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The Great Night of Rumi 2007
Presenter
Poem, Author
Music
Dan Zola
Green Winged Longing
Gary - sarod
Arshad - tabla
Doug Von Koss

Mouse and Frog

Gary - sarod
Arshad - tabla
Maya Spector
Say I Am You
Arshad - santour
Sheldon - flute
Andre Andrae
Joseph
Sheldon - sax Arshad - tabla
Claude - hand drum
Debbie Golata
Morning Wind
Debbie - piano
Claude - bass
Sheldon - flute
Guillermo Oritz
Spilling the Rose Oil
Sheldon - clarinet
Gary - saz
Ron Sebring
The Lame Goat
Gary - sarod
Claressa Morrow
What Hurst the Soul
Gary - Yaili Tambour
Aziz
The Turn
Claude - hand drum
Arshad - tabla
Sheldon - clarinet
Gary - oud
Hossein - vocal
Intermission
Dan Zola

Love Dogs

Randy - didge
Claude - oud
Alexis Bennett
Spiritual Window Shoppers
Arshad - tabla
Sheldon - clarinet
Kirsten Falke
You Are Song
Mariah - piano
Claude -bass
Sheldon - flute
Chetana Karel
The Reed Flute
Sheldon - flute
Barry Spector
Die Before You Die
Gary - tar hoo
Doug Von Koss
I'm Here By the Gate
Gary - saz
Arshad - tabla
Claude - oud
Sheldon - clarinet
Kirsten Falke
One Night
Dale - piano
Gary - mandolin
Sheldon - flute
Arshad - tabla
Claude - bass
 
The Great Night of Soul Poetry 2006
Presenter
Poem, Author
Music
Dan Zola
Hay for the Horses
Gary Snyder
flute, drum, oud
Doug Von Koss
I Have Walked, Its Possible, Portrait,
Antonio Machado
Jump Rope, Tom Hansen
flute, drum, oud (separately)
Chetana Karel
Manners of 1918
Elizabeth Bishop
accordion
Maya Spector
When Death Comes
Mary Oliver
santour, oud
Barry Spector
My Father Went to Funerals
Howard Nelson
oud
Carolyn Zola
Catnip
Jon Carroll
sax
Kirsten Falke
Sigh No More*
Shakespeare
accordion
Hari Meyers
Dog
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
sax and bass
Aurelio Viscarrra
Luce Blu
Lisa Schola Prosek
piano
(composed by Lisa Schola Prosek)
Claressa Morrow
Clydene’s Poem
Clydene Von Koss
santour
Intermission
Roger Housden

Mindful, Mary Oliver
Grammar, Tony Hoagland
Happiness, Stephen Dunn
Poetry, Pablo Neruda

flute, oud, drum
Guillermo Ortiz
Wilderness
Carl Sandburg
clarinet and percussion
Chetana Karel
Moonrise*
DH Lawrence
accordion
Carolyn Zola
Happiness
Jane Kenyon
santour, oud, frame drum
Alexis Bennett
A Contribution to Statistics
Wislawa Szymborska
clarinet, oud
Le Pham Le
Time's Essence
Le Pham Le

(translated by Nancy Arbuthnot)
flute
Kirsten Falke
Shy Star*
James Joyce
accordion
Larry Robinson
Beannacht
John O’Donohugh
santour
Dale Zola
and audience
One Night*
Rumi

(translated by Coleman Barks)
 
The Great Night of Soul Poetry 2005
Presenter
Poem
Music
Dan
 With Kit, Age 7, at the Beach
Oud, tabla, flute
Richard
Song of Wandering Aengus
Oud
Chet
St Francis and the Sow
Oud, tabla, bass flute
Maya
Aging Poems
Oud
La Tonya
The Country
Tabla, clarinet
Richard
Shy Star
Piano
Carolyn
Rites of Manhood
Sax
Guillermo
Child Development
Bass Clarinet
Aurelio
The Waking
Accordion
Le Pham Le
 When the Last Leaf Falls
Flute
Larry
Mad Farmer's Manifesto
Oud, tabla, flute
Aurelio
Tenderness
Accordion
Barry
Antilamentation
Tabla
Bo
Last Night
Accordion
Chet
Ritual to Be Read To Each Other
Oud
Richard
Dialogue of Self and Soul
Oud, tabla, flute
Carolyn
Boy & His Mom At the Nutcracker
Accordion
Jocelyn
Come Into Animal Presence
Bass clarinet, oud
Larry
Beginners
Oud, tabla, flute
Dale
One Night
All instuments
 
