Chanticleer Performance Based on Dr. Majid Naini's Selections and Translations of Rumi

March 21, 2009 - PRLog -- Award-winning American composer Shawn Crouch's new work, The Garden of Paradise is being performed by the Grammy award winning Chanticleer group in the San Francisco Bay area March 17 through 23 in Berkeley, Santa Clara University, and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The piece is based on the poems of poet Brian Turner, an Iraq war veteran, whose moving accounts of the war are set along side the poetry of the 13th century Persian poet Rumi, as selected from among 80,000 lines of poetry and translated by Professor Majid M. Naini, leading Rumi scholar. This is a remarkable cultural bridge between civilizations.