<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e2e2ea23-73bc-4906-b676-0e37a774bb54/53D3978A-EC7B-4AF1-833D-FE2E1FB44E41/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml"><H1> Passion at the heart of Persian music </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/B4C0F2BF-0E5B-4AC9-B490-48C872DF8CE2" alt="Sidi Goma of the Rumi Ensemble" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml"><P class="story2">The Los Angeles concert was a stop on Nazeri's current world tour, which reaches the Barbican Centre in London this month. It consists of newly composed settings by Sharam's son Hafez of works by Rumi, the great mystical poet of Islam. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml">Eight hundred years after his birth in a corner of Afghanistan, Rumi's status as the world's favourite mystical poet is unshakeable.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml">There are swarms of websites containing "sayings of Rumi", and notebook-sized nuggets of his wisdom can be found on sale in hospital receptions and supermarket checkouts.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml"><P class="story2">The secret of Rumi's popularity is the way his poetry seems to leap over doctrinal differences between faiths, in an effort to capture the core of mystical experience. "What is to be done, O Muslims? For I do not recognise myself.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml">Shahram Nazeri's Sufi-inspired music is overwhelmingly popular in Iran: a recent four-concert series in Tehran drew a record crowd of 140,000. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2007/10/04/bmnazeri104.xml">The Passion of Rumi' is at the Barbican Centre, London</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/53D3978A-EC7B-4AF1-833D-FE2E1FB44E41/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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