On June 7, 2010, Mohammad Reza Shajarian, the iconic figure of Iran's classical music made a presentation of his newly designed intruments at York university's Accolade East building, in Toronto, ON, Canada.
SIMORQ (a legendary supernatural bird in Persian literature)
Ferdowsi’s poetic opus, the Shahnameh, is not only one of the most extraordinary works in Persian literature – it ranks among the masterpieces of the world’s literary treasures. In sheer magnitude, with over fifty thousand verses, our national epic comprises more than twice the number of verses of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad and twenty times more than the German epic, Nibelungensage.
