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Redwood Library and Athenaeum
50 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI
Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Regarded as the crown jewel in Persian culture, Persian
literature has profoundly influenced the literature of regional
powers including Ottoman Turkey and Muslim India as well as
eminent Western men of literature such as Goethe and Emerson.
Drawing on the work being undertaken at the Center for Iranian
Studies at Columbia University, Mohsen Ashtiany,
research scholar and associate editor of the Encyclopaedia
Iranica, will lecture on the classical era of Persian
poetry (800-1500), drawn from the volume by the same title, to
be published shortly. His remarks will focus on
Hafez of Shiraz, the beloved Persian poet,
considered the greatest writer of ghazals, short lyrical
poems (similar to Shakespeare’s Sonnets) — a form
which he perfected. He will illustrate the vital role Hafez and
the poetic form of the ghazal played within the rich tapestry of
Persian literature.
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Newport Art Museum,
76 Bellevue Avenue
Newport, RI
Saturday, September 29, 2018, 7:30 – 9:30 PM
Opera selections will be performed by rising opera stars in a
vocal program drawn from opera favorites, reflective of the
experience and atmospherics within Persian gardens — their
shade, fragrance, textures and colors of plantings, the
interplay of water and light, and the songs of birds in the
trees. Concert developed by Dona D. Vaughn,
Artistic Director, Maine Opera, and Robert
Sirota, Composer. The program will feature the
World Premiere of “Hafez Songs based on the
Poems of Hafez”, Robert
Sirota, Composer, commissioned by Palladium
Musicum, Inc. for the occasion.
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