Difference between revisions of "The Music of Rumi: a concert performance"
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| − | * The poetry of Rumi, | + | * The poetry of Rumi, sung by Mehdi Samadi, Persian classical musician |
* The poetry of Rumi, performed by Najva Persian music ensemble | * The poetry of Rumi, performed by Najva Persian music ensemble | ||
* Ecstatic music and dance from the West African Music Esemble | * Ecstatic music and dance from the West African Music Esemble | ||
Revision as of 13:54, 16 November 2007
A multimedia event...
Rumi by Haydar Hatemi
Listen to the reed and the tale it tells,
How it sings of separation...
The music of Rumi is...
- the song of the reed flute, nay
- music in the sound of Rumi's poetry
- music as metaphor in Rumi's poetry
- musical settings of Rumi's poetry
- music as a metaphor for the performance of all mystical love texts
- music as a metaphor for the ritual experience of Rumi's poetry, for Rumi as Mevlana, as saint
- music as a metaphor for mystical experience and spirituality generally
- music as a metaphor for the harmonious machinery of the cosmos, the synchrony of micro/macrocosm, the mutual whirling of human and universe...
The concert is...
- Dance-recitations, performed by Geha Gonthier: the poetry of Rumi, and other mystical poets...with musical accompaniment on tar, nay, violin
- Rumi recitations, performed by Saleem Qureshi, with musical accompaniment on sarangi, nay
- The Indian Music Ensemble
- Kreisha Oro
- Songs of love, from The Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble
- The poetry of Rumi, sung by Mehdi Samadi, Persian classical musician
- The poetry of Rumi, performed by Najva Persian music ensemble
- Ecstatic music and dance from the West African Music Esemble
