Iran-Music-US - IRNA, Islamic Republic News Agency
Sunday, May 7, 2006
The US Petersburg Symphonic Orchestra will, for the first time, perform a concert with lyrics composed of works of a renowned Iranian poet on May 12-14.
According to the English-language 'Iran Daily', the concert, with lyrics composed of works of the prominent Iranian mystic and poet Molana Jalaleddin Rumi is to be held in Pennsylvania.
The concert titled 'Essence of Love' was composed by a distinguished Iranian composer Reza Vaali who is a music instructor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.
Vaali was a graduate from Tehran's Academy of Music when he moved to Austria in 1972 and succeeded to receive his PhD in theoretical music and composition from Petersburg University in 1985.
He composed 'Essence of Love' in form of five alternative songs based on Molana's poems.
Molana Jalaleddin Mohammad Rumi, is a 13th century Persian poet, jurist, theologian and teacher of Sufism. (1207-1273 CE), whose works are translated in many languages.
The concert, which will be held in Heinz Hall in the center of Petersburg, is expected to be a hit among the Americans in view of the universal fame of Molana in poetry and mysticism as well as Vaali's erudition in music.
An online poetry contest is also organized by the orchestra for those who buy tickets of the event.
The objective of the contest is to honor the great Iranian poet whose poems are at the core of the event, it said.
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Concert with Molana lyrics
Iran-Music-US - IRNA, Islamic Republic News Agency
Sunday, May 7, 2006
The US Petersburg Symphonic Orchestra will, for the first time, perform a concert with lyrics composed of works of a renowned Iranian poet on May 12-14.
According to the English-language 'Iran Daily', the concert, with lyrics composed of works of the prominent Iranian mystic and poet Molana Jalaleddin Rumi is to be held in Pennsylvania.
The concert titled 'Essence of Love' was composed by a distinguished Iranian composer Reza Vaali who is a music instructor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.
Vaali was a graduate from Tehran's Academy of Music when he moved to Austria in 1972 and succeeded to receive his PhD in theoretical music and composition from Petersburg University in 1985.
He composed 'Essence of Love' in form of five alternative songs based on Molana's poems.
Molana Jalaleddin Mohammad Rumi, is a 13th century Persian poet, jurist, theologian and teacher of Sufism. (1207-1273 CE), whose works are translated in many languages.
The concert, which will be held in Heinz Hall in the center of Petersburg, is expected to be a hit among the Americans in view of the universal fame of Molana in poetry and mysticism as well as Vaali's erudition in music.
An online poetry contest is also organized by the orchestra for those who buy tickets of the event.
The objective of the contest is to honor the great Iranian poet whose poems are at the core of the event, it said.
Sunday, May 7, 2006
The US Petersburg Symphonic Orchestra will, for the first time, perform a concert with lyrics composed of works of a renowned Iranian poet on May 12-14.
According to the English-language 'Iran Daily', the concert, with lyrics composed of works of the prominent Iranian mystic and poet Molana Jalaleddin Rumi is to be held in Pennsylvania.
The concert titled 'Essence of Love' was composed by a distinguished Iranian composer Reza Vaali who is a music instructor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania.
Vaali was a graduate from Tehran's Academy of Music when he moved to Austria in 1972 and succeeded to receive his PhD in theoretical music and composition from Petersburg University in 1985.
He composed 'Essence of Love' in form of five alternative songs based on Molana's poems.
Molana Jalaleddin Mohammad Rumi, is a 13th century Persian poet, jurist, theologian and teacher of Sufism. (1207-1273 CE), whose works are translated in many languages.
The concert, which will be held in Heinz Hall in the center of Petersburg, is expected to be a hit among the Americans in view of the universal fame of Molana in poetry and mysticism as well as Vaali's erudition in music.
An online poetry contest is also organized by the orchestra for those who buy tickets of the event.
The objective of the contest is to honor the great Iranian poet whose poems are at the core of the event, it said.
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