Five years ago I was involved in a pretty crazy adventure, lending a hand to a diverse group of people which included Juilliard Music School, the Estonian Intelligence Minister, the Portuguese Defense Minister, the Qatari Royal Family, and Yo Yo Ma as we sought to help get the Afghanistan National Institute of Music out of Kabul and the clutches of the Taliban (it was the largest evacuation of a music school in human history — you can read the whole story here).

And of course, Dr. Ahmad Sarmast, the music schools storied leader.

There is nothing that the Taliban is more afraid of than a young girl with a violin. Makes them tremble to the core. ANIM continues to play. They do concerts around Europe and North America. They write music. They recruit more students. And they have grown up. Five years later, a lot of the students are adults. They are looking at what to do with their lives. Many have not seen their parents or family members for five years.

I have a rising high-schooler myself; it’s a stressful enough time, I can’t imagine making the tremendous leaps of the teenage years in a foreign country, after having your own country fall to dictatorship, far away from the comforts you know and love and from family who you can only see through a screen. This is all testament to the courage and resilience of the Afghans and of Sarmast who holds them together with discipline and compassion.

Take a time to watch this new composition, “Adam and Eve,” and share it with your networks. Make it go viral. Make it flow like water over the Khyber Pass and shake Tora Bora with its resonance. It is music more than more violence that will bring the end of the Taliban’s wicked rule.