Shiraz Arts Festival

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The man in question is the long-gone, world-renowned Arthur Rubinstein, a Polish-Jewish American classical pianist.It seems incredible today to imagine that homeland- a country just beginning to emerge from over three decades of revolution, war, political intrigue, pariah status and isolation, could have been the focus of what the organisers claim was ‘one of the most adventurous and idiosyncratic festivals in the world.’

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