Twenty-one-year-old Arson Fahim, pianist, composer and conductor from Kabul, flew to Boston, USA, only a couple of weeks ago, with a scholarship to st.
BBC News
By Huong Ly
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image caption All those years, I dreamed that one day I could touch a real piano, Fahim said.
Arson Fahim was five years old when he first saw Roman Polanski s World War Two film The Pianist.
Fahim was living at the time in an orphanage for Afghan refugee children in Pakistan. He walked into a room one day where children and staff were watching the film, and on screen a hungry and terrified Polish Jew was playing the piano for a German officer - playing for his life. What I saw captivated me, Fahim recalled. I went to bed every night with the image in my head. I remember thinking, Wow, how could a piano and the sound of it save someone s life?