Poetry | Rumi's deevané shō Intro
Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation
Chai & Conversation
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🗓️ 19 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this intro lesson for Rumi's deevāné shō, we go over the full poem with musician Fared Shafinury.
In addition, we learn about Fared and his project "Radif Retreat". In this particular lesson, we also dive into the musicality of the poem and how to interact with it rhythmically.
Watch Fared's performance of Rumi's beautiful poetry on his Persian After Hours performance, live at the Guggenheim.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Learn Persian with Chai and Conversation, Rumi's D. Von Esho, an here with Fadit Chafinuti to talk about a really lovely roomy poem, |
| 0:33.4 | Salam Fadit Jan. |
| 0:34.8 | Durud, dood, dorood. |
| 0:36.5 | For those of you who have been with us for a long time, |
| 0:39.3 | Fadid is a long, long, long time front of the show. |
| 0:42.8 | He wrote and composed our theme music. |
| 0:45.4 | We've done several poetry lessons together |
| 0:47.7 | and a lot of collaborations together. |
| 0:49.4 | So I'm excited after a few years of a hiatus |
| 0:52.8 | to be back doing this poetry lesson together. |
| 0:56.0 | So thank you so much for doing this. |
| 0:58.5 | It's good to be back, Leila. |
| 1:00.0 | It's good to be back with all of your lovely listeners. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, so we're calling this series. |
| 1:05.2 | This is the first of this series called the Radif Retreat series. |
| 1:08.3 | So first of all, tell us what is Radif Retreat? |
| 1:12.0 | Radif Retreat is my online school of classical Persian music. |
| 1:17.4 | It's the online institute of classical Persian music, |
| 1:20.5 | and we call it the Radif Retreat, |
| 1:23.2 | because Radif is the name of the immaculate collection of Persian rhythms and melodies |
| 1:31.1 | and a 12 series of modal system that we have. |
| 1:35.8 | And classical Persian music is at the heart of it. |
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