can see Maryam once again even if it was only in his dreams...

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[Leila Vaziri-Farhani (Piano), Hossein Ataei (Vocal)
Concert sponsored by Iranian Graduate Students Association IGSA and USC International Students Assembly]