Persian classical music goes back more than two thousand years, predating Islam. Maybe that’s why the tradition has had such a rocky relationship with the dominant religion over the years. Curtis Fox traces the renaissance of Persian classical music back to the Revolution of 1979, when nobody knew at first if music itself would survive.
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