Osman Mohammad-Parast, dotar virtuoso and top master of Khorasan maqami music, dies at 94

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
admitted to a hospital in his hometown of Khaf, Khorasan Razavi Province, for a lung infection, Persian media reported.He was a self-taught
about music coming from a traditional opposition to music among certain people in Iran
a route between Khaf and Mashhad
He then joined charitable groups setting up schools in remote regions
breakthrough in dotar playing, which was highly regarded by many top Iranian musicians such as vocalists Mohammadreza Shajarian, Sima Bina
and Shahram Nazeri, and kamancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor and tar master Jalil Shahnaz, with whom he gave several performances
Qorban Soleimani and several other singers of Khorasan maqami music
over the past few decades.The Khorasan Department of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts named him a Living Bearer of Intangible
Heritage and honored him with an Eternal Tile, which was embedded on the wall of his house in 2017.As a Sunni, Mohammad-Parast had said that
he learned music from God, Whom he believed is a lover of music
Imam Hussein (AS) and Hazrat Fatima (S) for his children
Mashhad was selected as the Islamic Culture Capital for 2017 by the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization