Carnegie Hall, one of the most prestigious stages in US, has become the venue for the Festival Shashmaqom Forever. Within the festival there were organized the concert of maqom performers from Uzbekistan and international scientific-practical conference Shashmaqom in the 21^st Century.

Singers and musicians brilliantly performed the program that included various parts of shashmaqom and instrumental fragments from the repertoire of the outstanding figure in music art Turghun Alimatov.

Sons of Turghun Alimatov the musicians Alisher and Valisher, and grandson the singer Abror Zufarov came to New York specially for the concert performed together with their American colleagues. All participants of the concert were handed with letters of recommendation for the contribution to the development of classical music. The concert turned the remarkable event in the cultural life of New York and brought it residents closer to the rich cultural-historical heritage and singular art of Uzbekistan.