“In his home in Lahore, Pakistan, Saleem Khan holds up his late father’s violin. There are no strings, the wood is scratched and the bridge is missing. ‘There was a time when people used to come to Lahore from all over the world to hear its musicians,’ the 65-year-old violinist says in the new documentary, Song of Lahore. “Now we can’t even find someone to repair our violins.”
Read more about the documentary and the committed efforts of a small group to revive the tradition of classical music in Pakistan.