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	Rumi symphony project You knew that anticipation ran high for the Rumi Symphony Project, assembled by the Iranian composer Hafez Nazeri, long before you set foot inside Carnegie Hall on Saturday night. Shortly ahead of curtain time, ticket lines still extended to the sidewalk. Even after the start was delayed for 20 minutes, dozens of audience members (and at ...
	An Iranian Musician Composes Songs of Peace Thank the famous Iranian singer Shahram Nazeri for helping to popularize Rumi, a 13th century Middle Eastern poet whose verses about finding an inner god struck a chord with New Agers in the West. “When my father sang Rumi everybody laughed at him. Now, Madonna sings Rumi, too,” says Nazeri’s son Hafez.The junior Nazeri predicts a similar ...
	Bridging the Persian Gulf Iranian composer Hafez Nazeri has spent the past decade shaking up traditional Persian music. This month, he brings his signature style to New York. HAFEZ NAZERI takes the idea of cultural fusion very seriously. The 30-year-old Iranian composer-who brings his modern version of Persian classical song to Carnegie Hall on November 14, becoming ...
	Hafez Nazeri: 'A new kind of classical music' Whatever you do, don’t describe 30-year-old composer Hafez Nazeri’s blend of traditional Iranian sounds and Western classical motifs as “world music.”The mere mention of the folk genre — to which journalists and record labels have consigned him — caused Nazeri to balk during an interview.“No, it’s not world music at all,” ...
	Hafez Nazeri To Premiere First Modern Iranian Instrument Known for his innovative blend of Persian and Western musical styles, 30-year-old Iranian musician Hafez Nazeri has created a new instrument: the "Hafez." Named in honor of his own namesake – the great 13th century mystic poet – the "Hafez" extends the range of the setar by incorporating two additional low strings, crafting greater melodic ...
	Dreaming of Peace, Hafez Nazeri Heads to Carnegie Hall For Hafez Nazeri, the opportunity to be the first Iranian composer to headline Carnegie Hall with his opus titled “Iranian Sounds of Peace” will fulfill a dream of helping promote peace and understanding between Eastern and Western cultures, especially after the crackdown on the 2009 Iranian election protests in June.The New York debut ...
	Shahram and Hafez Nazeri the passion of Rumi In North America, we never really paid that much attention to the Muslim world until events forced us to. The revolution in Iran in 1980 that saw the overthrow of the American backed Shah and the seizing of the American Embassy in Teheran changed all of that. Instead of taking these events as an object lesson, a warning about the level of ...
	Rumi's Time Has Come (Again) The 13th-century Persian poet inspired a symphony in Los Angeles recently that brought 2,000 people to their feet. About 750,000 books of his poetry have been sold, a quantity that would make many Pulitzer Prize-winning poets drool. The University of Maryland is hosting a three-day conference about him in September. Some would call it the ...
	In need of surtitle Nazeri and his four-piece Iranian ensemble were greeted like rock stars. The audience shrieked and whistled. The band then sat and tuned lutes and kamancheh fiddles for five minutes. Shahram Nazeri is one of Iran's leading vocalists, renowned for his spiritual Sufi singing of Rumi, the Persian mystic whose 800th anniversary was celebrated ...
	Passion at the heart of Persian music A tradition of mysticism endows Iranian singer Shahram Nazeri with an otherworldly power, says Ivan Hewett A few weeks before Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad received his drubbing from the students of Columbia University, another high-profile Iranian faced an expectant American audience. But this was at the Walt Disney Concert Hall ...