A Rumi Night of Poetry and Music
With Peter Rogen, reading,
Steve Gorn on flute and John deKadt on percussion
Thursday, May 22, 2008 - Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Hartford Seminary, 77 Sherman Street, Hartford
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Jelaluddin Rumi is the 13th century Sufi mystical poet, born in Afghanistan, who lived most of his life in what is now Turkey. A blending of profound spirit, philosophy and intellect with an extraordinary literary talent distinguishes Rumi as one of the world's great poets.
A "Rumi Night" is an intimate opportunity to hear Rumi's poetry read aloud, accompanied by the spontaneous playing of flute and percussion. When Sufis gather to sing, dance, and recite poetry, it is know as "Sema," a deep listening, a waking to a calling that is always there but difficult to hear in the busyness of our day. In this casual format, one often hears the poetry and music as if for the first time - receiving waves of impressions of new and deeper spiritual levels within Rumi's work.
Peter Rogen was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Grant to Study Voice and Speech in the American Theater, and performed Shakespeare with The Helen Hayes Equity Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) for several seasons. Moving to the business world, he founded an
international communications consultancy. Finally, Rogen returned to the arts, and to the study of Asian and Middle Eastern philosophies and
culture.
Steve Gorn has performed Indian Classical Music and new American Music on the bansuri bamboo flute, soprano saxophone and clarinet in
concerts and festivals throughout the world. In 2008, in addition to touring in India, he will direct the ensemble performing Teiji Ito’s musical accompaniment of Watermill, presented by the New York City Ballet as
part of the Jerome Robbins Retrospective.
Since childhood John deKadt has been tapping on everything imaginable including desks, chairs, pans, pots, rocks and bodies. Drawn to hand percussion instruments, he has been playing them for over 25 years. De Kadt plays drums from various world music traditions including an array of frame drums from India, the Middle East, Ireland and Brazil. He also plays the djembe and the junjun from Africa, and congas from Cuba. He appears on numerous recordings and performs regularly throughout the East Coast.
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For more information, contact Tubanur Yesilhark at (860) 509-9555 or events@hartsem.edu.