The Great Night of Rumi 2004
Presenter
Poem
Dan Zola
A Bonfire at Midnight
Carolyn Zola
Many Wines
Cheta Karel
Night Thieves
Hari Mayers
White Cow
Judith Closson
Surprise of Roses
Maya Spector
The Old Woman of Kabul
Bo Srey
Float, Trust, Enjoy
Ruthann Lovetang
Hoopoe
Dale Zola
Green Winged Longing and more
Chetana Karel
Reed Flute
Carolyn Zola
Necessary Autumn
Rumi in Farsi
Dr. Nedvar
Joclyn Truitt
The Music We Are
Hari Mayers
King’s Falcon
Maya Spector
Solomon and more
Dan and Dale Zola
Guest House
 

All poems by Jelaluddin Rumi. Translated by Coleman Barks
Michael Davis: Flute
Brad Van Cleave: Tabla
Claude Palmer: Oud

 
The Great Night of Soul Poetry 2004
Presenter
Poem, Author
Chetana Karel
Yellow Glove
by Naomi Shihab Nye
Maya Spector
A Tree Speaks of Orpheus
by Denise Levertov
Barry Spector
All Souls
by May Sarton
Carolyn Zola
Anti- War Poems
by Berolt Brecht
Ruthann Lovetang
West Wind # 2
by Mary Oliver
Sung and Music by
Dale Zola
Ecstasy by Hayden Carruth
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
The Journey by David Whyte
Bo Srey
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
by WB Yeats
Dan Zola
Dialogue of Self and Soul
by WB Yeats
LaTanya Carmichael
Passengers
by Billy Collins
Guillermo Ortiz
Hamlet by Frank Loesser (from the album The Sensational Betty Hutton)
Kim Rosen
Poetry
by Pablo Neruda
Aurelio Viscarra
Whales Weep Not
by DH Lawrence
Ruthann Lovetang
Tabla Talk by Brad van Cleave
Peonies by Mary Oliver
Larry Robinson
Philoctetes
by Sophocles
Athena Katsaros
Keeping Quiet
by Pablo Neruda
Barry Spector
Forgetfulness
by Billy Collins
Chetana Karel
Directions
by Joseph Stoud
Judith Closson
Love After Love
by Derek Wollcott
Roger Housden
Do you love this life? By Mary Oliver Kindness by Naomi Shihab
Nye; Last Night as I Lay Sleeping by Antonia Machado, translated by R. Bly Love After Love by Derek Wolcott
Music by Dale Zola
One Night
by Rumi
 
Ernie Mansfield: Flute, EWI, and Clarinet
Brad Van Cleave: Tabla
Claude Palmer: Oud
Burke Schuchmann: Cello
Sharon Walters; Accordion
 
The Great Night of Rumi 2003
Poems by Jelaluddin Rumi
Translations by Coleman Barks unless otherwise indicated
Presenter
Poem
Dan Zola
A Song of Being Empty
Halim Shayek
The Reed Flute’s Song
(in the original Farsi)
Chetana Karel
The Reed Flute’s Song
Doug von Koss
For 50 Years, We Came Whirling*, Walking Out of The Treasury Building and other quatrains
Maya Spector
Twenty Small Graves and quatrains
Carolyn Zola
The Pear Tree
Dale Zola
A Green Winged Longing and other quatrains
Ruthann Lovetang
What Hurts the Soul
Sharane Paley
The Music We Are
Uma Schaef
That Temple Solomon Built and selections from The Mathnawi**
Athena Katsaros
The Silent Articulation of a Face
Roger Housden
Zero Circle and That We Have Now
Doug von Koss
Quatrains, Spiritual Window Shoppers
 
* translated by Daniel Liebert, ** translated by Nicholson
 
Musicians:
Claude Palmer on oud
Brad van Cleave on tabla
Ernie Mansfield on flute and clarinet
Randy Rood on didgeridoo and guitar

 
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